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Message: <blockquote data-quote="schnee" data-source="post: 7720130" data-attributes="member: 16728">Yes, and creating a robust, stable, fast, database-driven system is not easy.Creating the interface - one that will combine data entry, search, interlinked pop-up content, all driven from a single source - is time-consuming.Re-purposing the content from their books is painstaking.Keeping servers up and paying for traffic is expensive.It's like you use Google and Facebook and Amazon and forget they literally create no content, all they do is provide tools, and they then track every single bit of your personal life and sell it to advertisers, and then you have to wade through a barrage of advertisements that are trickily designed as content. And it's 'free', while behind the scenes they make SO much money off of you and your life and your personal data.You are ALREADY paying through the NOSE for everything else on the web. Wizards is doing us a favor by charging per month and not covering the whole thing in ads.Not always. I have a few that were separate purchases. A Roguelike called 'Sword of Fargoal' for example.Because a well-done PDF would fully enable pirates to never buy a book again. Instead, they're doing some far more interesting and powerful, for the cost of ONE STARBUCKS COFFEE A MONTH.If you can't afford that, then you obviously have bigger issues in your life than 'having D&D in the most accessible, sortable, searchable, networkable interface possible' and should spend your time fixing those instead.You want things for free. Sorry. Life isn't free.</blockquote>

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