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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9309075" data-attributes="member: 907">I have run games using D&amp;D Beyond, and I have run other games using books and PDFs, and at least for me DDB is much easier to use. The main thing is that it's formatted for the web, and done so in a fairly good way, which means it automatically adjusts to whatever screen I'm using. Big desktop screen? Laptop? Ipad? All work great, and I can adjust the font size to something that makes it easily readable. Even phone is OK, though I wouldn't want to run a game from it. And since it runs in my web browser, I can easily have multiple tabs open with different material, or even the same book/material at different locations – that's not something Acrobat Reader does on mobile apps (Ipad/Chromebook).As for printouts, most of the stuff you'd want to print (maps, spells, items, monsters) exist both as part of the text of the book itself and as individual &quot;bits&quot;. For example, you can find acid splash both as part of the <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spells#SpellDescriptions" target="_blank">Basic Rules</a> and on its <a href="https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/acid-splash" target="_blank">own page.</a> I haven't really tried printing them out (since one of the main advantages for me is that I don't have to lug around a bunch of paper), but just looking at the print preview they seem fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 9309075, member: 907"] I have run games using D&D Beyond, and I have run other games using books and PDFs, and at least for me DDB is much easier to use. The main thing is that it's formatted for the web, and done so in a fairly good way, which means it automatically adjusts to whatever screen I'm using. Big desktop screen? Laptop? Ipad? All work great, and I can adjust the font size to something that makes it easily readable. Even phone is OK, though I wouldn't want to run a game from it. And since it runs in my web browser, I can easily have multiple tabs open with different material, or even the same book/material at different locations – that's not something Acrobat Reader does on mobile apps (Ipad/Chromebook). As for printouts, most of the stuff you'd want to print (maps, spells, items, monsters) exist both as part of the text of the book itself and as individual "bits". For example, you can find [I]acid splash[/I] both as part of the [URL='https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/spells#SpellDescriptions']Basic Rules[/URL] and on its [URL='https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/acid-splash']own page.[/URL] I haven't really tried printing them out (since one of the main advantages for me is that I [B]don't[/B] have to lug around a bunch of paper), but just looking at the print preview they seem fine. [/QUOTE]

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