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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7688945" data-attributes="member: 12731">Thank you for not misinterpreting my statement as a straw man argument against any particular poster.You bring up the core issue: I believe it would be disingenious to summarize a true evaluation of the app's reception as &quot;do[ing] quite well&quot; (again, not saying you said that). Even for a free app, I find Dragon+ to fail at most counts. Technically. Contents-wise. Upholding the legacy of the name. If Wizards wants to give us free adventures, that's great. It really doesn't help the app, though. Now that I can access the free adventure pdf link completely independently of the app or the Dragon+ web site, I can and will ditch that completely, never to look back. And that, in my view, is a much more accurate evaluation of Dragon+: &quot;now even more worthless&quot;. (Yes, if there was no way of accessing the good stuff without the bad, I would be forced to take the good stuff into account when I evaluate the overall app, and you would have something resembling a point. I still think the bad outweighs the good, even considering the app is free and the adventure is free. In short, they couldn't have invented a worse way of distributing free adventures than this app, which I don't consider to be particularly glowing praise. That they backtrack on this delivery method, allowing normal PDF downloads speaks volumes.)Let's hope we can build up a link repository here at EN World, where we provide direct one-click links to the useful parts of the so-called Dragon+ initiative, so nobody needs to wade through the dreck to find and use them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7688945, member: 12731"] Thank you for not misinterpreting my statement as a straw man argument against any particular poster. You bring up the core issue: I believe it would be disingenious to summarize a true evaluation of the app's reception as "do[ing] quite well" (again, not saying you said that). Even for a free app, I find Dragon+ to fail at most counts. Technically. Contents-wise. Upholding the legacy of the name. If Wizards wants to give us free adventures, that's great. It really doesn't help the app, though. Now that I can access the free adventure pdf link completely independently of the app or the Dragon+ web site, I can and will ditch that completely, never to look back. And [I]that[/I], in my view, is a much more accurate evaluation of Dragon+: "now even more worthless". (Yes, if there was no way of accessing the good stuff without the bad, I would be forced to take the good stuff into account when I evaluate the overall app, and you would have something resembling a point. I still think the bad outweighs the good, even considering the app is free and the adventure is free. In short, they couldn't have invented a worse way of distributing free adventures than this app, which I don't consider to be particularly glowing praise. That they backtrack on this delivery method, allowing normal PDF downloads speaks volumes.) Let's hope we can build up a link repository here at EN World, where we provide direct one-click links to the useful parts of the so-called Dragon+ initiative, so nobody needs to wade through the dreck to find and use them. [/QUOTE]

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