DDI Monster Builder preview hidden in this month's Confessions of a Full-Time Wizard

fissionessence

First Post

• Jul 24, 2009

• #1

As always, I enjoyed this month's Confessions of a Full-Time Wizard article. However, I expect this is a column many people might skip. I also expect many of those same people are interested in the DDI Monster Builder.

If that's you, give this month's column a shot; Shelly gets Peter Schaefer to let her use the Monster Builder, and she recreates a childhood imaginary friend/monster. It has several tidbits about the program that I won't spoil here, since that would kind of ruin the point of me encouraging you to read it

EDIT: Changed the title so that 'monster builder' is at the front instead of 'Confessions'.

~ fissionessence

 

Last edited: Jul 24, 2009

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Rechan

Adventurer

• Jul 24, 2009

• #2

Oh, Shelly. You're so silly.

I wonder if Shelly's columns have had a positive impact on bringing in girls and the hip types.

But that's another topic.

 

CharlesRyan

Adventurer

• Jul 24, 2009

• #3

I'm not a girl and I don't think you'd mistake me for hip, but I get a big kick out of her columns.

It's refreshing to see a different view of things!

 

vagabundo

Adventurer

• Jul 24, 2009

• #4

Hmmm monster creation goodness.

I fear this will be the death of the DM elite; if everyone can make custom monsters some of our mysticism will be taken by the secular masses - those damn players...

EDIT: Count me as a Shelly fan too, I always chuckle.

 

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White Tornado

First Post

• Jul 24, 2009

• #5

Rechan said:

I wonder if Shelly's columns have had a positive impact on bringing in girls and the hip types.

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I have tried to get my girlfriend to read Shelly's columns, but she is "too busy" . It's a shame, I love them big-time!

 

avin

First Post

• Jul 24, 2009

• #6

"fter the program loaded, I scanned the list of monsters from the D&D Compendium, noting several monsters were left out. "

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A beta thing or something on purpose?

 

vagabundo

Adventurer

• Jul 24, 2009

• #7

avin said:

A beta thing or something on purpose?

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Possibly they do something that is not compatible with the alpha program.

Or it could be a snap shot for testing and is missing a copule of months of updates. Like the MM2?

 

Scott_Rouse

Explorer

• Jul 24, 2009

• #8

avin said:

A beta thing or something on purpose?

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She may be referring to Monster with Glasses, Bee Monster, and Red Monster

 

Henrix

Explorer

• Jul 24, 2009

• #9

Scott_Rouse said:

She may be referring to Monster with Glasses, Bee Monster, and Red Monster

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Are you implying they won't be in the beta version? I hope they are in the final version, at least.

 

Ktulu

First Post

• Jul 24, 2009

• #10

Scott_Rouse said:

She may be referring to Monster with Glasses, Bee Monster, and Red Monster

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No, no; this is too obvious and doesn't cast WotC in a bad light.

They obviously left out every monster I wanted in there. This product is no longer worth my time and I'm going to cancel my DDi subscription that I've paid for a year in advance on, thus making my knee-jerk moot.




It was a very cool article. Shelly reminds me of a friend who used to game with me (also a girl, and also with the funny). It's too bad she moved out of the group.

--Side note: I wonder how far out the builder really is. At least once a week we have been given some sort of information on it, plus images and such that make you believe most of the back-end must be finished (I work in software development; you don't usually show the enhancment to your clients until you're close to production). I'm banking on a 30-60 day window.