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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9229940" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Fair enough. Though with the DDB app on a smart phone or tablet, the site can go down or internet can go down and you'll still have access to your books and characters. For convention play, I still find it easier to have a high-capacity charging brick to keep my phone/tablet charged than to lug around a bunch of books.&nbsp; For my &quot;home&quot; game, I have to run it remotely with a VTT.&nbsp; So even if I had the physical books, loss of internet would mean no Discord and no Foundry, so DDB is the least of my worries. The best of both worlds is to run games from my home, where I have my bookshelves, battlemaps, and minis easily accessible. DDB and Foundry (with a community mod) both allow printing character sheets to PDF for printing to paper. So there would be no reason for me not to avail myself of the conveniences provided by digital tools as I would have analog backups at the ready. Unfortunately, my work situation makes running games regularly from my home impossible. I've never had a game cancelled because of DDB going down though. The issue has always been a player having a computer or internet issues, but so long as they have a phone I can switch to Google Meet so that they can call into a telephone number.&nbsp; If the internet and all mobile telephone services are down--well, I think there are bigger issues that warrant cancelling the session.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9229940, member: 6796661"] Fair enough. Though with the DDB app on a smart phone or tablet, the site can go down or internet can go down and you'll still have access to your books and characters. For convention play, I still find it easier to have a high-capacity charging brick to keep my phone/tablet charged than to lug around a bunch of books. For my "home" game, I have to run it remotely with a VTT. So even if I had the physical books, loss of internet would mean no Discord and no Foundry, so DDB is the least of my worries. The best of both worlds is to run games from my home, where I have my bookshelves, battlemaps, and minis easily accessible. DDB and Foundry (with a community mod) both allow printing character sheets to PDF for printing to paper. So there would be no reason for me not to avail myself of the conveniences provided by digital tools as I would have analog backups at the ready. Unfortunately, my work situation makes running games regularly from my home impossible. I've never had a game cancelled because of DDB going down though. The issue has always been a player having a computer or internet issues, but so long as they have a phone I can switch to Google Meet so that they can call into a telephone number. If the internet and all mobile telephone services are down--well, I think there are bigger issues that warrant cancelling the session. [/QUOTE]

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