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<blockquote data-quote="bargle0" data-source="post: 5366907" data-attributes="member: 76212">Yes, an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impasse" target="_blank">impasse</a>.&nbsp; Wizards has the means to go to a digital-only subscription-based distribution model.&nbsp; They have withdrawn access to material before, recently, with the removal of RPGA material from the Compendium.&nbsp; Wizards has already made radical changes to the way they present the game including the publishing of Essentials, dropping support for the existing CB tool, and other smaller measures.&nbsp; I believe that if they go to a digital-only subscription-based model, then we will be in a position where they will withdraw access and we will have no other means to get at the material.&nbsp; I gave no time frame for this possibility.Yet you believe that the mere suggestion of this conditional is irrational.&nbsp; If I had suggested at the dawning of the 3.0 era that Wizards could end&nbsp; Dungeon and Dragon as physical magazines and turn them in to&nbsp; subscription-based digital content, would I be called irrational?&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; If I had suggested at the dawning of the 4.0 era that in little&nbsp; more than two years, Wizards might scrap the at-will/encounter/daily&nbsp; power structure for certain new classes?&nbsp; My contribution here is no&nbsp; different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bargle0, post: 5366907, member: 76212"] Yes, an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impasse"]impasse[/URL]. Wizards has the means to go to a digital-only subscription-based distribution model. They have withdrawn access to material before, recently, with the removal of RPGA material from the Compendium. Wizards has already made radical changes to the way they present the game including the publishing of Essentials, dropping support for the existing CB tool, and other smaller measures. I believe that if they go to a digital-only subscription-based model, then we will be in a position where they will withdraw access and we will have no other means to get at the material. I gave no time frame for this possibility. Yet you believe that the mere suggestion of this conditional is irrational. If I had suggested at the dawning of the 3.0 era that Wizards could end Dungeon and Dragon as physical magazines and turn them in to subscription-based digital content, would I be called irrational? Maybe. If I had suggested at the dawning of the 4.0 era that in little more than two years, Wizards might scrap the at-will/encounter/daily power structure for certain new classes? My contribution here is no different. [/QUOTE]

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