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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5790494" data-attributes="member: 7006">Are you kidding?You might be the only person I know who seems to be arguing that Dragon and Dungeon Magazines are the reason people sign up for DDI.  Because those are the only two things you get that aren't strictly about "the rules".The Character Builder?  All about the rules.  Monster Builder?  All about the rules.  Rules Compendium?  Duh.  And believe it or not... it is THOSE three items that have inspired people to sign up.  People want programs that allow you to easily manipulate the rules to create a character, manipulate the rules to create a monster, or check out the rules quickly.  Dragon and Dungeon are just little extra things we get in addition to it.HTML and plaintext FOR FREE is more worthwhile and just as usable as the "pretty" UI interfaces that WotC has made for their programs for 6 bucks a month.  And you are downgrading the desire and skill of many of our community who would spend many of their off-work hours building these programs if they could.  Someone would make a monster builder just as a thought exercise, or because they wanted a monster builder that could add templates to monster automatically (cause that's something people have been clamoring for since the beginning of the MB).  Believe me... if someone was allowed to make these things for 4E, they would.  Even if to just "stick it" to Wizards of the Coast.</blockquote>