Comments on: Nerd Watching: Books Are Lying to You!

By: Yax

Yax — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:06:36 +0000

I don’t like the whole piracy thing. There’s always going to be a free version available somewhere. Personally I buy my music on iTunes instead of downloading it just because it’s less of a hassle. Same thing for PDF books. There’s always going to be piracy. Why penalize good customers because of a few pirates? Bleh.

By: Neuroglyph

Neuroglyph — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:28:29 +0000

Quinn – I’d prefer a downloadable pdf too – but after the recent piracy that WotC experienced, I wonder if they are going to be gun shy about making their products portable.

Kindle would work too, but I’m to cheap to go out and buy one yet :P

By: Quinn

Quinn — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:09:52 +0000

@Neuroglyph For me i would prefer to have a downloadabul pdf or even something formatted for an ereader, i would much rather be able to carryall my books around in a kindle or a nook then to have to hall 50 lbs of hardcovers with me when i go out to game.

The other problem with browse only is what if you like a rule for your game and then they change it you would have no record of the revision history. On a related note i think they would still need to issue an errata report like a change notice on a updated software program.

By: Neuroglyph

Neuroglyph — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:04:58 +0000

I think this is a clear sign that WotC should consider publishing books electronically as PDFs – say something you can’t download but can browse – and then WotC can update them as much as they want – then you don’t have to fuss with errata ever.

I do most of my DM prep and character gen on my laptop anyways, so it’d be really natural to puruse an online book.

Frankly, it’d be worth more to me to pay a monthly subscription to the “D&D Online Library” than to buy book after book that is so “erratified” that its about useless within 6 months.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:05:05 +0000

But just think – Munchkin has a new card: “Updated Rulebook”. Adds +2 to any item by permanently updating the item! (If the item goes to the graveyard, so does the update)

steve