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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9312891" data-attributes="member: 6796661">andGood to know. My experience with FG is, obviously, limited. Though the &quot;tedious&quot; part is still going to dealbreaker for many people. Then again, if I am to be fair, getting content from a PDF into a VTT is tedious as well. Well, yeah, but that's kinda the point. There are MANY PDF readers and PDF readers are built into core aspects of our devices' operating systems and our web browsers. You don't need any special software. It is difficult to think of many general computing devices that one might want to read or reference a TTRPG book on that won't handle the PDF without any further effort by the user. And you are pretty much always going to get a result you expect without any formatting. I'm not really arguing with you. I think we are on the same page, actually, in terms of how we manage our digital TTRPG material. But I recognize why those pushing for PDFs are doing so. Many if not most people don't want to deal with the hassle of trying to future-proof VTT content. If they want to make sure they will have a digital copy of a game book long into the future, nothing beats a PDF.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9312891, member: 6796661"] and Good to know. My experience with FG is, obviously, limited. Though the "tedious" part is still going to dealbreaker for many people. Then again, if I am to be fair, getting content from a PDF into a VTT is tedious as well. Well, yeah, but that's kinda the point. There are MANY PDF readers and PDF readers are built into core aspects of our devices' operating systems and our web browsers. You don't need any special software. It is difficult to think of many general computing devices that one might want to read or reference a TTRPG book on that won't handle the PDF without any further effort by the user. And you are pretty much always going to get a result you expect without any formatting. I'm not really arguing with you. I think we are on the same page, actually, in terms of how we manage our digital TTRPG material. But I recognize why those pushing for PDFs are doing so. Many if not most people don't want to deal with the hassle of trying to future-proof VTT content. If they want to make sure they will have a digital copy of a game book long into the future, nothing beats a PDF. [/QUOTE]

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