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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 7687001" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>The 4e Compendium was like that. </p><p></p><p>It was also hated by the D&D Design team, since it was created for the sake of the Digital Team, and basically gave away the books for free (or rather, the low price of a monthly digital fee that went to the Digital department, not the actual creators of the content). </p><p></p><p>It would be nice to have a 5e Compendium program, where, like with Fantasy Grounds, you can opt into any books you buy for it (so it adds them piecemeal). However, Fantasy Grounds requires buying the books over again. If your purchase of them in Fantasy Grounds opted you into their usage in a Compendium function, that might make the double purchase more worthwhile, but it's still painful to buy a book twice.</p><p></p><p>In addition, the Fantasy Grounds/digital purchase still runs us into that same issue of "where does the money go?" The creators didn't get properly compensated last edition due to so much emphasis on digital. Not to mention, anything homebrewed or from a 3rd party wouldn't end up in the Compendium, and thus became far less desirable to consumers who used the Compendium and Character Builder last generation. We don't want a repeat of that. 5e is currently far more friendly to 3rd party and homebrew content, and that's largely due to the LACK of reliance on digital.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 7687001, member: 6803643"] The 4e Compendium was like that. It was also hated by the D&D Design team, since it was created for the sake of the Digital Team, and basically gave away the books for free (or rather, the low price of a monthly digital fee that went to the Digital department, not the actual creators of the content). It would be nice to have a 5e Compendium program, where, like with Fantasy Grounds, you can opt into any books you buy for it (so it adds them piecemeal). However, Fantasy Grounds requires buying the books over again. If your purchase of them in Fantasy Grounds opted you into their usage in a Compendium function, that might make the double purchase more worthwhile, but it's still painful to buy a book twice. In addition, the Fantasy Grounds/digital purchase still runs us into that same issue of "where does the money go?" The creators didn't get properly compensated last edition due to so much emphasis on digital. Not to mention, anything homebrewed or from a 3rd party wouldn't end up in the Compendium, and thus became far less desirable to consumers who used the Compendium and Character Builder last generation. We don't want a repeat of that. 5e is currently far more friendly to 3rd party and homebrew content, and that's largely due to the LACK of reliance on digital. [/QUOTE]
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