Jester David
Hero
The lack of PDFs irks me. I just flew down to GenCon and having the PHB on my iPad would have been very handy. I only carried a single Pathfinder book, relying on digital copies for my character. And with a subscription to the PF RPG line, kickstarter, and pre-orders I cannot remember the last time I didn't have the PDF weeks before the physical book. Many times I'll have finished reading the product cover to cover before my dead tree copy arrives.
It's weird not being able to looking PHB content up on the fly. Sometimes I find myself pulling out my iPad or hitting dropbox to check a rule while writing content, only to discover nothing. Having to get up, walk down a flight of stairs to my gaming librarian, and flip through a book is incredibly inconvenient.
I'm really tempted to just download a scan, as having a digital copy of a physical book is arguably no less illegal than copying a CD onto your iPod. Format shifting is legal in Canada, as is digital archiving.
We'll see how irritated I get in the next few weeks.
I imagine electronic books are tied up with Dungeonscape, in that you pay for a digital copy of the book which unlocks that book for use with the app. That way people don't just gain access to all the content by signing up for a month. It could also be handled by in-app purchases, making getting the content relatively easy.
But this means that until Dungeonscape is ready to take payment and handle distribution, they can't sell any PDFs.
Of course, software development is slow. And Trapdoor Technologies are a rookie company. So we can't expect the program to be finished anytime soon.
It's weird not being able to looking PHB content up on the fly. Sometimes I find myself pulling out my iPad or hitting dropbox to check a rule while writing content, only to discover nothing. Having to get up, walk down a flight of stairs to my gaming librarian, and flip through a book is incredibly inconvenient.
I'm really tempted to just download a scan, as having a digital copy of a physical book is arguably no less illegal than copying a CD onto your iPod. Format shifting is legal in Canada, as is digital archiving.
We'll see how irritated I get in the next few weeks.
I imagine electronic books are tied up with Dungeonscape, in that you pay for a digital copy of the book which unlocks that book for use with the app. That way people don't just gain access to all the content by signing up for a month. It could also be handled by in-app purchases, making getting the content relatively easy.
But this means that until Dungeonscape is ready to take payment and handle distribution, they can't sell any PDFs.
Of course, software development is slow. And Trapdoor Technologies are a rookie company. So we can't expect the program to be finished anytime soon.