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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4095419" data-attributes="member: 50987">Well, I *was* very excited about moving up to 4E, and so was my gaming group...but then we started doing the math.  Now we have decided that we will be staying with 3.5 indefinitely...at least for another couple of years.  Since you asked, I'll tell you why.My 3.5 game is played online, for no monthly fee, using FantasyGrounds software.  It would seem that to play 4E online, we will each need to subscribe to D&D Insider...which will be around $15 per month, per player (or $75/month for our gaming group).  The lack of an OGL will make it very hard to shop around for competitors, and the lack of an SRD will make it very hard to tweak FantasyGrounds to support 4E.On top of that, my 3.5 Edition campaign has druids and barbarians in the party, and relies heavily on a couple of monsters that aren't in 4E (or at least not yet, such as the frost giant).  I don't expect it will be very easy to just house-rule them into a game on D&D Insider.Druids, barbarians, and frost giants might be coming along in later books, and that is fine.  And I seem to remember a podcast saying that new material in later-released books would be immediately accessable on D&D Insider by entering a code...which also sounds great.  But if that means everyone in the group having to buy a copy of the new book in order to log into the same game with one druid, I will have mutiny on my hands.  (I know that we haven't been told yet if this will be the case...but this hypothetical scenario sounds plausible to me.)3.5E is paid for, has no monthly fee, and does exactly what we need.  It looks like we will be staying with it until 4E can do likewise.</blockquote>

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