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Well I looked at a Codex: Chaos Daemons pdf before I bought the army the Pdf is what sold the army to me

No, I need a book. I can't read off a screen. Although free downlaods of other armies codices would be helpful.

Yes because if you look hard online they are there it is a illegal but they are still thare and also there is just somthing about holding a real book that technology will never replace.

kadun wrote:Q. Would people pay for free things?
A. No.

This has to be the stupidist comment ever, or people who pay for things they can get for free are the stupidest people ever. To the poster who said 'No' so wrong. People are paying for things they can get for free and it's a million dollar industry.

Like why do people pay for I Tunes?

I think a good system would be to slightly increase codex price (by like US$3-5), but with that codex you get a code to register with Games Workshop, giving you access to army list entries as .pdf form.

This would allow all gamers access to all codices for rules and testing, but those players that want the hard-copy feel and the extra fluff/stories- they can still buy the codex.


I know I have a lot of aches because I want to look up rules in other codices to check my opponent's word- but can't without shelling out the money.

To the OP, if you want to see a codex for free, just walk into a GW store, they show all books for free. Yes you have to read it there, thou.

Yeah for legality and i from experience know that a printed from the printed codex is not fun my little brother and sister decided to play catch with my vampire count army book so i and ripped it up so i copyed the pages i had intact that i needed and i hate to use that thing i prefere my army books that ar still intact and IN_THEORY i like your idea.

I would probably do as I do now. Buy it if I own the army so I have the copy to take to a tourney. Get the pdfs for all the others so I can verify rules issues that come up in games I play (and dakka).

But once I get my iPad then I could switch to all pdfs and likely will even if GW doesn't provide them just because then I will have every book where ever I go to reference without carrying a library of books.

I'd pay for a Codex PDF, but nowhere near what GW charges for a properly printed & bound hard copy.

IMO, a Codex PDF is worth, at most, a couple bucks as a download from Amazon. Rules-only? A buck.