Presumably because they are owned by twitch and it gives them a pre-existing structure to use.
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Twitch is popular and primarily used for video games, so therefore it is evil...What's the difference between signing up for a twitch account or signing up for a DDE only account. I don't see the problem there at all. I never had a twitch account, the sign up didn't have me leave the DDE website at all. No fuss. What's the problem?
Anyway, yeah, the compendium part is about what I expected. Nice filters, the spell, monster, and magic item lists will be super useful for me to quickly look things up. This was the easiest phase, however, as it's just text and filters. the Builder will be the true test.
First Impression: yup, this is a pretty version of the Hypertext SRD.
Second Impression: That's pretty much it. Not much else to say for this phase...
Twitch is popular and primarily used for video games, so therefore it is evil...
There is no option to download anything, it's just the Web interface at Phase 1.
[FONT=&]Will the content only be available while the device is connected to the internet? Will there be some offline capabilities?
[FONT=&]I can’t talk about that part quite yet, mostly due to the fact that whatever I say at this point would be met with more than a healthy dose of misconception in the community. We have a license that does not restrict how we deliver the tool set – it allows us to provide it using any technology on any platform. All will be explained on that front soon!
What I can say is that we are fully aware of the offline capability concerns and are working to mitigate those concerns. I know that convention (or sometimes deep basement) Wi-Fi isn’t reliable and I can assure you that people will still be able to play their characters in those circumstances.
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Not a big fan of Twitch's policy on accounts. Be forewarned if you use a VPN, they will insta-ban your account simply by being associated with certain VPN IP addresses, even if you have don't nothing untoward whatsoever. In other words, create an account. A month later accidentally log in while connected to VPN on their ban list. Get entire account instantly banned, no warning. Really turned me off Twitch.
Surely you can see why they have that policy, though. A ton of spammers, harassers, and so forth use VPNs to make multiple accounts and circumvent IP bans. I see it as a net gain for the user experience.