How would you like to see a PDF version of Dragon/Dungeon

[Plane Sailing]

Being in the UK, I'd love to get Dungeon or Dragon in pdf. It's possible to get it over here, with either a lot of searching, or extortionate export fees, but a pdf would make it much more viable. I've got a subscription now anyhow (having found somewhere where it's not hugely overpriced), but a pdf would make it a lot more accessible internationally.

ditto. In the UK I'll not risk a subscription to Dragon/Dungeon because of problems in the past (and even if it works well, the delay is too great). But a subscription to Dungeon PDFs I'd take up like a shot.

 

[Herobizkit]

Having Dungeon in a .pdf format seems the most likely route the magazine should take. Adventures are so much more useful when you don't have to thumb back and forth through the magazine to reference maps, npc's and so on.

Dragon Magazine... meh. I say give the world the .pdf if that's what they want, but I'd go with the print format if I bought a subscription today.

 

[Staffan]

I'd love to get Dragon and Dungeon in PDF format, as long as the price is significantly lower than the print price.

Print is $7, right? Then $4 or so would be a nice price point for a PDF.

 

[Hussar]

For Dragon, I want a print copy only. It is reference material and reading material to me.

For Dungeon, I would much prefer a PDF copy. I do far too much with my adventures, and a text-friendly PDF version of Dungeon would make it all possible. Further, all the side articles (the non-adventure pieces) would be great as a colelction, and a clean PDF would let me make my own compliations of each.

Wut he said.

As a subscriber to Dragon from Japan, I know the pain of waiting for issues. By the time it gets to me, it's usually two months behind. Gotta love overseas bulk mail. OTOH, in almost two years, I have only had one issue lost in the mail. My replacement issue came in about a week and the lost issue came about a month after that. Sorry, wasn't lost in the mail, but, three months late. When the later issue came first, I just figured it was lost.

A text friendly pdf of dungeon would be groovy though. I do all my gaming online, so, being able to cut and paste into my chat platform would save loads of work.

 

[Yair]

I subscribed to Dragon, once. It was hugely expensive, as I live abroad. About a 1/3 of the journals never made it. Those that did arrive arrived very late. I did not renew my subscription.

PDFs also save on shelf space. I don't particularly like storing magazines (though, oddly, I like collecting books).

Right now I'm not interested much in D&D and hence Dragon. But if I were to renew my interest - and I suspect that I will, I'm just having a slump - I'll want a pdf only subscription, or none at all.

 

[delericho]

I voted "Other".

I'm in favour of a pdf-only subscription, but not yet. I'm not yet comfortable with reading large amounts of material from a screen, and although I have to do so for work, I won't do so by choice. That being the case, I'll take the dead tree edition.

That said, I would quite like to see pdf compilations* of back issues made available at a reasonable cost, so I can replace all those back issues with electronic copies (since I reference them so rarely). And, in a few years time, once they've perfected the technology, I'll be ready for the switch to a pdf subscription.

* The product I'm looking for is a companion to the old Dragon Compendium CDs, but covering Dragon 251 and on, and Dungeon since the beginning of 3e. I am specifically looking to replace my old issues with electronic versions, but only if the cost of doing so is reasonable, which buying the issues individually will never be.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I'd pay a little more per issue to have access to a downloadable PDF version while I wait for my print copy to reach Australia.

 

[sckeener]

As for pirate copies, I have no problem with my copies being watermarked as drivethrurpg.com does provided I can still delete pages etc... from the file (which drivethrurpg.com does not allow you to do).

Paizo already watermarks and the Dragon/Dungeon articles are seperated into different files.

 

[sckeener]

If you are interested in rolling your own (have access to a high speed scanner and have a receipt), I discussed the legalities of doing it, here

Basically for those in the US, it comes down to having and keeping the receipt.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

For the average reading I prefer the print version. There are, howver, some articles that a PDF would be of great benefit.

As a player and not a DM I only get Dragon. If there is a feat or a PrC that I am going to be using it would be nice to have a copy of the page with my character (and keep the actual magazine with the rest of te collection) or have DMs able to print out maps or an advanture out of Dungeon.

For these reasons I voted "print but PDF available".