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<blockquote data-quote="Truename" data-source="post: 5346316" data-attributes="member: 78255">True.Also quite probable.The &quot;$10 for all crunch&quot; (combined with the announcement of web-based tools) is what makes me think a rewrite is likely. All the rest is just supporting evidence. Remember, it's not &quot;$10 / month subscription&quot; -- it's &quot;buy one month, download the CB, and keep using it for as long as you want.&quot; I see that advice on ENWorld all the time, and I tell my players the same thing. In addition, WotC really hates piracy, and from my 5-second Google search, it looks like the CB is very easily pirated.This is all theoretical, of course, and maybe WotC is planning something else. But a new online CB fits the evidence. So does a major overhaul to the UI of the existing product--that's what I was expecting before hearing about the &quot;web-based tools.&quot;A third possibility that fits the evidence is completely new tools and no major changes to the CB. But I'll be very surprised if that's true.(As an aside, I'm an author, and for my publisher the deal is that the retail store gets half of the cover price and the publisher gets the other half. My understanding is that's a typical arrangement.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Truename, post: 5346316, member: 78255"] True. Also quite probable. The "$10 for all crunch" (combined with the announcement of web-based tools) is what makes me think a rewrite is likely. All the rest is just supporting evidence. Remember, it's not "$10 / month subscription" -- it's "buy one month, download the CB, and keep using it for as long as you want." I see that advice on ENWorld all the time, and I tell my players the same thing. In addition, WotC really hates piracy, and from my 5-second Google search, it looks like the CB is very easily pirated. This is all theoretical, of course, and maybe WotC is planning something else. But a new online CB fits the evidence. So does a major overhaul to the UI of the existing product--that's what I was expecting before hearing about the "web-based tools." A third possibility that fits the evidence is completely new tools and no major changes to the CB. But I'll be very surprised if that's true. (As an aside, I'm an author, and for my publisher the deal is that the retail store gets half of the cover price and the publisher gets the other half. My understanding is that's a typical arrangement.) [/QUOTE]

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