Re: WotC in spin control

Christopher Adams <mhacdebhandia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Keith Davies wrote:

Because people will actually *pay* for hardcopy. I don't expect many
people would be willing to subscribe to an online magazine for
similar content. There are too many places where you can get content
online, free.

I am, personally, quite willing to subscribe if I think it's worth it.

It's the "think it's worth it" part I'm having trouble picturing.

I'm willing to pay for it if I think it's *worth* it... but with the
amount of good material available for free, 'worth it' is a little
harder to achieve.

Right this moment, I'm not sure that having Dragon in hardcopy really
*does* make it more valuable than the same information in electronic
form. It's nice to be able to read it away from the computer, but I'm
not that sure I want to bring a magazine (or two, or five) to the
gaming table when I could bring the five articles I need, printed out
and stapled together or whacked in a folder.

True enough. I just finished typing a copy of Radiant Servant of Pelor
for use in a game I'm playing in, so I don't need to bring the whole
damn book.

I mean, I love my Dragon collection, and there are lots of things
which work in a magazine which I will miss from both Pathfinder and
Wizards of the Coast's digital initiative, but . . . I'm not sure
that, in terms of utility for actually gaming, an online service will
be worse.

I don't know that it'll be worse... just that it'd have to be better
(or at the least more convenient) than what I can get for free.

But then, I don't mind reading things from the computer screen, I *do*
buy gaming material electronically, and I'm comfortable with using a
laptop at the gaming table - in fact, I think I'm going to have to as
Savage Tide ramps up. We don't have enough space, where we're playing,
to sprawl out with books and dice and paper . . .

I don't mind *too much* reading from the screen, but it gets wearing
after a while. Having hand-portable documents is a benefit to me.

Another of my projects -- though this one really does tie into most of
them -- is to be able to get an electronic, consistently-formatted copy
of all the OGC I use. Eventually I'd want to include non-OGC, but I
couldn't share that.


Keith
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