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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6099863" data-attributes="member: 20564">The books have the art, the fluff, the permanence (you don't have to keep paying), immediate gratification, and offline usage.DDI have automatic errata, look up using the compendium (my favorite bit at the table), various tools in various states of completeness and functionality over the life of DDI, and the content from Dragon and from Dungeon, including art &amp; maps as separate image files to print/reuse.&nbsp; Content was usually 1-3 months behind.When there was new print content out regularly (1+ books per month) as well as more articles in Dragon and in Dungeon, the value for DDI was quite high for me.&nbsp; I still purchased occasion books like the one about the Astral Sea, but from a rules perspective the auto-errata on the compendium outweighed the books a lot.Now it's reversed - there's little new content in published books and the magazines are a fraction the size.&nbsp; And the magazine articles that are coming out are much lighter in crunch.&nbsp; Basically I use the compendium for rules look up and the online character builder a bit.&nbsp; If this was all I was getting I wouldn't have signed up in the first place, but I'm not going to purchase loads of 4e at full price right before groups I play with potentially switch to Next (or something else).Over the lifetime of DDI it works out to be a positive value for me, but this year's re-up so far has not been worth it in terms of new content.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 6099863, member: 20564"] The books have the art, the fluff, the permanence (you don't have to keep paying), immediate gratification, and offline usage. DDI have automatic errata, look up using the compendium (my favorite bit at the table), various tools in various states of completeness and functionality over the life of DDI, and the content from Dragon and from Dungeon, including art & maps as separate image files to print/reuse. Content was usually 1-3 months behind. When there was new print content out regularly (1+ books per month) as well as more articles in Dragon and in Dungeon, the value for DDI was quite high for me. I still purchased occasion books like the one about the Astral Sea, but from a rules perspective the auto-errata on the compendium outweighed the books a lot. Now it's reversed - there's little new content in published books and the magazines are a fraction the size. And the magazine articles that are coming out are much lighter in crunch. Basically I use the compendium for rules look up and the online character builder a bit. If this was all I was getting I wouldn't have signed up in the first place, but I'm not going to purchase loads of 4e at full price right before groups I play with potentially switch to Next (or something else). Over the lifetime of DDI it works out to be a positive value for me, but this year's re-up so far has not been worth it in terms of new content. [/QUOTE]

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