Online Character Builder is LIVE!

Not impressed.

It is sluggish and overall really badly laid out. Horrible amount of wasted space. :):):):) off, I don't need a little random picture next to each class to somehow demonstrate what that class is.
No mouse wheel or keyboard controls.

Things that are not in the new CB that used to be in the old version


You can only have 1 weapon assigned to a power card at any one time. Even powers that are dual weild powers don't properly list the attack and damage for both attacks. Powers that can be used for melee and ranged (like twin strike for instance) can only have one of the versions listed at any one time.

No holy symbol slot. You have to equip it in your hand!

No summary of feats - you have to click on each one individually to read the text.

Rituals are just listed in the equipment section with all your other stuff.

Non magic items can't be shown as item cards (I had ritual components as cards so I had more space for keeping track of what was mine, the parties etc)
Can't make a blank item card - useful for so many things.

Can't rename items - yes, thats about as far as item customisation went in the old version but it was really useful.

No custom portait - wtf! You can't even have no portrait.

No customisation on the character sheets. Both of the character sheets are really ugly and have so much wasted space. Whats with the massive amount of white space down the right hand side?

None of the character sheets show the calculations for what they are doing liek it did on the old sheet.

Can't remove flavour text from power cards.

The item selection screen is awful. You have to choose a weapon category, then a weapon both from drop down lists, then you can look at the stats on that one weapon.

For comedy - made a quick 2 weapon human ranger. Made it auto pick feats at first level. Sheild finesse and power attack
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That said there are some bits I like.
I like the new second page for feat, racial and class features. The old sheets didn't show enough.
Apart from the :):):):):):) no customisation etc I said above I like the new style power cards. They are much cleaner.
I ummmm like the skill select when creating a new character. Before you had to click skill, click choose skill. Now you just tick tick tick. Well you would if it didn't pause for 10 seconds after each click. Really I am clutching at straws of things to like here.
 

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I keep trying to load the demo of the CB but I can't find the link to it!

Oh, wait, that's because there isn't one... OMG! I better give them money right now or else I'll never know what it's like!
 

Yes, I can finally make charecters on my work PC.

No, I could not get it to become a pdf.

Otherwise, a little slow, and the math seemed right.

Oh, and "choose for me" super bad (and not the good super bad). But I guess it was like that before?
 


This is a hot mess.

Ignoring the hilariously long list of issues, many of which are basically just "woops it doesn't work" (Guess they decided to cut down from twenty characters to two!)...

Feats don't have a summary, so you need to manually click and scroll though every single one to see what they do.

It calls back to the server every time you make a selection. Annoying as hell, to put it lightly.

None of the "new styles" looks like the old one. Hey, who needs to see what all your modifiers are, anyways?

Insanely buggy, insanely crash ridden.

Mages can't take wizard powers.

Hybrid characters can't be imported over.

In fact, check out more here!

Exactly how I predicted, this software wasn't even close to being ready for release, and they pushed it out anyways. It's a buggy mess with issues spewing out. It's completely and utterly inferior to the original Character Builder in just about every way

But hey, on the bright side, their feature of "You can't download it" works just as advertised!
 

Can anyone answer this...

In the old CB, when you go to the feat section, it showed you "recommended feats", then racial feats, then class feats, then all the feats available to you. I really like that. Is the online CB set up the same way?
 

I'm giving up - this thing doesn't work at all. Whatever I try, I get either "session timed out" or the whole thing just freezes up. What a load of rubbish!
 

It's not worth the money

I remade my monk in the game I currently play in.

*Human, not able to choose a second language
*Not able to choose where weapons are equipped
*Centered Breath Fortitude increase is incorrect

Still broken AND less functional??? Sign me up!
 

Can anyone answer this...

In the old CB, when you go to the feat section, it showed you "recommended feats", then racial feats, then class feats, then all the feats available to you. I really like that. Is the online CB set up the same way?

I got recomended feats on one test (mage wizard) and not another (08 ranger). In each case got class and racial, then a big wad of other, then more subcatagories, like multiclass and I think the ones in the Heroes of books.

In general feat selection is one of the weakest bits.
 

Can anyone answer this...

In the old CB, when you go to the feat section, it showed you "recommended feats", then racial feats, then class feats, then all the feats available to you. I really like that. Is the online CB set up the same way?

Yes by default, you can organise it in other ways as well. The search function seems to be better, if a little slow, showing every feat that meets the search string, much like the MB one does.

Over all I actually like it and have yet to have many problems beyond lag. The only real error crash was when I picked ritual caster for a Mage (eWizard).
 

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