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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tquirky" data-source="post: 3893005" data-attributes="member: 57293">The assumption might be that you'll be playing a lot online, using the virtual miniatures you've bought from them.One drawback is that this is relatively easily rendered redundant by someone out there making a freeware clone of the paper and pencil D&D online software, because official miniatures are much less of a need for play with regard to D&D than official cards are for M:tG.  Lumps of coloured glass make excellent D&D miniatures, for instance, and the digital equivalent will be easy to create as well.  Free will probably trump pretty.  (Note that there's plenty of precedent - there's already been a lot of movement on these fronts for freeware for playing both M:tG and D&D.  This is a natural consequence of geeks being the target market I guess.)Building new D&D IP protected rules into the client may be one way to attempt to close that door...e.g. by making WOTC's character creator the only legal one available which has all the new stuff in it.</blockquote>