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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 5446805" data-attributes="member: 20564">Why I subscribe...&nbsp; Well, I just renewed in the beginning of January.&nbsp; I guess why is best summed in two words: Lock in.The first year of 4e, I purchased all the books and didn't have DDI.&nbsp; I had gotten out of two MMOs and was against a monthly subscription fee.&nbsp; However, I felt I was missing out on a lot of character-building content in Dragon.&nbsp; After checking with a friend with a subscription, most of it could be done offline (I often won't have internet access when I want to use stuff), and I went for it.And found I got a better value than I thought.&nbsp; The Compendium, which I figured as &quot;nice&quot; or &quot;cute&quot; turned out to be really useful, in games as well as prepping.&nbsp; The CB was good.&nbsp; Lots of stuff in Dragon and Dungeon, though I wasn't running so the latter was more ideas to pluck for planning my next campaign.I found that I almost never used my books.&nbsp; For character creation it was much clunkier than the CB, especially all the content in one place.&nbsp; For reference during we slowly migrated towards the compendium with all of the errata that came out.Over time, that value has slipped.&nbsp; Compendium is still great (and thank you for changing search to stay on category).&nbsp; CB is catching up to where it was but I still can't use it for multiple active characters.&nbsp; Dragon and Dungeon content are hit and miss, with some good stuff and some dry spells.&nbsp; But at this point with all of the content across so many sources and all of the errata making the physical books obsolete, I wouldn't want to try to build a character without something, and if I stopped subscribing I'd loose access to a lot of content, probably enough to put a death knell to me running 4e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 5446805, member: 20564"] Why I subscribe... Well, I just renewed in the beginning of January. I guess why is best summed in two words: Lock in. The first year of 4e, I purchased all the books and didn't have DDI. I had gotten out of two MMOs and was against a monthly subscription fee. However, I felt I was missing out on a lot of character-building content in Dragon. After checking with a friend with a subscription, most of it could be done offline (I often won't have internet access when I want to use stuff), and I went for it. And found I got a better value than I thought. The Compendium, which I figured as "nice" or "cute" turned out to be really useful, in games as well as prepping. The CB was good. Lots of stuff in Dragon and Dungeon, though I wasn't running so the latter was more ideas to pluck for planning my next campaign. I found that I almost never used my books. For character creation it was much clunkier than the CB, especially all the content in one place. For reference during we slowly migrated towards the compendium with all of the errata that came out. Over time, that value has slipped. Compendium is still great (and thank you for changing search to stay on category). CB is catching up to where it was but I still can't use it for multiple active characters. Dragon and Dungeon content are hit and miss, with some good stuff and some dry spells. But at this point with all of the content across so many sources and all of the errata making the physical books obsolete, I wouldn't want to try to build a character without something, and if I stopped subscribing I'd loose access to a lot of content, probably enough to put a death knell to me running 4e. [/QUOTE]

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