Arashi Ravenblade
First Post
Forget it. My money isnt going to a online magazine type thing. Whatever their doing.
Who is interested in the Digital Initiative?
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The idea on its own, taken outside of the current cluster-f is one that does intrigue me so I will be taking a look at it.
My 3 concerns as of this moment in time are
-What will be the payment structure and will I be able to opt for only the items I'm interested in or will it be all or nothing
-WotC's track record when it comes to handling the internet, pdf's and message boards is less than stellar, and I have strong doubts regarding their ability to create a "great" DI
-WotC's vision seems to be heading in the direction of needing access to your computer (and internet) in order to play a table top rpg. A direction that does disturb me.
My 3 concerns as of this moment in time are
-What will be the payment structure and will I be able to opt for only the items I'm interested in or will it be all or nothing
-WotC's track record when it comes to handling the internet, pdf's and message boards is less than stellar, and I have strong doubts regarding their ability to create a "great" DI
-WotC's vision seems to be heading in the direction of needing access to your computer (and internet) in order to play a table top rpg. A direction that does disturb me.
Kae'Yoss
First Post
I put in Forget it, as it is closest.
I might actually be interested, but it had to fulfill the following requirements:
* The price would have to be reasonable. If I end up paying the same I pay for a subscription to Dragon, that's too much. There is no printing or shipping involved, that has to cut down on the costs trastically
* It would have to be downloadable and usable offline.
* It would have to be usable even after I stop paying them money each month. That means that once I paid for some stuff, that stuff would have to be usable by me forever.
* It would have to make full use of the medium. If it's just a couple of articles, I'm not interested. I want hyperlinked rules you can search, filter, export.
* It would have to tie in with their books. If I pay for their online initiative and have, say, the spell compendium, I should have access to electronic versions of all those spells, so I can filter them, search them, export my wizard's spellbook onto PDF, print spell cards for the my sorcerer, and so on.
* It would generally be sufficiently awesome to make up for their bad history with electronic tools and overcome the distrust they have earned by taking out Dragon and Dungeon.
Since I doubt that will happen (I doubt that it will be half of what I expect it to be), I can safely vote never.
I might actually be interested, but it had to fulfill the following requirements:
* The price would have to be reasonable. If I end up paying the same I pay for a subscription to Dragon, that's too much. There is no printing or shipping involved, that has to cut down on the costs trastically
* It would have to be downloadable and usable offline.
* It would have to be usable even after I stop paying them money each month. That means that once I paid for some stuff, that stuff would have to be usable by me forever.
* It would have to make full use of the medium. If it's just a couple of articles, I'm not interested. I want hyperlinked rules you can search, filter, export.
* It would have to tie in with their books. If I pay for their online initiative and have, say, the spell compendium, I should have access to electronic versions of all those spells, so I can filter them, search them, export my wizard's spellbook onto PDF, print spell cards for the my sorcerer, and so on.
* It would generally be sufficiently awesome to make up for their bad history with electronic tools and overcome the distrust they have earned by taking out Dragon and Dungeon.
Since I doubt that will happen (I doubt that it will be half of what I expect it to be), I can safely vote never.
Aeolius
Adventurer
If they make the downloads PDFs instead of some proprietary format that requires Windows, I might take a look. Lock out the Mac users, and we get VERY vocal. 
If the content includes material for GH, then I might take a look. I have no use for campaign-specific information for other worlds.
If this ties in with 4e, then I might take a look. I skipped most of 2e, so I might skip 4e as well.
If the content includes material for GH, then I might take a look. I have no use for campaign-specific information for other worlds.
If this ties in with 4e, then I might take a look. I skipped most of 2e, so I might skip 4e as well.
EricNoah
Adventurer
I said undecided ... I am quite interested in tools that will help with the "information flow" problem inherent to a complex game with lots of fiddly bits that interact with each other. That would be quite helpful. If there's a solid character generator, a monster stat generator (for templates, adding class levels, and advancing monsters), a calculating spellsheet maker, hyperlinked rules (like a d20srd.org but with "everything" instead of just the open content), constant revision and updating and correcting, a wiki/messageboard/e-mail tool for my gaming group, a "find a game" or "find a player" type service, dice rollers ... I could be very interested in that. But I am not particularly interested in magazine-type content delivered electronically. Nor am I interested in a virtual tabletop.
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