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I rather enjoy the program. My only beef is the horrendous official character sheet it outputs all your character's info into... Not to mention the power cards that aren't formatted to even fit all of a power's info, so that some info trails off into oblivion.
EDIT: Oh, I was also a little put off by the fact that my male genasi had to settle for a female portrait...
EDIT: Oh, I was also a little put off by the fact that my male genasi had to settle for a female portrait...
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The only issue I have is that you can’t equip both ranged weapons and melee weapons and have it calculate your powers both ways where applicable.
For example, if I make a ranger who dual wields I can still use a bow with ranged powers. Unfortunately the sheet only allows me to equip one set of weapons at a time and if I equip swords, the sheet calculates the bonus on my ranged powers as if I’m unarmed....
Also, I'd love to see something more like Shado's character sheet than the default WotC one:
The only issue I have is that you can’t equip both ranged weapons and melee weapons and have it calculate your powers both ways where applicable.
For example, if I make a ranger who dual wields I can still use a bow with ranged powers. Unfortunately the sheet only allows me to equip one set of weapons at a time and if I equip swords, the sheet calculates the bonus on my ranged powers as if I’m unarmed....
Actually, there are options for customizing this on the character sheet. You can create a section which displays calculations for the powers you want with the weapon you want.
It's verry cool.
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I rather enjoy the program. My only beef is the horrendous official character sheet it outputs all your character's info into... Not to mention the power cards that aren't formatted to even fit all of a power's info, so that some info trails off into oblivion.
EDIT: Oh, I was also a little put off by the fact that my male genasi had to settle for a female portrait...
The character sheet fields also have the info trail off when space could be used below it. I already submitted a bug report about it
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I keep on getting the following error message when I try to use the Character Generator. I think I installed .NET sp 1 correctly, but I'm not the most computer savy person. I've reported the issue to WoTC, but does anyone have any solutions for this layman?
The error message:
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Could not load file or assembly "System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKey Token=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
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Hmm, I missed all the character sheet customization functionality. Very cool. I see now how to add weapons the basic attack section, but it doesn't look like you can edit the power cards which I would like to be able to do.
I also see that my bow information is now appearing on my ranged power cards. I must not have saved it before.
It could use an export function. They mentioned something about a forum code output, but only as a summary. I'd like a full text output, for sharing over things like simple email or something.
Disregard my earlier post, my .NET 3.5 sp 1 did not install properly when I first tried it. Re-ran the setup.exe and its working fine now. This thing looks awesome.
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Very awesome! Was easier to install on my Macbook using Parallels to run Windows XP than on my big powerful desktop running Windows Vista natively. No problems on the Vista box once installation was complete, but my Macbook had to turn off DirectX emulation or else it crashed almost right away. Also, I can't seem to change the portrait without a blow-out (although, this COULD be because Parallels is emulating a non-DirectX capable vid card?)
Anyway, AWESOME program. So much to like, its hard to pick a favorite feature. My DM asked me to generate some characters for him as a favor and using the auto-generate feature had nine characters for him in about 20 minutes. Probably aren't optimized, but hey, thats still pretty good!
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My main PC is Vista 64, so it won't load here yet, but my laptop is XP and it works great. I was prepared to be bummed out by suckiness, but as it turns out it is super awesome.
You know, I hadn't even considered the idea that the Character sheet was editable!
I guess we're going to see a lot of people producing alternative versions of that.
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You know, I hadn't even considered the idea that the Character sheet was editable!
Hehe, for a moment I read:
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You know, I hadn't even considered the idea that the Character sheet was edible!
I suppose you need food coloring ink and wafer paper or something like that.
A use scenario might be: When a monster swallows your character and kills it, the DM gets to eat your character sheet...
You could also use it for spell cards / power cards, reflecting their "consumable" nature.
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I really like it, a lot. I'm very excited to see the full version with support for all levels and source materials. So far, though, it definitely exceeds my expectations. Good job Wizards!
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It also seems that the DDI downloader for .NET 3.5 SP1 hangs up, while the direct version from Microsoft many work better and a little quicker.
.NET is a slow thing.
The builder itself shouldn't take too long once .NET is fully registered and you have rebooted.
I kinda assumed when I set my computer to "automatically update to latest everything" that it did that already. I guess I'll find out in a few minutes.
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I kinda assumed when I set my computer to "automatically update to latest everything" that it did that already. I guess I'll find out in a few minutes.
You did that with Windows?
So you will be restarting sometime after New Years then?
Hopefully it does get SP1 and not just 3.5 since SP1 may not be an upgrade but just a new package in their list.
I have seen Windows skip things before when I tried to let it update everything. I hope your case is not the same.
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You did that with Windows?
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