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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7175318" data-attributes="member: 7006">I don't know yet.  Probably not on initial release because my two current Curse of Strahd campaigns are still going and I doubt I'd want to transfer all my player's PCs and stuff over to it.  I'd rather wait for a fresh campaign so that my new players could start with their characters in the system from the beginning so they can learn how DDB works as they go.That being said... paying a subscription doesn't bother me.  I happily paid for a D&D Insider subscription the entire length I was running 4E games because the character and monster builders were fantastic, and I still use and pull from the stack of 4E adventures I got through the online Dungeon Magazine for my 5E games.Buying the books "again" also doesn't bother me, because I haven't been buying any other D&D books since barely any have been released.  That was why I made my joke way back earlier in the other DDB thread.  People are complaining that they don't want to have to buy the books "again" even though they would actually use the material in this new format... and yet never seemed to have problems spending HUNDREDS of more dollars buying 3E or 4E books each and every month, only to maybe use one or two things from them (if any at all).  Sure, that material was "new"... but if you don't actually USE it, whether or not its new or old doesn't matter.  Old material that I will actually use in a new and easier way is much more useful than new material that does nothing but sit on a shelf collecting dust.The question for me then becomes whether the format with which I receive this old material is useful to me.  And for that, I'll want to see what DDB produces first before I buy.  Will it produce and print character sheet styles I'll actually like?  How wieldy or unwieldy will spell lists and spell description sheets be for any potential spellcaster PCs?  How efficient will encounter builders be, and will I be able to print various monster statblocks together on single sheets of paper?  These are all things I currently do myself in Microsoft Word and Excel, and my format works pretty well.  DDB will need to be at least on par with what I already have, and hopefully be faster to produce.  At the end of the day, my tables are still paper-based players, so anything in DDB has to be able to be printed out from the system and how clean, concise and efficient those pages are will be what really determines whether or not I subscribe to it.</blockquote>

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