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<blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 3821873" data-attributes="member: 3397">I'll join you with my three different D&amp;D 3.0 / 3.5 groups. Never been an issue.The only problem with the grapple rules is when very large creatures grapple and hold very small creatures and you begin to wonder why I can't hold on to a cat...Good grief.This is done because a lot of older browsers SERIOUSLY mishandle direct PDF links. They open the PDF in the browser using the Acrobat plugin, and on slower machines and older browsers this often results in very slow loading, and reduced usability. Further, many novice users have shown that they cannot figure out how to then save the file to their computer once it has opened in the browser.By making the file a zip file, the vast majority of users will download it and then open it instead of opening it natively in their browser.This makes for many happier users.This was an issue back in the early adopter phase for PDFs. Every time I see people explain it, however, it is usually rebuked with a whole variety of anecdotes about how user X has never had such a problem and thus it is dumb that people have implemented systems to avoid the so called problem. It has been a problem, it continues to be a problem, this is a simple work-around for that problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HellHound, post: 3821873, member: 3397"] I'll join you with my three different D&D 3.0 / 3.5 groups. Never been an issue. The only problem with the grapple rules is when very large creatures grapple and hold very small creatures and you begin to wonder why I can't hold on to a cat... Good grief. This is done because a lot of older browsers SERIOUSLY mishandle direct PDF links. They open the PDF in the browser using the Acrobat plugin, and on slower machines and older browsers this often results in very slow loading, and reduced usability. Further, many novice users have shown that they cannot figure out how to then save the file to their computer once it has opened in the browser. By making the file a zip file, the vast majority of users will download it and then open it instead of opening it natively in their browser. This makes for many happier users. This was an issue back in the early adopter phase for PDFs. Every time I see people explain it, however, it is usually rebuked with a whole variety of anecdotes about how user X has never had such a problem and thus it is dumb that people have implemented systems to avoid the so called problem. It has been a problem, it continues to be a problem, this is a simple work-around for that problem. [/QUOTE]

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