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Legend
I'll subscribe to the DDI once three conditions have been met:
1) I've actually tried 4e, and like it. For the moment, since I haven't actually played the game, I'm reserving judgement, and so won't be subscribing to DDI or buying any supplements.
2) The complete suite of software tools is made available. In particular, the Virtual Tabletop is an absolute necessity.
3) At the time that the first two have been achieved, the community of DDI subscibers must be 'big enough', and the reviews of the software must be 'good enough'. Both of these terms are deliberately vague - I'll make the final decision at the time.
If it were just Dungeon, however, then there's probably nothing they can do that would make me subscribe. I don't like reading large articles on a computer screen, and I'm not going to go to the trouble of printing them out.
But, just for the sake of argument, let's assume some sort of good ePaper tool was available...
To get me to subscribe to eDungeon, they would need to completely relaunch the magazine, complete with a six month free trial. Very few of the eDungeon adventures thus far have grabbed my attention, which is fairly damning, I think. Additionally, the six month free trial would need to include at least the first four parts of a new Adventure Path, that would need to be mechanically sound and sufficiently interesting to leave me thinking "I must run this".
(That six month free trial may be an unfair requirement. However, I would want to be assured of getting a good product - where 'good' is defined according to my own entirely arbitrary standard - and since there's no obvious mechanism to allow people to browse an individual magazine before purchase, I think that's the requirement I would have.)
1) I've actually tried 4e, and like it. For the moment, since I haven't actually played the game, I'm reserving judgement, and so won't be subscribing to DDI or buying any supplements.
2) The complete suite of software tools is made available. In particular, the Virtual Tabletop is an absolute necessity.
3) At the time that the first two have been achieved, the community of DDI subscibers must be 'big enough', and the reviews of the software must be 'good enough'. Both of these terms are deliberately vague - I'll make the final decision at the time.
If it were just Dungeon, however, then there's probably nothing they can do that would make me subscribe. I don't like reading large articles on a computer screen, and I'm not going to go to the trouble of printing them out.
But, just for the sake of argument, let's assume some sort of good ePaper tool was available...
To get me to subscribe to eDungeon, they would need to completely relaunch the magazine, complete with a six month free trial. Very few of the eDungeon adventures thus far have grabbed my attention, which is fairly damning, I think. Additionally, the six month free trial would need to include at least the first four parts of a new Adventure Path, that would need to be mechanically sound and sufficiently interesting to leave me thinking "I must run this".
(That six month free trial may be an unfair requirement. However, I would want to be assured of getting a good product - where 'good' is defined according to my own entirely arbitrary standard - and since there's no obvious mechanism to allow people to browse an individual magazine before purchase, I think that's the requirement I would have.)
