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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 5472863" data-attributes="member: 38357">I'd love this, because it's the option that seems most likely to exist at the intersection of "actually happens" and "causes me no pain", but it wouldn't be ideal. I love the concept of the pdf format, I've bought tons of pdf products, and they are absolutely brilliant in some situations (checking out a new product I want to have just to have but am not sure I'd actually use, or when I'm at the computer and want to look something up without getting off of my... chair...).Unfortunately I find that actually using them at the table is something I just don't end up doing. It ought to be easy to print them out and use them, and maybe if I got myself organized and had a folder of stuff I used... But the folder I put my (printed out) monster stat blocks in for actual play use has about 5x as many old, used, no-longer relevant monsters in it than it does new ones.And I positively don't want any more big hardcover gaming books. Having to drag a big pile of heavy books to every game sucks, as my last few backpacks can attest. As this is mostly character-building stuff, maybe it wouldn't matter. One of the strengths of 4e for me is that I've managed to get away from feeling I have to know and track PC abilities, so as long as it gets into the CB it shouldn't be a big deal... But there is some stuff, and a few players, who manage to make me feel like maybe I should be bringing my books, so I can double-check stuff...So, yeah, basically I'm really, really bummed by the loss of the physical format of the essentials books. Dunno if anyone else feels the dame way (or cares, I guess, lol...) but that's what I want my rpg products to look and feel like nowadays. (With the exception that I appreciate good black and white products just as much as color ones. Not that the Essentials art isn't good - the illustration on p.31 of the Rules Compendium is now on my short list of favorite rpg art; but I'm more than happy with products that aren't full-color, as long as they have some style...)</blockquote>

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