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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3705723" data-attributes="member: 4134">Instead of seeing more of that for free like we used to?To be honest, I haven't abandoned the idea of a digital component yet, but it has to be really good and useful:Those "cash enhancements" we were just talking about have to be proportionally priced. That means if the book has 200 pages and costs 20 bucks, the 2 extra pages should not cost more than 20 cents.If I buy something like the next virtual dragon, I want to be able to keep using it even if I decide to stop paying the monthly fee. That means downloadable content, as PDF or xml data or whatever. I want to be able to print that stuff and all that. Since this is the big online wonder, I think it should be possible to assemble your own virtual dragon - so if you want to put together all those "monster ecology" articles as one pdf, there should be a way (I wouldn't have any problem if that "authoring" part would only be available to active subscribers - as long as you keep access to the stuff you bought, it's okay).There need to be lists for spells, feats, whateverthenextbigthinginfoureis. Not those index tables we have now. I mean a tool where you can make a list of all the spells you "own" (because you bought those books and have entered the digital code, or because you bought the article it was in), that generates a spell-list thing like we have in the spells section of the PHB, followed by all the spell texts. Those lists should be filterable by school, origin, class and level, whether my character knows it, whatever you wish. In short, the digital part should make good use of the possibilities a system with powerful databases and computers and ways to check what content a user owns offers, especially since you have pay to use it every month, and it's run by the company that calls itself world leader in hobby gaming with a great vision for the bright future of RPGs.If it does all that, It's not unlikely that I'll shell out 10 bucks a month for it all, provided I move over to 4e (which a good online tool might actually improve the chances of). But I can't help to shake the feeling that it will just be non-print dungeon and dragon with lists that look a lot like those lists Wizards has now, except that it's all not free. I couldn't care less about a virtual tabletop - the day I stop playing D&D on an actual tabletop is the day I stop playing D&D period. Just not the same without people sitting at the table, might as well play WoW then.</blockquote>

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