What Books Would be Better as PDFs

[TheAuldGrump]

There are some books that I would find more useful as PDFs, largely because I do not use the entire book, or only need a portion while at the table.

WotC's Unearthed Arcana is a great book, but I do not use more than a quarter of it.

Ultimate Game Designer's Guide by Mongoose - much the same.

Strongholds & Dynasties, also by Mongoose, sometimes I use the whole book, but usually I just need the mass combat rules.

What books do other people feel would be better served in PDF format?

The Auld Grump

 

[philreed]

Tome of Horrors and Tome of Horrors II. Luckily, both are now in PDF. I just haven't bought the PDFs yet.

Completely agree with Unearthed Arcana.

Actually, thinking about it there are a lot of books I'd like in PDF that are already in PDF. I need to get busy shopping.

 

[Crothian]

The Comple Books and The Races of books. I don't use much of any of them at once and I'd perfer them all as PDF so I can just print out a section of a class or race or feat to hand to the players so they don't have to carry around so many books.

 

[Mercule]

Modules. UA is a maybe. Dunno. I just like the feel of dead trees.

 

[IronWolf]

I agree with modules, they seem to work well in PDF format for me. I am with Mercule though, I just like the feel of books. If anything maybe the question should be which PDFs should be books!

 

[Yair]

Adventures of all sorts. Much more comfortable to use as seperate sheets and to copy-paste as needed.

Any "collection" book (monsters, variant rules, PrCs, feats, planes, whatever) has advantages as a pdf (so you wouldn't lug around all of it for just a few paragraphs), but tbhe lack of that dead-wood feel is a hinderance.... I suppose I want both.

 

[Kesh]

BoEF.

Because then it wouldn't draw funny looks from people browsing my collection on the shelf.

 

[reanjr]

Books of organized optional rules. I don't get much use out of most books, but it's often a feat from pg. 32, a spell from pg. 63, and a magic item from pg. 75. If it was more like, the race on pgs. 3-7, then we're talking.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmmm, the mention of the Complete series reminds me - the Quintessential Series from Mongoose would work too, being able to print parts separately would be nice.

For that matter the terrain series by WotC - the character sections for the players, the critters and terrain effects for me. Being able to produce redundant copies would be nice. Though I can't bring myself to pay full print price for a PDF...

The Auld Grump

 

[Flyspeck23]

Most creature books would work better as PDFs. Especially if each creature starts on a new page.