Electronic resources - what do you want for D&D?

[Balesir]

I'm all for phone and tablet apps. Wizards also needs to sell PDFs of their books or at least of Dungeon and Dragon magazine that you can buy/download without a subscription to DDI though I supposed they don't do that because they're worried about piracy.

The main thing that I would wish for in WotC's digital products is that they stop being quite so paranoid about "piracy"!

If they would stop deliberately, and with malice aforethought, nerfing their digital offerings because of marketing drives or "piracy" fears or whatever and just make the best tools for the job they can design, given their obvious talents in the area and obvious love for the game, I think they would blow the "pirates" into a cocked hat. As it stands now, "pirates", competitors and Joe Blow with a spreadsheet can produce something more convenient, more flexible and more comprehensive for game play than what WotC offer. But it's not because WotC can't make their tools better, or lack the imagination to come up with winning concepts for tools or design really good ones - it's that they refuse to do so because either (a) they have 'control' issues or (b) they are utterly paranoid about the stuff being illegally accessed/copied.

It really seems to me that, if they just accepted that some copying is inevitable (it's happening already) but that most fans would be happy to pay for the best job that they can provide, they would make money. But all they will offer is compromised half-measures. So sad.