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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8793131" data-attributes="member: 6799660">I think WotC/Hasbro would be leaving a huge amount of good money on the table* if they were unwilling to continue to print out their game rules in dead-tree format. I don't see that changing unless some new and radical change to how people experience the written word sweeps through successfully**.*the one thing I inherently trust them not to do. **and while both decent enough successes in their own right, neither books-on-tape/soundfile nor e-readers actually did a good job of making people not buy books, showing good examples of attempts at such a thing that did not succeed.Mind you, if 60%+ of gamers start using digital systems to engage with the game, that could influence the design decisions  towards rules and mechanics which are easy to do on a computer interface but cumbersome or annoying with pencil an paper. I'm not overly scared of that for D&D, since 5e is honestly quite a bit less like that than previous editions of D&D* or many of the games of the 80s and 90s (where I guess the cumbersomeness was part of the challenge). The most I can imagine 5e or successive iterations derived from it doing along this trend would be having more and more 'Prof Bonus times per Long Rest' mechanics to be tracked, but even that really is 'notepad/sticky note tracking'-level complexity, not really 'cumbersome in a non-digital format.'*3e, where suffering 3 points of temporary dexterity damage or running into an opponent with a brilliant energy weapon who catches you flat-footed will send you poring through your derived bonuses and checking the types on all your AC score components**GURPS and the like mostly just work best with a spreadsheet during character creation/advancement, but something like Hero System, where END expenditures (for powers, or even swinging a fist) is based on Active cost of abilities which can be boosted or diminished greatly benefits from excel and a calculator during-play (to say nothing of any open-ended power frameworks or the like). </blockquote>

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