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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7710085" data-attributes="member: 1465">Mumble, mumble...The sneak peak looks nice, but I am not sure how this product would really enhance the way I play D&D.- I have used a laptop in the past as a DM screen, to look at a hyperlinked SRD while playing 3e. But one of my favourite features of 5e is that I don't actually need to look at the rules that often. I still like my D&D to be very "pen & paper" in nature, it's what makes it complementary to videogames.- Similarly, I don't get all these people having difficulties with the math, so that they need a digital aid. The math of 5e is so simple that you could avoid the traditional character sheet full of precalculated stuff. The small math required is also part of the fun for me.- A general problem I have with digital tools, is that they seem to need a lot of stuff to look attractive and thus sell well. They aim at having lots of information + gorgeous artwork on the same page, to look worth their price. However this works against usability. For my preferences, the less the information, the smoother the game. - I think the price model makes sense from the producer's point of view: the SRD is already free and so asking to pay for it would require the tool to be REALLY a major improvement to the management of the game; allowing custom material for free however would open up the possibility for gamers to copy official supplements material into the tool (and maybe even share it online), so requiring a subscription for this makes sure that at least some revenue is generated. However, this means you need the subscription to incorporate even small house rules and additions, or be forced to apply them "off the tool". I think part of the attractiveness of the digital tool is to have everything at hand, otherwise it'll always feel an insufficient tool... so the choice is between increased & recurring costs, or just forget about the whole thing.- I tend to buy RPG books as long-term resources with a broad scope. I would never buy "just what I need" because what I need is the idea of a complete game at my hand for a very long time. Not interested in purchasing small bits.- If you have a subscription, you'd better have time to keep up with it. Unfortunately, I don't usually know if I'm even going to play the game next month. Not interested in subscription either.- So that leaves me off with either buying the digital version of the full PHB+MM (I could skip the DMG) one-time, or just avoid the digital tool altogether. But I already bought the books, so it's going to be hard for them to provide a cheap enough offer and substantial reasons to use the tool to win me over.It's not that it doesn't look cool, it's that it doesn't seem it would truly make me play or run the game better.</blockquote>

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