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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9266156" data-attributes="member: 7044704">That's a reasonable assumption.On a related note, I very nearly bounced off Evil Hat's Scum &amp; Villainy when I first got it.&nbsp; Had bought it with an eye toward reading and maybe running it during a vacation where I knew I'd be offline for a couple of weeks.&nbsp; It was what I'd expected from Blades In the Dark and I liked the setting, but when I went to try a simple run I realized (after twenty minutes of flipping back and forth and index hunting thinking I was missing something) there were no character sheets anywhere in the rulebook.&nbsp; You have to go online to download them.&nbsp; And those character (and starship) sheets include vital details about game mechanics that you cannot reverse engineer from just reading the rules, so you can't simply work around them being inaccessible with a paper and pencil.Don't do that, publishers.&nbsp; If you print a book, it needs to be usable without internet access.&nbsp; No excuses.Ordinarily would have just been an annoyance, but under the circumstances I've never had a book come closer to winding up in a campfire.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9266156, member: 7044704"] That's a reasonable assumption. On a related note, I very nearly bounced off Evil Hat's Scum & Villainy when I first got it. Had bought it with an eye toward reading and maybe running it during a vacation where I knew I'd be offline for a couple of weeks. It was what I'd expected from Blades In the Dark and I liked the setting, but when I went to try a simple run I realized (after twenty minutes of flipping back and forth and index hunting thinking I was missing something) there were no character sheets anywhere in the rulebook. You have to go online to download them. And those character (and starship) sheets include vital details about game mechanics that you cannot reverse engineer from just reading the rules, so you can't simply work around them being inaccessible with a paper and pencil. Don't do that, publishers. If you print a book, it needs to be usable without internet access. No excuses. Ordinarily would have just been an annoyance, but under the circumstances I've never had a book come closer to winding up in a campfire. [/QUOTE]

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