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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6303555" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think "You can download a gimped version of the basic rules that doesn't reflect what you'll actually be playing at the table as PDFs!" is going to help WotC much. Really, if this is their plan, we can reasonably say that 5E isn't going to get very far. This is 2014. That would have been cool in 2000 (indeed, it WAS cool in 2000, what with the SRD and all that). Maybe. Now? Uhhh. Not so much. It's retro. Not in a good way.If they are playing to lose, they will do only that.If they are playing to win, though, what they will have is much more than that - basic rules in PDF form for people who want them, of course (which will be a minority of people who end up actually playing the game), but they need an online character builder (which saves online, not to local machines, primarily, just like they have for 4E), and they need online resources (which it seems they will be having), and they need apps for stuff like virtual character sheets.Not PDFs. Online. Preferably mobile-friendly. Preferably app-integrated stuff (people prefer that to trying to visit websites on phones and tablets).</blockquote>