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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 4156216" data-attributes="member: 18549">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."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.</blockquote>