Privateer Press Goes Digital For Rulebooks & More
August 26, 2013 by brennon
Privateer Press has gone digital and launched it's new platform for downloading rulebooks for Warmachine, Hordes and Iron Kingdoms through PPDigital.
The new app is available on both iDevices and Android platforms and gives you...
- Digital subscriptions to No Quarter magazine!
- WARMACHINE and HORDES books!
- Iron Kingdoms RPG content!
- Rulebooks for Privateer’s board and card games, including LEVEL 7 [ESCAPE], Heap, and Infernal Contraption!
- Errata updates to ensure your digital rulebooks are up-to-date!
All seems pretty good indeed and should go well with people who already have War Room. The one thing that I would say though is that all this digital content is grand but not when you run out of batteries!
A friend of mine was playing a friend using the digital products and when his device conked out the fellow had to forfeit! That doesn't happen with cards and paper!
Will you go digital?
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Have they done anything interesting with their content in digital, or is this basically a glorified PDF reader? If the latter I really can’t see justifying the price per book.
If someone were to publish a vigorously cross-linked text with context-sensitive interactive features I would be very interested. But just a straight import of their PDF files doesn’t do much for me. Monte Cook did an amazing job incrating cross references in the print version of Numenera. That is a book designed for a digital age. Something like that in digital would be awesome.
So far, having only read the NQ magazines on it, those have decent hyperlinking. I have yet to look at a rule book, but I hope to in future be able to further comment on that.
Glorified PDF reader, but with exclusive content, probably.
That said, the painting/modeling advice in No Quarter has been getting worse and worse in the latest years, and half of the magazine is just ad catalog. At least there’s still a fluff part, and some art, unlike White Dwarf.
Still, you’ll get no complaints from me if this is the first step to make it completely digital. Less of a waste that way.
To be honest the prices for the books I think are reasonable (almost 50% cheaper for some books). Also PP are pretty good on contact for error support. My tablet is old and runs a custom rom, so my setup is quite a bit different to what most people will be using.
The great thing is that they have all the old NQ on there and so those are priced very nicely (1 or 2 euros).
if they made their back issues of no quarter available digitally I would be on this like a tramp on chips