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<blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 2517252" data-attributes="member: 9213">C) Both. There are PDF's that I print out and have coil bound at Kinkos. Then if I'm working on something like character creation and I need to refernce something quickly and I only have my Powerbook available then I refer to it onscreen. Mostly though for me, how/why PDF's are used comes down to two factors. For the past two years I've had to donate a great deal of role-playing games and suppliments to my local library, due to space constraints in our apt. PDF's dont present those issues. I used to buy a fair amount of hard copy RPG materials, now 95% of my purchases over the past year have been PDF's.The second is the share factor. If I have a book that I want to loan to my players or that gets referred to around the table I can print out and coil bind one the book in question and not really care if it gets the crap kicked out of it. Or not worry about making notes in the margins, this is especially useful with adventures/modules. Or even when I want to give the players hand outs or show them what certain areas look like, or create player versions of map's from the maps in the books, It's alot easier to do that with PDF's and Photoshop or GIMP (free!) than it would be to scan in the hardcopies. So for me personally, it comes down to space and flexability. I gotta say if the RPG industry stopped selling PDF's I'd stop spending money in the RPG industry. I find that the money I spend on RPG stuff are big ticket items like the Shackled City Hardcover, World's Largest Dungeon and probably Ptolus. Other than that I can't be bothered. oh and one more reason I prefer PDF's...D00d, two words...CAMPAIGN PLANNER.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ShinHakkaider, post: 2517252, member: 9213"] C) Both. There are PDF's that I print out and have coil bound at Kinkos. Then if I'm working on something like character creation and I need to refernce something quickly and I only have my Powerbook available then I refer to it onscreen. Mostly though for me, how/why PDF's are used comes down to two factors. For the past two years I've had to donate a great deal of role-playing games and suppliments to my local library, due to space constraints in our apt. PDF's dont present those issues. I used to buy a fair amount of hard copy RPG materials, now 95% of my purchases over the past year have been PDF's. The second is the share factor. If I have a book that I want to loan to my players or that gets referred to around the table I can print out and coil bind one the book in question and not really care if it gets the crap kicked out of it. Or not worry about making notes in the margins, this is especially useful with adventures/modules. Or even when I want to give the players hand outs or show them what certain areas look like, or create player versions of map's from the maps in the books, It's alot easier to do that with PDF's and Photoshop or GIMP (free!) than it would be to scan in the hardcopies. So for me personally, it comes down to space and flexability. I gotta say if the RPG industry stopped selling PDF's I'd stop spending money in the RPG industry. I find that the money I spend on RPG stuff are big ticket items like the Shackled City Hardcover, World's Largest Dungeon and probably Ptolus. Other than that I can't be bothered. oh and one more reason I prefer PDF's...D00d, two words...CAMPAIGN PLANNER. [/QUOTE]

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