Lonely Tylenol
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Yeah, I play in my basement and sometimes the cordless phones interfere with the signal from the wireless router upstairs. When that happens, I say to myself, "oh, can't use d20srd.org. Better open the Sovelier & Sage SRD, which is cached on my computer."SSquirrel said:Of course the bad point of the DDI database is you have to be online for that. Not a problem a large chunk of the time, but not everyone is on the internet yet or has good signal. Pdfs of your purchase downloadable w/a code sound great to me. The database makes a nice bonus for a subscription, but still do both
Under their current proposed system, it'll be more like "okay, guys. We have to wait for the wireless to kick in again or else I can't look up the rules."
Granted, that won't be a problem when I'm using only 3 or 4 books, but the more books get published, the more useful an online rules database becomes because I don't have to haul them around if I don't play at home, and they don't take up valuable tabletop space (which I find is always at a premium). However, the more useful the online database becomes, the more I'll learn to rely on it as I have learned to rely on the SRD. The more I rely on it, the more catastrophic it is when I lose the ability to access it during a game for whatever reason.
I would much rather have an electronic copy of a book I own, downloadable to my computer, and accessible in perpetuity, than access to every book they publish only when I'm on the internet and only while I continue to pay for the privilege. The one major selling point they had for the electronic arm of 4E has turned into a pretty big deal-breaker for me, at least as far as the DDI is concerned.