Character Builder is Live

[Shroomy]

Apparently, the Character Builder is live.

Character Builder is LIVE!! - Wizards Community

 

[Arivendel]

Thats sounds good, Im not a DDI subscriber but I kept reading so much complains about this because it was being delayed to no end, glad to see scott came through, interesting thing, one of the posters mentions that all clases now reach level 30 even the ones you previously had data for up to level 3, Does that mean Wardens, Artificers, Barbarians and all the others have been updated?? that would be a HUGE spoiler if true

 

[Spatula]

Found my first bug... if you have to cancel the initial download for some reason, you can't run the downloader again. You get an error that you can't have more than one process running at once (even though the download process isn't running anymore). I had to go into the registry and delete some keys to get it working again. Won't affect most people, I'm sure.

This is the list of remaining known issues that's shown when downloading the full app, if anyone is interested:
[sblock]This is the list of Known Issues with our Character Builder. We are going to work on these issues on an ongoing basis, and address them in the coming months.

Character Sheet Known Issues:

• Journal entries can’t be printed on the character sheet as a separate page.
• Dexterity and Intelligence Bonus for AC are listed under Misc section in Defenses.
• Resistance gained from feats or magic weapons do not display in the resist list field.
• Rest reset function does not reset the magic item usage check box or the death check boxes.
• When checking the "Show All weapons" option to display all weapons in your inventory on your power cards, this setting does not persist when you close the character sheet.
• Notes added to character sheet fields (like skills, …) are not printed anywhere.

Powers and Power Cards Known Issues:

• Some powers that have non-standard formats do not have their stats properly calculated in every possible cases (moonfire, tears of selune, rain of steel, unyielding avalanche, armor piercing thrust).
• Power stats only calculate attack and damage. The builder does not yet calculate the stats for the off-hand weapon in dual-wield powers, temporary hit points, nor healing. We also do not modify the power when feats or class features change the range of powers.
• Dragonborn Breath does not show details on the Power Card.
• The attack power from feral armor does not show up on a character's list of powers.

Feats Known Issues:

• Gnoll feat "Claw Fighter" does not "equip" claws, and lists unarmed damage instead of claw damage.
• The Improved Razor Storm feat adds the improved power in addition to the original power instead of replacing the original power.

Campaign Pages Known Issues:

• Check box on campaign pages should show partial selection.
• The campaign settings page does not yet have a way to make the Forgotten Realms deities count as their corresponding core deity for the purpose of taking feats (as described in the LFR rules).

Other:

• If you have used the closed or the open Beta, we recommend uninstalling these applications before installing the full release application.
• When auto-building a character higher than level one, the magic items such a character is entitled to are not auto-generated.
• Taking a paragon multiclass without having a class-specific multiclass feat (or removing it after having made the selection) will crash the application.
• To be able to select Harper of Legends epic destiny without crashing the application, you need to have a class-specific multiclass feat.
• If you character is level 13 or higher, and you have not chosen powers before you use Auto-pick in the ability page, the application will crash.
• Feral armor levels are incorrect.
• Items or equipment can’t be renamed by the user.
• Summary section should separate Rituals from Alchemy.
• Equipment, Mounts: Warhorse is listed twice, with two different prices.
• A bundled Item (adventurer’s kit, climber’s kit) can’t be unbundled and separated in different items.
• The equipment page does not have containers.
• Warforged components are not supported.
• Custom equipment can’t be assigned a weight, and standard equipment weight can’t be customized.
• Vehicles are not available.
• Alchemical ammunition is not yet implemented.
• Characters above level 3 created with the full version can’t be loaded in the character sheet viewer with the demo version.
• The spiked shield functions as a weapon but does not properly also function as a shield.

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I'm intrigued by this talk of custom items... off to experiment!

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Installing right now. According to the readme it has two of the previewed classes up to level 30! Still some known issues listed. Its still a beta release, but 1-30 for all standard classes. Woot!

(Cue some poster saying "a-ha, i knew they would screw it up).

 

[thalmin]

Thats sounds good, Im not a DDI subscriber but I kept reading so much complains about this because it was being delayed to no end, glad to see scott came through, interesting thing, one of the posters mentions that all clases now reach level 30 even the ones you previously had data for up to level 3, Does that mean Wardens, Artificers, Barbarians and all the others have been updated?? that would be a HUGE spoiler if true

These classes are not available, as yet, except for the rageblood barbarian, which was given 30 levels in Dragon 368. Material from modules and almost all of the books are included except Open Grave.

 

[Kzach]

Well, colour me impressed that they managed to get it out when they said they would.

Now to mercilessly tear it apart, bit by bit, examine every minute piece of it, and criticise it until the developers weep for mercy.

Evil? Who me?

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Still Power Card errors with the Rageblood Barbarian, but it flawlessly built me a level 30 invoker without a problem. My players will lurve this! However, there is still a lot of work to be done. But its already useful enough to cure my "aagh, eTools!" bug. I´m happy that they released the generator buggy but with 30 levels for nearly anything.

 

[Kzach]

My first major complaint. I'm a subscriber. I downloaded whilst logged in. And yet I only have the demo options :/

EDIT: Bleh, I had to restart it and redownload the full version after logging in.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Thats strange. I just downloaded it and then the Charbuilder gave me an upgrade window where i had to enter my login information to download the lateset data set.

Oh, btw, the charbuilder says that every month there is a data set coming out and that you can download the complete full version five times during that time period. So it resets after the next release - that should be enough for most groups / campaigns.

 

[Dire Bare]

Apparently, the Character Builder is live.

Character Builder is LIVE!! - Wizards Community

Great, my install already failed. I don't have time to mess with this now . . . . but it sure is frustrating that I can't even simply download and install the builder.

I keep wanting to give WotC the benefit of the doubt on this project, but I keep running into stupid problems. Sigh.

I'll try again later when not so frustrated. Grrrrrrrr.