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ShortQuests -- Pocket Sized Adventures! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed for 1-2 game sessions.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="djotaku" data-source="post: 9872819" data-attributes="member: 7054471">One thing I forgot to comment that I referenced in a blog post last year, but is relevant here. While I was using DDB to create characters, it was "magic" that just happened to have certain options and just click w/e. It wasn't until I went to Tales of the Valiant and had to create my own characters from scratch that I came to truly understand the components that go into a character and how they make sense. This has transferred to other TTRPGs such as Cosmere and Paizo's *finder RPGs.Second, I saw the wizkid tabs you mention (and picture) in the original post. I would argue that the need to buy those as a 3rd party accessory goes to show the wisdom of the Paizo books with their "TOC" or bread crumb column that's on every second page. When you're reading a Paizo book you always know where you are relative to the other information in the book. Whatever you think of their TTRPGs, that's a pretty awesome way to organize your reference books - which is what TTRPG source books are! While I love the "old, tattered paper" look of D&D books (boy does it really fire up something in me), I also have to give points to Kobold Press for their clear, clean look - especially on the Tales of the Valiant line. (Their older 5e books like Midgard are more like the D&D aesthetic) Someone else mentioned getting older. I'm in my 40s with my eye doc saying that sometime in the next two years I'm going to have to go to either bifocals or readers based on the close focus part of my eye test. That nice, clean design of Kobold Press is so much easier to read. ALSO! Bonus to digital for being able to zoom in which you can't do with a physical book. However, it does make me wish that the indies who release their PDFs (since WotC doesn't) would also release epubs. The ability for an EPUB to reflow as you change the font size or size of the reader is awesome! It's what I love about ereaders for my fiction books. Yeah, it sucks when it's a fantasy book with a map, but usually the best fiction is available with both PDF and epub for the same price. I will load up the map in PDF and read the book in epub.</blockquote>

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