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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5239705" data-attributes="member: 82106">Nope, It doesn't replace anything. A LOT of the text of the core books and a pretty decent amount of the text in the power books related to new features simply do not exist in DDI. But then DDI was never advertised as a replacement for anything. Its a good reference and for the most part during play you won't need to look up the rules for familiars or beast companions. If you do, well having some books handy is always a good idea. DDI is a great reference and I find it a huge boon at the table, but I also have a shelf of books handy if I really really need to do some actual rules research. The warlock decides to cast his funky new daily power I'm not exactly sure what it does? I can just pop up the browser window and have it in 30 seconds, surely faster than going to the book and flipping pages and probably faster than passing a character sheet around. Also very handy when building adventures, etc. When new books come out, you really do still have to read them.But what did we expect? DDI was never advertised as a replacement for anything, nor would it make a lot of sense for WotC to make their own books obsolete. I'll agree with WalkingDad though, it would be NICE if you could get a PDF of the PHB with all the errata. Its not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. Having the changes in DDI and an update PDF is next best thing though. Not having any updates at all would be the least best.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5239705, member: 82106"] Nope, It doesn't replace anything. A LOT of the text of the core books and a pretty decent amount of the text in the power books related to new features simply do not exist in DDI. But then DDI was never advertised as a replacement for anything. Its a good reference and for the most part during play you won't need to look up the rules for familiars or beast companions. If you do, well having some books handy is always a good idea. DDI is a great reference and I find it a huge boon at the table, but I also have a shelf of books handy if I really really need to do some actual rules research. The warlock decides to cast his funky new daily power I'm not exactly sure what it does? I can just pop up the browser window and have it in 30 seconds, surely faster than going to the book and flipping pages and probably faster than passing a character sheet around. Also very handy when building adventures, etc. When new books come out, you really do still have to read them. But what did we expect? DDI was never advertised as a replacement for anything, nor would it make a lot of sense for WotC to make their own books obsolete. I'll agree with WalkingDad though, it would be NICE if you could get a PDF of the PHB with all the errata. Its not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. Having the changes in DDI and an update PDF is next best thing though. Not having any updates at all would be the least best. [/QUOTE]

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