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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rjdafoe" data-source="post: 3717662" data-attributes="member: 54591">I understand.  The part I do not understand is your "I have made my decison already" part.The cool thing about all this, is if it is not what you want, stay with 3.5, it is OGL after all and will have support for many years to come, just not exactly from WotC.  That is the reason for it, afterall.  I understand that people feel the need to steer the process into what they consider the right way to go.  However, as it stands now, the DI is optional.  Could it be made mandatory?  Sure.  Anything can be.  They could make the miniatures mandatory if they wanted.  D&D has always been about picking and choosing what you want to have in your campaign, and I think it will continue to do that.  They have not shown any rules associated with any of the DI content.  The online tabletop is just a graphical representation of what most of us have on our tables while playing already.  Maybe some people are going to buy a projector and move their "table" to a screen.  That is great for them, and may be cheaper in the long run instead of buying minis, for them.  The articles from the DI will be as mandatory as Dragon articles.  The DM, as always, has complete control over what they want in their games.The 4E core rules (PH, MM, DMG) will be the framework of what is everyones own version of a campaign world.</blockquote>