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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 6170599" data-attributes="member: 73683">It is worrisome that you equate the use of a laptop or tablet at the gaming table as a reference tool with D&D becoming a computer game. Why is this? Does this strike you as a reasonable thing for you to have said? What makes something a computer game? Is your definition so broad that a game of Trivial Pursuit with your friends becomes a computer game if you use your smartphone to generate the "cards" that you read off to the people you're playing at your kitchen table with? If so, is that a very useful definition, given how broad it is?This seems to me like you're hiding behind semantics.What's the reasoning behind this? (Let's assume, for the moment, that the existence of a subscription does not preclude you going out and purchasing a permanent physical copy of the RPG should the subscription service ever be discontinued, and that the subscription service provides tools or functionality that is extremely useful.)Well, yes, of course you have to like the system to get use out of its online tools. I don't think anyone thinks differently.</blockquote>