4th edition online resources?

[pathfinderq1]

So, I used to have a DDI subscription, back when I was playing 4e pretty regularly- but I let it expire as 5e was coming out.

Are the 4e compendium and other resources still available on line? Would I need to renew my DDI subscrption? Or CAN I still do that, with 5e taking center stage? If not, is there any other way to obtain that information?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

You can find the Compendium here: http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/database.aspx

Yes, it still exists. You would need to renew your subscription.

 

[cavalier973]

www.dndinsider.com

You'll have to renew your subscription.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Yeah, you can still renew, everything is still there and working, though basically unsupported. Understand though, there's no connection between any 4e and 5e resources. DDI does not and AFAIK never will cover any 5e material in any way. If and when you can buy online support for 5e it will be a completely separate product (and as I understand it they are going totally 3rd party with that). The point being, don't make the mistake of thinking that a year DDI sub will get you any 5e bennies if you find you aren't playing 4e any more and are playing 5e. Sadly it seems even Dungeon and Dragon are dead and gone, with a DDI sub you can D/L them, but there won't be a 5e version, and consequently its not like a DDI sub would even get you that.

 

[MoutonRustique]

Anyone ever figure out a way to get Dragon and/or Dungeon in a time frame acceptable to non OCD mortals ?

i.e. not one article at a time...

 

[pemerton]

Anyone ever figure out a way to get Dragon and/or Dungeon in a time frame acceptable to non OCD mortals ?

i.e. not one article at a time...

For most of them there are complied downloads. The exceptions are Dragon 395-415 and Dungeon 186-206, which were never compiled (at least, not by WotC - I have no idea what might be out there in the Wild Wild Web).

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

For most of them there are complied downloads. The exceptions are Dragon 395-415 and Dungeon 186-206, which were never compiled (at least, not by WotC - I have no idea what might be out there in the Wild Wild Web).

Right, for all up to 395/186 they compiled them at the end of the month, so there are both separate PDFs and a compiled PDF. After 415/206 they stopped putting out individual articles as PDFs (although in that time frame they released so much stuff as free material that there are a LOT of non-paywalled articles in PDFs that would have previously been magazine articles).

Personally I liked the individual article PDFs, though I can understand they're a PITA to download. It was just a LOT easier to find what you wanted that way if you were searching for some article, you don't have to wade through the rest of the magazine, and frankly a LOT of issues of the magazines have one useful thing plus a whole lot of basically cruft. I'm sure most articles are interesting to someone, but especially if you didn't run your game in either FR or POLand there's a lot of stuff that just isn't that interesting.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Anyone ever figure out a way to get Dragon and/or Dungeon in a time frame acceptable to non OCD mortals ?

i.e. not one article at a time...

Well, if you can hack into my PC you can grab the compiled editions because I spent some time when I was sick recently to compile all the articles and adventures.

 

[cavalier973]

Well, if you can hack into my PC you can grab the compiled editions because I spent some time when I was sick recently to compile all the articles and adventures.

Is that an Arcana check, or a Thievery check?

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

Is that an Arcana check, or a Thievery check?

Diplomacy works better with me.