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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7163527" data-attributes="member: 6796661">With official digital material available through multiple VTT companies and the upcoming DnD Beyond, will you pay for any of those or continue to download pirated PDFs because you need a PDF? Personally, I find PDFs to be rather outdated technology only marginally better than paper. Referring to PDFs on a small screen like a smart phone is not fun. Searching in most PDF software is not great, it is hard to navigate search results and little to no contextual information is given with the search results.&nbsp; Book marks are nice, but I can put tabs in my paper copy as easy as I can book mark a PDF. The main advantage of PDF over print is portability (and price is you are not paying for them).DnD Beyond is not impressing me with its character sheet, but I do like the universal search for all SRD content. Works great on mobile devices and the search results are grouped in a logical manner and a several-line snipped of text surrounding each search hit is provided. When all official content is available, I may subscribe. My main concern is whether the value will be worth the subscription cost and the fact that you have to be on-line to take advantage of it—though they state they have plans for off-line access as well. When DnD Beyond is available offline, it obviates most of the issues given by those who claim to need PDFs. The only objection remaining will be they don't want to pay what it costs. Stealing is cheaper, especially when the chances of getting caught and punished are so low.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7163527, member: 6796661"] With official digital material available through multiple VTT companies and the upcoming DnD Beyond, will you pay for any of those or continue to download pirated PDFs because you need a PDF? Personally, I find PDFs to be rather outdated technology only marginally better than paper. Referring to PDFs on a small screen like a smart phone is not fun. Searching in most PDF software is not great, it is hard to navigate search results and little to no contextual information is given with the search results. Book marks are nice, but I can put tabs in my paper copy as easy as I can book mark a PDF. The main advantage of PDF over print is portability (and price is you are not paying for them). DnD Beyond is not impressing me with its character sheet, but I do like the universal search for all SRD content. Works great on mobile devices and the search results are grouped in a logical manner and a several-line snipped of text surrounding each search hit is provided. When all official content is available, I may subscribe. My main concern is whether the value will be worth the subscription cost and the fact that you have to be on-line to take advantage of it—though they state they have plans for off-line access as well. When DnD Beyond is available offline, it obviates most of the issues given by those who claim to need PDFs. The only objection remaining will be they don't want to pay what it costs. Stealing is cheaper, especially when the chances of getting caught and punished are so low. [/QUOTE]

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