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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Burgonet" data-source="post: 5964028" data-attributes="member: 77387">I'm in the midst of preparing for an Essentials-only campaign that hopefully should start in about 4 weeks or so.As part of these preparations, I'm hoping to develop some statistics for certain major characters, monsters and so forth.With that in mind I am contemplating renewing my DDI subscription, a service I payed for back in 2009-10 but haven't done so since this time.As there's a good chance there may be either current subscribers reading or those of you who have an opinion on this subject.So I'm asking - is the current state of DDI worth a subscription and if so for how long might I consider a subscription?I'm primarily interested in having the capability to create Essentials-compatible monsters and encounters.  I never did purchase MM 3 so I don't actually have the current forumla required to create such monsters and would clearly benefit in having the ability to do this.I'm also interested in the range and scope of their existing monster database as well as the Character Builder as well to a much lesser extent.So with that in mind, is DDI a 'must buy' for running an Essentials campaign?And if not what alternatives might you suggest?</blockquote>