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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7650751" data-attributes="member: 22424">I am fairly stunned that we haven't seen a collapse in DDI subscriptions in the last six months. I keep expecting it to happen, but those numbers just keep going up.I agree (and have said in the past) that subscriptions are the way of the future. Indeed, it looks like Kickstarter may be the method of choice for funding a one-off product (or limited-size product line, with things like GM's screens as stretch goals), while the subscription becomes the model of choice for ongoing lines, such as D&D and Pathfinder.And I don't have a problem with that, not in the slightest. After all, the alternative would probably be the cancellation of the product lines entirely, and nobody benefits from that. The one thing I do very much hope to avoid, though, is any required subscription. Indeed, even the 4e Character Builder skirts the line a bit close, IMO; it's sufficiently good that I wouldn't play 4e without access to it. So, yeah, make the subscription something it's nice to have, and I'll be delighted; make it something required, and I'll stick with what I've got.As for what I'd be willing to subscribe to... things to make prepping and running my game easier. A top-quality Monster Builder would be ideal (especially if I can modify it with my custom house rules). Campaign management software would be good, too - something to track the passage of days, to lay out NPC plots and schemes, to create handouts quickly (with a bank of built in art; otherwise, I can just use Word), to create item cards (or spell cards, or...). Oh, and an electronic character sheet, complete with buff/debuff management handling, would be excellent - several of my players have moved to using an iPad for SRD lookups, so moving to an electronic character sheet is the next logical step.There's a big but to all this, though... I play 3e, and the more I hear about 5e, the less likely it sounds like I'll make the switch. So, WotC, how are you going to square that circle?</blockquote>

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