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Message: <blockquote data-quote="im_robertb" data-source="post: 5095559" data-attributes="member: 60909">Power Cards: I make power cards for all my PCs using Magic Set Editor. With legal PDFs, I can copy and paste the text from the PDF to MSE, saving me a lot of prepwork. I could also do this with Insider, but that's a monthly fee rather than a one-time payment. With a book, I have to have it on my lap while manually typing the information in.Cheat Sheets: For race, class, paragon path, and epic destiny features, as well as feats, I make cheat sheets for my PCs with full rules text and page references. Again, I'd rather copy and paste from a legal PDF than pay monthly for Insider or type from a book in my lap.Nintendo Wii: We play in my living room, where the Wii is hooked up to the TV. With email or an SD card, you can put images on your Wii and open them up with the Image Channel, thus displaying them on your TV. Then you or your players can point and zoom in with the Wiimote. This has been a tremendous help for showing dungeon maps and helping the PCs discuss where to go next. It's even better for combats: I can skip giving a visual description of every monster, because, with legal PDFs, I can copy the image out of the PDF, put the monsters together in one image, and put it up on the Wii. Since we use placeholder tokens (cardstock chits with a letter for monster type and each individual with its own number), I can indicate which image is for which letter too. This allows the PCs to refer to the screen instead of asking me, speeding up the game. Insider doesn't help me with this. In this respect, illegal PDFs are actually superior to buying the book, though legal PDFs would be better still. Now I'm not condoning piracy, but I realize, as Apple did, that the best way to beat pirates is to make your service better than theirs.</blockquote>

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