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<blockquote data-quote="sckeener" data-source="post: 1770941" data-attributes="member: 8801"><p><strong>PDF vs Hardcopy</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First, I would love the price to be lower, but I would also love for the price of the hardcover to be lower. </p><p></p><p>The reason I am willing to pay the same price is because they have different advantages. </p><p></p><p>The main advantage of PDFs is copy&paste and searching. Why reinvent the wheel when I can cut & paste? Why spend minutes searching for some rule in a hardcopy when it is a click away?</p><p></p><p>With PDFs, I can have several books open to pages I need without taking up the space at the game table. I can have adventure maps or monsters open in front of me and my players have no clue (my screen is turned away from them.) </p><p></p><p>I have the entire second story of my house for gaming, but it is easier as a player and as a DM having all the books at my finger tips. Frequently I find the 'needed' info faster than the rest of the gaming group. They are limited to what they can bring in their bags and cars. They are limited to what books are at the house where we are gaming. With PDFs, you are limited only by computer storage space (Hard Drive, CDs, USB drives, external drives, etc) and computer. Obviously a laptop is a nice plus. Though many PDAs can now display PDFs.</p><p></p><p>For those that think the DRM is a limiting factor...I have my pdfs on 2 pcs that I use, one is my work laptop (shhh!) and the other is at home. You can have the PDFs on multiple machines. I believe the limit is 10 computers (usually,) but the pdf is tied to an account. I can print the document. I can copy and paste. And for Frostburn, I can comment the PDF (most at drivethrurpg PDFs can't be commented.) </p><p></p><p>If you have a laptop or a desktop near the gaming group, I highly recommend getting PDFs of your gaming books. Currently I am runing an Old empires game for FR. The party is currently in Unther. <u>Ancient Kingdoms: Mesopotamia </u>PDF from drivethrurpg is wonderful. I have been cutting and pasting from that book and it is helping my home game with a Summerian feel!</p><p></p><p>Ok...wife is calling. got to go. Those are my major pluses. I could do a lot of those things with hardcopies (I in fact have hardcopies of all my pdfs,) but it takes too much of my time to enter all the information I want for my game. Almost everyone I know has house rules for their game. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take the text of the rule books modify it for your game without having to type in every word? How many hardcopy books have good indexes? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do word searches?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sckeener, post: 1770941, member: 8801"] [b]PDF vs Hardcopy[/b] First, I would love the price to be lower, but I would also love for the price of the hardcover to be lower. The reason I am willing to pay the same price is because they have different advantages. The main advantage of PDFs is copy&paste and searching. Why reinvent the wheel when I can cut & paste? Why spend minutes searching for some rule in a hardcopy when it is a click away? With PDFs, I can have several books open to pages I need without taking up the space at the game table. I can have adventure maps or monsters open in front of me and my players have no clue (my screen is turned away from them.) I have the entire second story of my house for gaming, but it is easier as a player and as a DM having all the books at my finger tips. Frequently I find the 'needed' info faster than the rest of the gaming group. They are limited to what they can bring in their bags and cars. They are limited to what books are at the house where we are gaming. With PDFs, you are limited only by computer storage space (Hard Drive, CDs, USB drives, external drives, etc) and computer. Obviously a laptop is a nice plus. Though many PDAs can now display PDFs. For those that think the DRM is a limiting factor...I have my pdfs on 2 pcs that I use, one is my work laptop (shhh!) and the other is at home. You can have the PDFs on multiple machines. I believe the limit is 10 computers (usually,) but the pdf is tied to an account. I can print the document. I can copy and paste. And for Frostburn, I can comment the PDF (most at drivethrurpg PDFs can't be commented.) If you have a laptop or a desktop near the gaming group, I highly recommend getting PDFs of your gaming books. Currently I am runing an Old empires game for FR. The party is currently in Unther. [U]Ancient Kingdoms: Mesopotamia [/U]PDF from drivethrurpg is wonderful. I have been cutting and pasting from that book and it is helping my home game with a Summerian feel! Ok...wife is calling. got to go. Those are my major pluses. I could do a lot of those things with hardcopies (I in fact have hardcopies of all my pdfs,) but it takes too much of my time to enter all the information I want for my game. Almost everyone I know has house rules for their game. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take the text of the rule books modify it for your game without having to type in every word? How many hardcopy books have good indexes? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do word searches? [/QUOTE]
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