Bestiary PDF or Hardcopy

[Triston]

Hi
Im deciding whether I want the hardcopy bestiary or the PDF.
So far I cant find a reason to buy the hardcopy besides that its just nice to have a solid book.
Having a PDF would be nice because I can print out only the pages I need. I will mainly be running modules.

[leo1925]

As you said the hardcopy is a nice book to have, the .pdf is cheap, the printed pages from the .pdf are most likely to be black and white, the hardcopy has nice pretty coloured pictures.

[ElyasRavenwood]

Well I like having both PDFs on my laptop, and the hard copy books.

If i am running a module, I can have the PDF on my screen "turned' to the page that the map is on, and it saves me the trouble from flipping back and forth to the map.

I also like having both the Bestiary and the PDF on my lap top. Sometimes there is more then one monster in an encounter, so I have one monster on my lap top, and another in my bestiary.

Invariably there is a player, who wants to cast Summon monster 1 or Summon Nature's ally, and they have either forgotten to bring their bestiary, or they don't have one. I'm not passing them my lap top. I could pass them my Bestiary....if I'm in a good mood.

I could think of some other reasons.......the book is just the right size to "smack" an idiot player in the back of the head.....If i used the core rule book, someone's going to the hospital.

Another good reason, is that the book doesn't need electricity. If you have a PDF on your lap top, eventually you will be out of luck if you can't find a plug and your batteries run down ( or if you are playing by candle light because the electricity is out).

I hope this helps.

[Martin Kauffman 530]

I prefer books.

[Remco Sommeling]

Personally I find that if you need information for an extended period of time and possibly have to page through the book alot it is much more comfortable to actually have the physical book. I really have a hard time preparing encounters without having the physical books at hand for example.

[Kthulhu]

Remco Sommeling wrote:

Personally I find that if you need information for an extended period of time and possibly have to page through the book alot it is much more comfortable to actually have the physical book. I really have a hard time preparing encounters without having the physical books at hand for example.

For rulebooks and big huge adventures (like an AP) I would prefer to have the physical book. For the supplements and smaller adventures, I'm good with a PDF. Which explains why I subscribe to the RPG and AP lines, and simply grab the Player's Companion and Campaign Setting lines in PDF.