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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5428139" data-attributes="member: 94022">Well, I can't say that this is definitely a good thing.  Frankly, I'm sure that a big reason for this move is a general decline in sales. However, I also don't think its entirely bad.  One of the WotC guys (I think it was Huscarl but not sure) stated matter of factly that the future of the D&D brand was in digital distribution.  This was over a year ago if I recall.  He said this not as an employee but as a blogger.  Simply stating that it was inevitable giving the changing dynamic. What this move does do; however, is give them an opportunity to guage the digital/subscription based market without having to commit fully to it.  Much as the Book of Nine Swords was a test for 4th Ed. mechanics, so too could this be a test for future distribution. From a personal standpoint, I echo what a number of others have said, in particular with the crunch.  The splat books especially really have become obsolete.  Right now if I want to build a fighter, I don't pull out PHB, Martial Power, Martial Power 2, AV, and a host of Dragon articles in order to make my character.  Instead I fire up the CB and all of that is right there for me already.  I don't own either of the "Heroes of . . . " books, but I am fully able to make a Mage, Slayer, Knight, etc.   The fact of the matter is that all those books have a very minimal level of readability to me right now.  I'm just not going to read through the Fighter Chapter front to back.  I do agree that the "fluff" books are still viable in the book format as they are much more readable.  But even then I could probably survive.  Even with all of these DDI materials though, I still print out my character sheet and leave the electronic devices at home.  Nothing is forcing me to play online (unless I cannot find a group local . . . in which case, online is a great resource). Even my mom, who took roughly 3 years to figure out how to turn on my TV (admittedly she only visited a few times a year) now has a Nook Color and is taking Nook classes (at 65 its hard for her to learn something new).  If she can convert to reading her newspaper and romance novels on a Nook, I'm pretty sure I can handle a move to digital distribution as well, be it an IPad, Nook, or something else.</blockquote>

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