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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6099293" data-attributes="member: 82106">Without the Compendium things would be a lot tougher. Every day or two I use that thing. I'm constantly either on there talking with a player deciding what sort of power or whatever they're going to get, or looking up an item I gave them last week because they didn't write it down, or figuring out what I'm going to play in an online game, etc. I could use the CB for some of it, but that thing is slow, and frankly as a DM I just don't need to mess with it. I have the players do their own sheets and email me a copy. So I could live without CB, as a DM. MB is more useful, but frankly I have made up very few new monsters in the past year or two. If I do make one it is so far from standard that it is hard to even use MB for it (puzzle monsters and weird stuff). There have been long periods when I didn't even have Windows anyway, and couldn't even use MB/CB and didn't really miss it much. There's also access to Dragon/Dungeon, which is NICE. I know people complain about them, but honestly, while there is somewhat less content than 4-5 years ago the quality is MUCH higher. Not all the adventures are brilliant, but many are at least decent starting points. For instance the Message in a Bottle adventure from a December isn't BRILLIANT, but it is NOT bad, really a simple side trek. The PCs happened to be sailing around, so I basically tossed in elements of it, used a couple of the characters and locations. I don't do it a lot, but I do find ideas or specific encounters I can steal moderately often. SO, if DDI went away would I quite 4e? Well, I wouldn't go back to 2e, nor am I inclined to buy 3.x or PF at this point. I figure 4e is no harder to play than PF even without a master index. They both have tons of stuff out there. I might be motivated to try some indie FRPG, I don't know. Currently I have 2 campaigns going, both in Heroic, and I expect at least one of them will go for another year. The other will be paragon soon, if we all get back to it as it seems to be on hiatus the last month or so.</blockquote>

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