They can be viewed offline using the android and ios compendium app. It's not a pdf format, but their own file format (WotC doesn't do pdfs for print products). There's no offline support for desktop however, except for manually saving the web pages to your computer (something I did when I had limited connection during the Avernus release)
Or do I have to be logged in? Is it like a pdf or what format is it?
They can be viewed offline using the android and ios compendium app. It's not a pdf format, but their own file format (WotC doesn't do pdfs for print products). There's no offline support for desktop however, except for manually saving the web pages to your computer (something I did when I had limited connection during the Avernus release)
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