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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5790504" data-attributes="member: 158">Actually, the compendium and the Character builder are WHY I stopped subscribing to DDI -- they replaced a good but imperfect Character Builder with a vastly substandard one, and introduced changes to keep people from downloading their compendium via webcatchers and a valid account, and these changes subsequently made it much more difficult to actually read the online content as a whole. When they broke their own Compendium to "reduce piracy", they lost my actually monthly ten bucks coming in over a year ago and I haven't bothered with it since. I use personal tools like a form-fillable character sheet and a power builder, both completely legal because they don't have any copyrighted expressions of rules or mechanics included, and I haven't looked back.And until they fix those horrific speed and interface problems, the DDI is useless to me. So far, based on word from existing subscribers, they haven't.They make free character building tools for Pathfinder, and it still doesn't hold a candle to the official product. Hypertext SRD? Yes, there are superior versions to the PRD out there -- but again, it's basically recycling existing text (no disrespect meant to the fine folks at PFSRD.) And yes, Paizo's money is not made primarily by the rules they generate. My point is on something like a character builder, free efforts still get trumped by official "for-pay" efforts most of the time. PCGen OGL vs. the for-pay modules back when it was under license was further proof. I bought most of the big modules available back then, and would totally haul them back out for personal use were I playing in any 3.5 games any more.</blockquote>

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