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<blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 5490244" data-attributes="member: 30678">I'm still a bit leery about &quot;digital DMing&quot;; computers surely help, but IME using digital resources only can be problematic. For example, in one the groups I gamed with we had MapTools totally crash on us, and we had to keep going without a map; not even the DM could see it, and he didn't have a printed copy of it. And usually most of the DMs put less effort into digital maps than hand-drawn ones, at least the DMs I know. Although I might write my adventures on computer (and print them out), I still prefer books, minis and gorgeous dungeon tiles at my table. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm not so sure about that; formats come and go, even ones that were popular at some point of time. I think it depends a lot on which kind of e-book readers we will have in the future, and which formats the manufacturers and publishers want to support. As far as I know, not every reader supports PDF format even now; why would it be surprising if better and/or more popular file formats (for whatever reasons) replace it in five or ten years? And even though you could still read it on your computer, there might be e-readers or other handheld gear that have replaced laptops for trendy DMs, so you won't be able to read PDFs when running the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; But it's all speculation on my part, and it is true that at the moment PDF is a widespread, hugely popular file format.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Primal, post: 5490244, member: 30678"] I'm still a bit leery about "digital DMing"; computers surely help, but IME using digital resources only can be problematic. For example, in one the groups I gamed with we had MapTools totally crash on us, and we had to keep going without a map; not even the DM could see it, and he didn't have a printed copy of it. And usually most of the DMs put less effort into digital maps than hand-drawn ones, at least the DMs I know. Although I might write my adventures on computer (and print them out), I still prefer books, minis and gorgeous dungeon tiles at my table. :) I'm not so sure about that; formats come and go, even ones that were popular at some point of time. I think it depends a lot on which kind of e-book readers we will have in the future, and which formats the manufacturers and publishers want to support. As far as I know, not every reader supports PDF format even now; why would it be surprising if better and/or more popular file formats (for whatever reasons) replace it in five or ten years? And even though you could still read it on your computer, there might be e-readers or other handheld gear that have replaced laptops for trendy DMs, so you won't be able to read PDFs when running the game. ;) But it's all speculation on my part, and it is true that at the moment PDF is a widespread, hugely popular file format. [/QUOTE]

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