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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art the DM" data-source="post: 7274768" data-attributes="member: 6897125">Fair pointsEveryone who has commented has brought up some fair points. I appreciate the discussion, and I do understand that the part about orcpub was, indeed, speculation on my part. True enough.As a writer and someone who dabbles in independent film, I understand intellectual property all too well. I am a firm believer in paying for the IP of others, hence I own HARD copies of everything rather than hitting the torrents to find it and going to town at Kinkos. What I am not fond of is paying for something twice, something I already own. I also understand that the devs of D&D Beyond need to get paid too. However, there are other ways to accomplish this without forcing your customer base to buy the same product multiple times in order to unlock it's content. Rather than making us buy the entire book digitally, they should offer an option to unlock the content in the character builder separately, for those of us with enough respect for WotC to have bought the books rather than pirating it like most. This is the part that is most upsetting to me. The concept of having to pay twice for the same product just to use a complete character builder. I will notnsupport that end. I will continue to buy the hard copies, but I will not resign to buy the digital for the books I already bought for a higher price.Now, one or two of you have essentially accused me of laziness in a passive agressive way. I am not lazy, I do pen and paper characters. However, when I was starting out I wanted the process simplified so that I did not get overwhelmed. Also, I have a 10 year old who doesn't have the patience for the pen and paper work. Character builders have their uses, not just for the lazy, but for the inexperienced as well. This hobby, which we presumably want more people to join and enjoy, would be much easier to introduce if there was an available tool that simplified the process of getting started for those who might be otherwise put off by all the paperwork. That being said, I have now put two full days of time into custom entering all the core rulebook content into OrcPub to return it to its former glory, at least for me.My frustration is mainly the principle of the perceived expectation of having to purchase the same product twice just to use a toolset, when other options could have been possible.</blockquote>

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