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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4328985" data-attributes="member: 37277">Sure, but then don't call it a Rules Compendium and market it as such for months and months.  Market it as a character creation assistant or something to that effect.Better, since they're charging, would be to add in the other rules text so that the whole thing is really helpful.  Especially considering how much they're hyping the Game Table, you would think they would be looking at ways to help those games run without requiring having a book open on the computer table.  As it is now, the DM will be required to have his PHB, DMG, and MM open and ready to go while running anything on the Game Table.  I don't know about you, but I don't have that big a computer desk.That was one of the best things about using d20srd.org - I could quickly look up a rule without it slowing down the game as much.  Even for face to face games.  Rather than go to the index and hope it references the rule you want, then page through the book to find what you need, you could simply open the webpage and a quick click or two later, you'd have everything you need.I thought, and I think most people did too, that the Rules Compendium was going to be like that.  That's clearly what they intended when 4E was announced last year, including, at the time, the possibility of purchasing digital versions of the books for a nominal fee if you already had the hardcover versions.  Obviously that when in the toilet too.The digital world is obviously not the place for WotC to try to work within.  It's one failure after another.  And this one might have been more successful if it had been marketed correctly and the right information was posted out there.  Instead, we had to wait until the day it was released to find out that they changed the purpose of the Rules Compendium.  The least they could do is change the name for advertising accuracy.EDIT - Okay - so it's not a Rules Compendium.  It's D&D Compendium.  And others in other places are saying that it was always intended to be only a player reference.  I'd like to see some links to that effect.  Ever since the announcement at GenCon last year, I've been under the distinct impression that it was going to be a total digital reference to the rules en masse.  I'd also like to add a link that supports my thoughts.  <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dramp/20080507a&authentic=true" target="_blank">Ampersand from May 2007</a>  It says Oh, and this one too. <a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dramp/20080609" target="_blank">Ampersand from June 9th</a></blockquote>

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