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I hate pdfs, and I'm happy that WOTC primarily publishes Books
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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8515720" data-attributes="member: 6879661"><p>to be honest I like both but for different reasons.</p><p></p><p>1./ If I’m referring to a text regularly in game - a complicated campaign book with various appendixes and tables - or a core book for a new game, then I do like a book. I can flip through and stick book marks etc and generally have it to hand.</p><p></p><p>2./ For <strong>EVERYTHING</strong> else I prefer pdf. I owned at one point hundreds of D&D books. Weighed down by a half dozen of them every time I travelled the three hours by train to go to my monthly game weekend. Now I never carry more than one book.</p><p></p><p>PDFs are easier to use for Roll20 to screen capture maps and art.</p><p></p><p>PDFs don’t get tea spilled on them</p><p></p><p>PDFs don’t get lost or lent out and not returned</p><p></p><p>PDFs don’t weigh anything</p><p></p><p>PDF’s are cheaper</p><p></p><p>PDFs are accessible in a way that books aren’t through DriveThruRPG etc.</p><p></p><p>I can have two hundred PDFs on my laptop and pull them up in an instant if I need to check something or find some inspiration.</p><p></p><p>When I’m writing or adapting an adventure, I use PDFs in a way, I never would with books.</p><p></p><p>£95 for a print copy of Volo’s Guide to the Dalelands or $9.99 on DriveThru for the pdf. No contest. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷🏻♂️" title="Man shrugging: light skin tone :man_shrugging_tone1:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fb-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone1:" /></p><p></p><p>The good news was that I sold my 200 hard copy D&D books on eBay for more than I paid for them to. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😜" title="Winking face with tongue :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61c.png" data-shortname=":stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="💰" title="Money bag :moneybag:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f4b0.png" data-shortname=":moneybag:" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="💰" title="Money bag :moneybag:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f4b0.png" data-shortname=":moneybag:" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="💰" title="Money bag :moneybag:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f4b0.png" data-shortname=":moneybag:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 8515720, member: 6879661"] to be honest I like both but for different reasons. 1./ If I’m referring to a text regularly in game - a complicated campaign book with various appendixes and tables - or a core book for a new game, then I do like a book. I can flip through and stick book marks etc and generally have it to hand. 2./ For [B]EVERYTHING[/B] else I prefer pdf. I owned at one point hundreds of D&D books. Weighed down by a half dozen of them every time I travelled the three hours by train to go to my monthly game weekend. Now I never carry more than one book. PDFs are easier to use for Roll20 to screen capture maps and art. PDFs don’t get tea spilled on them PDFs don’t get lost or lent out and not returned PDFs don’t weigh anything PDF’s are cheaper PDFs are accessible in a way that books aren’t through DriveThruRPG etc. I can have two hundred PDFs on my laptop and pull them up in an instant if I need to check something or find some inspiration. When I’m writing or adapting an adventure, I use PDFs in a way, I never would with books. £95 for a print copy of Volo’s Guide to the Dalelands or $9.99 on DriveThru for the pdf. No contest. 🤷🏻♂️ The good news was that I sold my 200 hard copy D&D books on eBay for more than I paid for them to. 😜 💰 💰 💰 [/QUOTE]
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