Question for PDF users

[Mark CMG]

Hey everybody! A question for those of you who purchase and use roleplaying PDFs.

Do you:

A) Refer to them only in hardcopy?

B) Refer to them onscreen only?

C) Refer to them in both formats?

Your unscientific, anecdotal evidence will be received with utmost gratitude.

C but mostly B.

 

[Bobitron]

I would say mostly onscreen, but if there is something I'm getting heavy use of, especially rules, I'll print it. Much easier to reference something in print, especially in a face-to-face environment. In play-by-post I'm happy to have it in pdf only, makes it easy to cut and paste.

 

[Alensande]

C for me, though mostly B.

I share the house with another DM. He gets the hard copy books and anything from Paizo, I get pdfs and EnWorld...not a bad split . I really like having the docs available on my laptop whenever I get the sudden need to work through a new encounter, and I tend to cut-n-paste what I need for game night.

 

[RobinDLaws]

Hey, I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I saw that "Robin's Laws" is available on PDF

http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG82-3002

Hooray!

Hijacking my thread in order to plug my work?!? The nerve of some people!

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http://www.livejournal.com/users/robin_d_laws/

 

[DanMcS]

Mostly onscreen only. I don't use the majority of any product, really, save core rulebooks, so pdfs are great. I make a notecard of the one spell from the pdf-book I'll be using that day and don't have a big book taking up my limited shelf space.

 

[Henrix]

C

If it's something I want to use at the game table, or want to read thoroughly, I print it out (generally b&w).

 

[BSF]

Strictly speaking, C.

But most of my use is onscreen rather than print. I do a fair amount of prep using PDFs only. I even tend to refer to the SRD more often than the actual harbound core books.

 

[D_Sinclair]

B. onscreen is just so easy when you know what your software is capable of. I stay late at work once every couple weeks in order to index all my PDFs. It's kind of tedious, copying everything off my laptop to a computer at work, indexing, then copying the index to my laptop, but it is worth it. If I want to find something, I just type in the search term in Acrobat and it tells me what file and page has the reference, provides a brief contect (like google does), and clicking on the link opens the PDF to the page of the reference.

Looking stuff up has gone from taking 10-15 minutes or more to all of 15 seconds.

 

[devilbat]

C. I print what I need for each session.

 

[Pinotage]

B. Only use them on screen, but then, my PC is my gaming table! PbP games! Yay!

Pinotage