D&D Compendium reader on Palm Pre ...

[Jeff Wilder]

I noticed tonight that an organization called Ghoti Media has released a Palm Beta app using "official" WoTC APIs to read and display the D&D Compendium. The app is available for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi. (I imagine there's a similar app for iPhone and Android?)

I don't play 4E or have a DDI subscription, but the interface looked pretty clean from the screenshots. Anybody tried it? Think you'll get real use out of it at the table? Just out of curiosity, BTW, is the existence of this app any draw at all toward the Palm Pre? (Disclaimer: I have a Pre and love it.)

I recently installed the HTML pages of a beautifully formatted 3.5 SRD on my Pre, and by loading a third-party web server managed to access the SRD (and any other local HTML I care to load). It's amazing. I doubt I'll ever get any actual use out of it, since we're going to be playing M&M and SWSE in the near future, and we'll be using Pathfinder as our D&D when we return to D&D, but ... well, it looks incredible, and I woulda used it like crazy when we were still playing 3.5.

I love RPGs and I love gadgets.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

That's cool - at least it would be if I had a Palm.

I think RPG companies have to figure out if they can actually create this kind of themselves...

 

[Scribble]

I'm really hoping to see something similar for my Droid.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I'm really hoping to see something similar for my Droid.

You will. My guess is that it'll be very soon. There quite a bit of "well, my phone can do this" competition among the various smartphone OS developers. I'm surprised Android didn't beat webOS to the punch, honestly.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

The default Android browser used to be able to do the compendium very well, but along the way wizards changed some stuff and now it won't.

 

[Pseudonym]

It'd be nice if this existed for the Blackberry too.

 

[Mercule]

Where is this? I haven't seen it in the catalog or on the homebrew stuff I watch.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Where is this? I haven't seen it in the catalog or on the homebrew stuff I watch.

Palm Beta app feed (which I get via Preware).

 

[ghoti.media]

Hi there!

I stumbled across this thread eaelier and figured I might as well say hello.

I'm the one who wrote the DnD 4e Compendium (Ghoti Media isn't really an organisation so much as just me). It was written basically to fill a need in my own gaming group; most of our characters were built with the WotC tool and even if we owned all the necessary books I doubt we'd be able to bring them to every game.

the functionality is pretty basic at the moment, but I'm more than happy to take suggestions and comments on board. I've only had my own requirements to satisfy so far, and some feedback would be very welcome.

As for versions on other phones, that's unlikely. I've been working on the Pre version in my spare time, and the investment required for any other smartphone (both time and money) isn't something I'm able to commit. The API is available on the Wizards site, though, so I'm sure someone with the time, experiences and resources to make an iPhone, Android or Blackberry version would be able to put something together in short order.

Finally, thanks for the interest - I really appreciate that people have noticed the app, and I'm keen to hear any input from other players.