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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skyscraper" data-source="post: 5600416" data-attributes="member: 48518">I tend to agree with you. I've abandonned my core books and have stopped buying new books altogether since their lifespan is about a year at most before they have enough errata to become obsolete.I do not mind errata that much, honestly. I'm sure anything made by man can be improved over time, and the rules modficiations and other errata in 4E seem sound to me.One thing that irritates me is that DDI doesn't precisely offer all that the books offer. For example, try to browse through DDI to get a general explanation on combat rules. It's not there. You can find something specific in DDI when you use one or another search term, but nothing general. And now, they've removed the entire class description of each Essentials class in the compendium, to leave only the level 1 information. So if you want to know something about a class evolution, you need to log into the Character Builder and jump in-between that and the compendium; or you can buy the books and jump in-between them and the Compendium (for updates).I'm unsure what it is that Wizards expects its clients to do: maybe buy the books in the first months after they come out, and then refer to online content for specific information found in the books? I admit that their marketing strategy is obscure to me; and as a client any one of the proposed solutions (the books, DDI, or using both back-and-forth) is unsatisfying.</blockquote>

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