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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 6283614" data-attributes="member: 53082"><p>This is a big concern of mine now - I think WOTC was spoiled by the existence of the DDI tool and that meant there was less of a brake on the natural tendency of designers to tinker. In any other game you might have gotten a book of optional extras or some web articles about alternatives to some powers. The assumption that most active playing groups were using DDI - I am speculating here - meant that DDI became the primary channel and since it was automatic why not make those changes official? </p><p></p><p>Additionally I wonder if there was also an idea that if people are paying for it every month then they should get something besides typo corrections when it comes to updates.</p><p></p><p>There was a lot of criticism of 4E that it was MMO-like which I never bought into but this is the one way that it was - not rules-wise but structure-wise: monthly "patches" that update key parts of the game whether they were "broken" or not. Hopefully that tendency has been cauterized but if the 5E DDI uses the same model as the 4E DDI then it could be a problem down the road. </p><p></p><p>Pathfinder's online rules references are free and they do seem to make a serious effort to fix bugs in their ongoing printings of the rulebooks as well as the online versions and PDF's so that's "the other way to do it" that seems to get less internet flak.</p><p></p><p><em>Note: I still subscribe to DDI as I still run a 4E game and find it useful. I run Pathfinder too. Not trying to start any edition finger-pointing here, just observing the different approaches.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 6283614, member: 53082"] This is a big concern of mine now - I think WOTC was spoiled by the existence of the DDI tool and that meant there was less of a brake on the natural tendency of designers to tinker. In any other game you might have gotten a book of optional extras or some web articles about alternatives to some powers. The assumption that most active playing groups were using DDI - I am speculating here - meant that DDI became the primary channel and since it was automatic why not make those changes official? Additionally I wonder if there was also an idea that if people are paying for it every month then they should get something besides typo corrections when it comes to updates. There was a lot of criticism of 4E that it was MMO-like which I never bought into but this is the one way that it was - not rules-wise but structure-wise: monthly "patches" that update key parts of the game whether they were "broken" or not. Hopefully that tendency has been cauterized but if the 5E DDI uses the same model as the 4E DDI then it could be a problem down the road. Pathfinder's online rules references are free and they do seem to make a serious effort to fix bugs in their ongoing printings of the rulebooks as well as the online versions and PDF's so that's "the other way to do it" that seems to get less internet flak. [I]Note: I still subscribe to DDI as I still run a 4E game and find it useful. I run Pathfinder too. Not trying to start any edition finger-pointing here, just observing the different approaches.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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