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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5437563" data-attributes="member: 2011">I let my subscription lapse when WotC stopped supporting the offline Character Builder.I was doing the yearly subscription and although there were some minor issues like WotC never improving the CB interface (simple things like not auto-selecting the drop downs for the user to speed it up, or to allow the user to decide to auto-add beta material or not) or the normal power creep (especially in Essentials, but also in some of the other splat books), I have bought most of the 4E material and have used it in my game.But, I have a lot of free time when I do not have online connectivity. WotC dropping support of the offline Character Builder means that I have to pay them the same for losing a major part of what I was paying them for.I used the Compendium quite extensively when I was subscribing, but I found out that I only need to use it to do a query now. Since I have all of the books, I use Compendium to query which book something is in and then I just go look it up in a book, or bring up a fake PC in the offline CB to look up details. The Compendium is faster with a subscription, but I don't really need it.I also have a ton of Dungeon adventures and most of the published adventures, so I don't need Dungeon. And Dragon lost its appeal to me years ago. I only occasionally read Dragon.To bring me back on a permanent basis, they would need to re-support the offline DM tools (note: they do not have to be the current CB or MB, just a version that has everything in it). I think that they could do this if they just wrote their tools in something like Java and had a web applet version and a PC based application version of the same tools.And because I feel that WotC did a bait and switch on me here, I was purchasing most of their products. Now, I am being a lot more selective.</blockquote>

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