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<blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5550013" data-attributes="member: 83796"><p>I'm 100% with you in principle, but PDF is so last decade <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The innovative approach that works on tablets, opens up interactivity and customisation, and gets round all the viewing problems (by letting you control the display fully) is html. It's also the universal format on the planet and how you're going to get future D&D whether you like it or not.</p><p></p><p>There are two compliant html and tablet ready complete RPG systems available at present: D&D Insider and Treasure, but for some reason you dudes just ain't up for it.</p><p></p><p>DDI has received complaints, moans, groans and general howling; yet delivers a damned good way of accessing D&D on many levels, (it doesn't help that DDi and 4e are so huge). When, overall, it's a damned good service as a rules lookup off a fast connection.</p><p></p><p>Treasure, has all the html, autostyling at a touch, browser tools to hand, dream on a tablet you could want, . . . navigation maps, customisation, visual gameplay options . . . BUT no gizmos, heavy styling or clutter.</p><p></p><p>However, it gets a completely different reaction in D&D land compared to RPG land. For instance, I posted a low key mention of a tiny update to Treasure on RPG.NET Promos a few weeks ago knowing there'd be interest and several hundred views followed. Didn't even bother posting here.</p><p></p><p>Why the polar difference? I'd love to know, but it does seem to have something to do with formats, as on the one occasion when we put up PDFs for a while there was a rash of PDF downloads routed from ENWorld.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, purely for the sake of badness we took the PDFs down and stuck up .docs instead, so PDF Luddites would at least have to consider putting their own pics in before burning. This backfired when emails arrived from dudes who didn't repaginate before burning and got scrumpy PDFs.</p><p></p><p>We went to each of their homes and assassinated them <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nedjer, post: 5550013, member: 83796"] I'm 100% with you in principle, but PDF is so last decade :) The innovative approach that works on tablets, opens up interactivity and customisation, and gets round all the viewing problems (by letting you control the display fully) is html. It's also the universal format on the planet and how you're going to get future D&D whether you like it or not. There are two compliant html and tablet ready complete RPG systems available at present: D&D Insider and Treasure, but for some reason you dudes just ain't up for it. DDI has received complaints, moans, groans and general howling; yet delivers a damned good way of accessing D&D on many levels, (it doesn't help that DDi and 4e are so huge). When, overall, it's a damned good service as a rules lookup off a fast connection. Treasure, has all the html, autostyling at a touch, browser tools to hand, dream on a tablet you could want, . . . navigation maps, customisation, visual gameplay options . . . BUT no gizmos, heavy styling or clutter. However, it gets a completely different reaction in D&D land compared to RPG land. For instance, I posted a low key mention of a tiny update to Treasure on RPG.NET Promos a few weeks ago knowing there'd be interest and several hundred views followed. Didn't even bother posting here. Why the polar difference? I'd love to know, but it does seem to have something to do with formats, as on the one occasion when we put up PDFs for a while there was a rash of PDF downloads routed from ENWorld. Incidentally, purely for the sake of badness we took the PDFs down and stuck up .docs instead, so PDF Luddites would at least have to consider putting their own pics in before burning. This backfired when emails arrived from dudes who didn't repaginate before burning and got scrumpy PDFs. We went to each of their homes and assassinated them :devil: [/QUOTE]
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