D&D 4e Rules Compendium in online!

[Ruin Explorer]

In each post, when you've dissagreed with me, you also seem to feel the need to somehow insult me as a person for my beliefs, or to try to enhance your own position I don't know.

Apart from the "fan-ish" one, I didn't do it purpose, I promise! That said, there are some people I'm just abrasive to, so I completely understand. For my part, sometimes I think people are looking on the bright side so hard that I instinctively feel the need to ground them a bit, and I can be somewhat over-rough in doing that.

What does this have to do with the content of Scribble's posts? It's condescending and pedantic. Discuss the message, not the messenger.

No, it's not. I point out the mispellings and typos because they're evidence of typing extremely fast and not thinking about the post or previewing it, which in turn lead to his accidentally misinterpreting/misrepresenting my position. At no point did I pick out the typos etc. and pick on them, nor would I, because that would indeed be pedantic.

 

[Fifth Element]

For my part, sometimes I think people are looking on the bright side so hard that I instinctively feel the need to ground them a bit, and I can be somewhat over-rough in doing that.

I daresay it's not your place to do that.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I daresay it's not your place to do that.

Oh the hypocrisy. But now Hong's coming off ignore, I have spare slot, and you know exactly what you're doing!

 

[Fifth Element]

Oh the hypocrisy.

Yeah, teach those optimists a lesson!

 

[Fifth Element]

No, it's not. I point out the mispellings and typos because they're evidence of typing extremely fast and not thinking about the post or previewing it, which in turn lead to his accidentally misinterpreting/misrepresenting my position. At no point did I pick out the typos etc. and pick on them, nor would I, because that would indeed be pedantic.

You could argue that it wasn't pedantic, though I notice you didn't refute my assertion that it was condescending. But that's enough of that. I'm out.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Hey, look - I could delete almost an entire page of comments without losing anything from the topic!

Well, not quite... but I'd appreciate it if y'all would get back on topic now and stop arguments.

Thanks

 

[catsclaw227]

Thank you, Plane Sailing.

 

[Miyaa]

Here's my problem, which is based from a livejournal blog about the same thing...

The guy argues that DDI wants to be something that is Better than Free that it needs to be better than what is available for free or even from other paying services. He's not impressed with their options, especially the gamer's board which when he wrote looked very unimpressive, moving tokens around a virtual white board.

It's still not that impressive. And there are other free services or items that look even better. PCGen, even if it's not going to be using 4.0 will get some rogues doing something like that. There's also Fantasy Grounds which can be tailored to 4e playing without too much problems, plus it looks better too. If you have the books and a decent SQL or spreadsheet program, you might not need to have the compendium.

The only thing that is "irreplaceable" is the Dungeon and Dragon magazines, for $15 a month or $119 a year. DDI really needs to show that it can outdo what has been out there already, or what might come around as a response to DDI.

 

[Hussar]

Miyaa, there's one part of the equation you're forgetting in all that.

The RPGA.

Sure, I could do RPGA modules on Fantasy Grounds, but, what's going to happen is they will start the new Living campaigns, the Living RPGA players will sign up to the DDI, be able to use the DDI character vault to track their characters and away they go.

The RPGA report recently talked about critical mass for the Living campaigns - the point where you have enough players that anyone, anywhere in a Triad area has access to a Living campaign. The critical mass for an online Living campaign is only about 1000 players - that's about 200 groups, or a new game starting every hour of every day.

EVERY WOTC Living campaign had that many active players. Each.

That's what's going to drive the DDI. And having these online tools are just the added bennies. DM's for the RPGA don't need online monster tools because they're running modules. And the RPGA modules will be designed with DDI in mind - automatically released with maps and minis. Same with Dungeon modules if they're smart.

That's the missing piece that you aren't looking at.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Has the pay part of DDI gone live? I ask because I'm getting a 500 error.