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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 3314812" data-attributes="member: 1457">We already have a WoW-like experience with D&D classes, races, and monsters: D&D Online, by Turbine. That's a whole other topic. I'd just like D&D to offer--in addition to hardcover books--well designed online tools with polished interfaces. Assume that any person has a finite entertainment budget, in terms of both dollars and time.  Those seven million WoW players are each spending $15/month, plus (on average) 20 hours per week. Those are big drains on the limited budget, leaving few dollars and hours for D&D.More and more people prefer MMORPGs because you do more stuff in less time. In a four-hour D&D session, you might get into four fights and advance 1/4 of a level. In the same amount of time in an MMORPG, you've accomplished a dozen quests, gotten into hundreds of fights, and advanced at least 1, probably 2 or 3 levels. I state the above not to get into a debate over whether MMORPGs or TT RPGs are objectively "better", but to suggest that people prefer to spend time *playing* rather than flipping through books and deciphering rules. So keep the hard-bound books for bathroom reading. But give players polished tools that remove the burden of busywork, allowing them to spend more time on actual gameplay.I'm going to out on a limb and guess that the dwindling cadre of old-school gamers--the same guys that ranted against the debut of 3E--will reflexively reject any hint that WotC might offer online options for players. That's fine. To survive (and grow!), D&D needs to attract new customers. The easiest way to do that is to present the game in a way that's familiar and user-friendly.-z</blockquote>

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