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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5879446" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>I had a bit of a rude awakening regarding how much the gaming public as a whole (not just the readers of ENWorld) know about the legalities of D&D and d20.</p><p></p><p>Those of you with an iProduct, go on to the App Store sometime, search for SRD and look at the handful of d20 SRD products there are. . .</p><p></p><p>. . .then read the reviews.</p><p></p><p>Pretty much every app has a number of bad reviews. There are plenty of angry, griping complaints that they lack the content of the Complete Books, or PHB II, or Spell Compendium. </p><p></p><p>One person made their review a savage assault on how the app in question only had rules for D&D 3.5, and they were only giving it 2 stars because it didn't include anything at all from 4th Edition and wondered why app makers almost all the apps for 3.5e and not 4e (almost all 4e apps are just a character sheet app, besides one interface to connect to the DDI Compendium). </p><p></p><p>I saw one review get a one-star app because it only had dry rules text, without all the flavor text and pictures from the rulebooks.</p><p></p><p>Now, to be fair, those apps also had lots of positive reviews and ratings, but it was very clear that a lot of fans out there don't understand even the foggiest bit of how the SRD and OGL work.</p><p></p><p>ENWorld readers are going to be significantly above the average in terms of comprehending this, since we have publishers who rely on being accurate with this knowledge, and ENWorld as a whole is built around 3rd party products and information. . .but it seemed to really remind me that there are lots of D&D fans who don't know the difference.</p><p></p><p>I've been trying to pick a good SRD app to keep on my own iPad. The free version of Scry seems very good, but it's got a few curious omissions (like the Vampire template). Is there an app that my fellow ENWorlders have determined is better than the others?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 5879446, member: 14159"] I had a bit of a rude awakening regarding how much the gaming public as a whole (not just the readers of ENWorld) know about the legalities of D&D and d20. Those of you with an iProduct, go on to the App Store sometime, search for SRD and look at the handful of d20 SRD products there are. . . . . .then read the reviews. Pretty much every app has a number of bad reviews. There are plenty of angry, griping complaints that they lack the content of the Complete Books, or PHB II, or Spell Compendium. One person made their review a savage assault on how the app in question only had rules for D&D 3.5, and they were only giving it 2 stars because it didn't include anything at all from 4th Edition and wondered why app makers almost all the apps for 3.5e and not 4e (almost all 4e apps are just a character sheet app, besides one interface to connect to the DDI Compendium). I saw one review get a one-star app because it only had dry rules text, without all the flavor text and pictures from the rulebooks. Now, to be fair, those apps also had lots of positive reviews and ratings, but it was very clear that a lot of fans out there don't understand even the foggiest bit of how the SRD and OGL work. ENWorld readers are going to be significantly above the average in terms of comprehending this, since we have publishers who rely on being accurate with this knowledge, and ENWorld as a whole is built around 3rd party products and information. . .but it seemed to really remind me that there are lots of D&D fans who don't know the difference. I've been trying to pick a good SRD app to keep on my own iPad. The free version of Scry seems very good, but it's got a few curious omissions (like the Vampire template). Is there an app that my fellow ENWorlders have determined is better than the others? [/QUOTE]
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