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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6863393" data-attributes="member: 20564">Such as ad hominem attacks?Yes, I was clearly communicating anecdoal evidence.  In every case I referred to "I", "me" and "my experience".  I am unsure how you can read that and think it applies to everyone.It looks like your second logical fallacy was to set up something I didn't say and claim I did in order to knock it down. That is also incorrect, but in this case your math is bad instead of having a logical fallacy.  At $10/month subscription, and part of that offset by the other material in the magazines given, even if only one $30 sourcebook every few months was skipped, it was still a savings.Oh wait, you're wrong another way.  If ANY of the material was worthwhile, the subscription would get it for me vs. the purchase price.  So I don't need the whole book to be good, just a part I wanted.  For more information about my purchase patterns:  I purchased SCAG for 5e and haven't cracked it open except to the character build options because I'm not playing FR right now.So you were wrong twice there.  I could count a third time that you don't get to judge for me what I felt like purchasing, but you've got so many clearly wrong statements that I won't confuse it with a fuzzy one.Wow, another place you're wrong.  I specifically pointed out that I was judging it from the publishing rate of the earlier edition.Once I was already multiple months in an multiple books down, there would have been a debt to purchase all of thsoe books to get caught up. Well, something you said that isn't wrong.  Well, perhaps wrong that WotC saw it as a viable business model so evidently some people wanted to, but considering the eventual backlash from it I'm inclined to let your statement stand.Incorrect.  Your math is correct this time, but the conclusion that their publishing model being bad means that their total content is bad is another fallacy.  Being able to pick and chose between all the books, having other tools that helped me at the table like the Compendium, all of the additional material in the magazines that I couldn't get without the subscription, having useful tools like the character builder, and having everything KEEP UP WITH 4e ERRATA - that can be worthwhile.And in fact, I found it more worthwhile them buying any of the books that came out after I subscribed.</blockquote>

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