My brothers and sisters in Christ, to all the PbtA Devs, because we seem to be the only motherfuckers who do this, do not say "the playbooks are available online so we aren't putting them in the print book."
For the love of god, pay the extra 2 dollars a book to print them. Otherwise, in twenty years when every download link to them is gone forever because the internet is ephemeral, your game will be literally unplayable.
I swear to God, people forget how easily shit is lost on the internet. It boggles my brain when I was chatting with people and say they put loads of effort into a game but have no interest in a PDF for it and want to keep it a website.
Maybe it's because I was around when the internet started but your site will die one day, anything that can be saved to a harddrive or kept in print media will keep it alive when that day comes.
While we are on the subject, helpful bit of advice here: back up your google docs of your game dev work every so often. I got a large hard drive so I do it every year or so. It can save a lot of heartache. Also, try to keep it on a thumbdrive as well in case your harddrive dies.
thinking again about how when .hack was new and fresh, the one thing about its premise i called bullshit on was the idea that the epic poem that the MMORPG "The World" was based on that had simply vanished from the Internet; the site was gone, and its contents couldn't be easily saved or printed or otherwise archived
it all sounded like a lazy handwave to me some twenty years ago
"it's the Internet; nothing just vanishes"
suffice it to say i have been disabused of that notion in the intervening years
