{"id":3002,"date":"2010-06-20T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2010-06-20T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:26:52","slug":"compendium-oh-compendium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"Compendium, oh Compendium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hasbro\/Wizards of the Coast\/Dungeons&Dragons I enjoy your products very much. And you do cool stuff to make it better, like making this D&D Compendium<\/a>. At least I think it would be cool. A huge, comprehensive, searchable database of all things D&D. What a useful tool! Oh wait, it’s only useful for people who pay a monthly subscription. Boo!<\/p>\n

I get that you’re a company and you want money, and I also understand that subscription gets you more than the D&D Compendium, but come on. You are doing yourselves a disservice. This compendium is exactly the sort of thing that when offered for free encourages interest in your products and ultimately makes you money.<\/p>\n

If I knew whenever I had a spare moment or a stray thought about D&D I could plug in a quick search to the compendium and scratch an itch, I would be all over this compendium. And while I’m search for the exact wording of Feat X, I’d see there is another feat I didn’t know existed, and I’d find that it was in The Planes Below <\/em>which would get me thinking about how it would be cool if my party did x y z. And I’d search for y or z and find more things in The Planes Below<\/em> of interest to me. And then, what is your thinking? I just find everything from The Planes Below<\/em> in the compendium and copy it down on note cards? NO! I go buy your book. And you get my money.<\/p>\n

*sigh* I think that my scenerio is way more likely than someone going to your website and thinking, “Hey, neato, a compendium. Sure I’ll pay $7 a month for this.” Plus there’s general good will amongst your customer base.<\/p>\n

Ok. Rant over. I do think they’re missing out. And I really want to use the thing, but I can’t justify paying for it when I don’t even have any 4e games going. \/pout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hasbro\/Wizards of the Coast\/Dungeons&Dragons I enjoy your products very much. And you do cool stuff to make it better, like making this D&D Compendium. At least I think it would be cool. A huge, comprehensive, searchable database of all things D&D. What a useful tool! Oh wait, it’s only useful for people who pay a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[14,225],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-enjoy","category-things-i-think","tag-dd","tag-dd-compendium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}