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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8515440" data-attributes="member: 18">Re: 1. Physical vs PDF.I'm British, I live in London, and I'm not incredibly wealthy (despite earning a hell of a lot more than average for the UK), so I love the idea of physical books, but I just absolutely do not have the space for them. If I was five-ten years older and/or got into the housing market earlier, I suspect this wouldn't be an issue.So not having PDFs or some other digital format for me would be a huge problem. Luckily we've got DNDBeyond for now, which is actually more legible/usable, in app-book form than PDFs are, so that's cool.However, I do need a digital format, and I'm really hoping DNDBeyond does give us a permanent digital format eventually, otherwise well, I guess my 5E material will vanish at some point. I don't buy things in physical formats any more. Especially not as I'd have to buy them twice with D&D, once to have and once digitally to work with online character sheets and so on.Note that I do have a 15" transforming laptop which can turn into a massive tablet, which is how I read most RPG books these days. Getting this was part of what allowed me to move fully to digital.Re: 3. Electronic devices.We've used laptops at the table since we've had laptops, so like, since the 1990s. We used electronic devices a ton before as well. I don't anticipate that changing. Probably the most "physical" we ever got was actually 4E, because it required a battlemat even more than 3.XE, and so we had a battlemat, counters, pens, tokens, cards for tracking initiative, etc. - But we kept all the characters in the DDI (so they are now lost forever <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> ).(As an aside, people seem to have got over being distracted by their mobiles, for the most part - when they were shiny and new, they were definitely distraction to the iPhone owners particularly, but now people seem much more capable of actually ignoring them for a few hours and/or identifying anything they actually need to respond to rather than trying to respond to everything).</blockquote>

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