Printable

[Hugo Baldur]

Hallo
i'm from Germany and my English is not so good. Sorry for that.

Before i buy the software, one question, is there a print funktion?

Hugo

[Farling]

Hi Hugh,

No, there is not a print function for RealmWorks.

RW is used on your laptop/PC during a gaming session to manage the game, so no need for printing.

There is a request thread in another forum at http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=48282

[rob]

Not yet. The primary usage of Realm Works is for the GM to have a computer (typically a laptop) running RW at the table. Many GMs also leverage the Player View mechanism to show content to players during the game session.

Printing has been requested by a vocal portion of the user base, so it's a feature that's definitely on the todo list. However, it's not something that's been implemented yet.

[rob]

Ninja'd!

[MNBlockHead]

As someone who would like printing capability, but is a heavy user of RW nevertheless, I highly recommend that you consider RW unless you absolutely have be able to print.

The only time that I can see absolutely needing printing ability is if you are at a location where you don't have access to electric outlets (some conventions and game stores). If you DM from home or a friend's home, I would think you could manage to have a laptop at the table.

RW is the best TTRPG campaign-management system available and it would be great if you could use it to manage campaigns and prepare sessions that you actually DM from printed paper. Even if it had printing capability, however, I couldn't imagine going back to page flipping when I have an entire campaign database at my fingertips.

If you are are thinking about the occasional need to print player handouts, you can attach those to topics and articles as PDF (or Word, RTF, etc.) files, which you can open and print from the associated software (Adobe Acrobat, MS Word, etc.).

I know that there are some who just won't use RW if they can't print, because they have to DM from paper, but those of us among the vocal users of RW asking for print functionality have been running games for quite a while without the ability to print.

[Lexin]

I manage really well without being able to print. I mostly use my TV as a viewscreen, and if there are any handouts that really must be on paper, I prepare those ahead of time as I used to in my pre-RW days.