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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8746418" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't have any physical books for 5E myself (my players/fellow DMs do though), everything is on Beyond. Which I fully expect to vanish one day, taking my books with it (I'm sure some kind soul will have uploaded them to the internets by then though).I think a lot of people are knee-jerk rejecting the subscription, and whilst I get it, the main way I accessed 4E was by subscription to the DDI, and because the price was reasonable, I actually found it pretty great. People talk about outages and computers failing and so on, but we played with the DDI for rules for years at various people's houses and that was never once a problem. I don't think it was ever down for a significant period.As for &quot;D&amp;D whilst camping&quot;, what, you're hauling a PHB, DMG and MM, at a dead minimum, with you in your backpack when you're camping? And dice, and character sheets to get damp and bent and maybe if things get really exciting, catch fire? God help us if you use minis or battlemaps!Pull the other one mate, it's got bells on! If you're glamping or car-camping you've likely got power and signal and thus could use digital. Though I admit in America is easier to get outside signal coverage entirely.But realistically I simply wouldn't take D&amp;D camping. I'd take an RPG that was appropriate for that, like, y'know, Dungeon World. All the fun of D&amp;D, more accessible than even 5E, weighs maybe 1/10th as much, takes up about 1/10th as much space, and doesn't need anywhere near as much in the way of dice, and is pure TotM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8746418, member: 18"] I don't have any physical books for 5E myself (my players/fellow DMs do though), everything is on Beyond. Which I fully expect to vanish one day, taking my books with it (I'm sure some kind soul will have uploaded them to the internets by then though). I think a lot of people are knee-jerk rejecting the subscription, and whilst I get it, the main way I accessed 4E was by subscription to the DDI, and because the price was reasonable, I actually found it pretty great. People talk about outages and computers failing and so on, but we played with the DDI for rules for years at various people's houses and that was never once a problem. I don't think it was ever down for a significant period. As for "D&D whilst camping", what, you're hauling a PHB, DMG and MM, at a dead minimum, with you in your backpack when you're camping? And dice, and character sheets to get damp and bent and maybe if things get really exciting, catch fire? God help us if you use minis or battlemaps! Pull the other one mate, it's got bells on! If you're glamping or car-camping you've [I]likely[/I] got power and signal and thus could use digital. Though I admit in America is easier to get outside signal coverage entirely. But realistically I simply wouldn't take D&D camping. I'd take an RPG that was appropriate for that, like, y'know, [I]Dungeon World[/I]. All the fun of D&D, more accessible than even 5E, weighs maybe 1/10th as much, takes up about 1/10th as much space, and doesn't need anywhere near as much in the way of dice, and is pure TotM. [/QUOTE]

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