I am contemplating asking my players to cough up and split the bill on a DDI subscription. Between the 9 of us, it shouldn’t be too much. I am concerened about the technical aspects of it though. Can one account name log in twice? What if they catch two of the same account names trying to get in at the same time? etc… Maybe I’ll read the EULA to see if it speaks of these things…
I have spent money for my game buying materials to make my tokens, my custom tiles, printing things out, etc… I’ve never asked the guys to contribute because I enjoy making this type of stuff, but maybe they should pay for DDI, it is for their benefit as well.
Like a good Playboy magazine, I like the articles. 🙂
The software doesn’t interest me one bit though, since that stuff is found freely available online (for now). I wish he’d make the encounter builder and monster builder downloadable…..
What do you guys think? Do any DM’s out there split the costs of stuff with your players?
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Jeffme
March 7, 2009
Me and my girlfriend share a subscription. We both really wanted the character builder, and it comes with 5 updates a month. If you don’t update you don’t have that months rules added to it, but the builder still works. Other than that, you could almost definatly sign in with an email like “Newbiedmsgroup@___.com”. I don’t know if you could all be signed in at the same time or not, she hasn’t cared about anything but the builder.
I do know I have it installed on both of my comps, XP and Vista, and she has it on her vista laptop, and we have had all 3 signed in and downnloading an update at the same time. Hope that helps some. (also way late on the comment, but I just got into your blog)