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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5079198" data-attributes="member: 82106">I believe it is $5.99 a month if you pay for a full year. IIRC $7.99 a month for a 3 month subscription and I don't recall exactly what 1 month is, somewhere around $9.99 or something like that. Personally I think its well worth it. The Compendium alone is pretty valuable. I have the majority of the books but there are certain ones I didn't bother to get and its nice to have access to that content. Being able to just search and instantly find something is a huge time saver. Need some magic items to throw into a treasure parcel? Pretty easy when you can just go in and list say all level 10-12 weapon enchantments. Dungeon and Dragon do have a lot of good articles too. I haven't read more than a fraction of them all and there are fair number that probably aren't interesting enough to bother with, but you can always come up with some interesting ideas and some stuff like the articles on skill challenges and whatnot are well worth reading.Being able to run characters through CB is also very useful. Often I find that players in my game have missed stuff and having printouts of their powers and whatnot is always handy. The players have come to rely on those sheets a good bit too. Its not perfect but it is a good time saver.Monster builder is definitely worth having as a DM. Its much easier than hand building monsters. The ability to go through powers of existing creatures and pull them into a new creature or to use them to customize another existing one is again a good time savings. Having printed out monsters saves a lot of page flipping during combat too.I really haven't messed with the encounter tools. It would be great if we had free tools that were this good, but for the most part they don't exist and the DDI stuff complements some of the free stuff pretty well. I think as time goes on and more free tools pull data out of the Compendium etc it just gets better. DDI may not have delivered everything WotC thought it could do YET, but what it does it does pretty well. I think they're on the right track and its worth the money.</blockquote>

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