Critique my D&D tool

[Nikosandros]

This tool looks very interesting, although I'm not sure how i woudl use it. Is it intended as a tool for players, DMs or both?

Both. As a player, you can have in front of you cards for all your powers and your items; you can customize them and mark the powers that you've used.

As a DM, it's very handy to have all the cards for the monsters in an encounter. Much easier and faster than having to cut and paste from the Compendium.

 

[Dannager]

Both. As a player, you can have in front of you cards for all your powers and your items; you can customize them and mark the powers that you've used.

As a DM, it's very handy to have all the cards for the monsters in an encounter. Much easier and faster than having to cut and paste from the Compendium.

Exactly. In the same way that a player might have his character sheet and power cards laid out before him to make it easier to size up his options during an encounter, Power2ool gives the DM that same level of supervision of his own game elements.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

I plan to make heavy use of it as a DM; using a netbook as a DM screen, I will load up and edit all necessary monsters, etc, into power2ool, and have them all right there, instead of having to flip through tabs with monsters from the compendium one at a time. This way, I can see an entire encounter at a glance.

As a player, I plan to use it to print customized power cards. It's a lot like using MSE, but much more user-friendly and updated (via compendium).

I wonder how long before WotC shuts this down because it makes their apps look like junk?

 

[Nikosandros]

I wonder how long before WotC shuts this down because it makes their apps look like junk?

Actually, I think it would be very foolish of WotC to shut down sites like Power2ools and iPlay4e. They provide an enormous added value to a DDI subscription. Consider that Power2ools is useless without logging into the Compendium.

 

[doublewumpus]

[MENTION=358]Dalamar[/MENTION] Thanks, lots of good stuff there. I'll try to work those into a release soon.

I can't get it to print either in Firefox 3 or IE?

Just says Loading Render....

Yeah..uhh...oops. Just fixed that, sorry

It keeps getting better...
Is there a way to move cards between spaces?

Not yet Working on that now.

Been using it more and it's great.
Can you make it automatically add the bonus to saves, and list action points for, solos and elites. (I realize I could do this manually, but you asked for criticism and there isn't a whole lot to criticize).
The guide for monster building is great. You could possibly add a bit more detail to it, for example listing how many attacks you should give to a minion, standard, elite, solo.

Noted

This tool looks very interesting, although I'm not sure how i woudl use it. Is it intended as a tool for players, DMs or both?

*shrug* I originally designed it for players, but them my DM friends started using it. At this point it's too far beyond what I had originally planned for there to be much intent left. Most people tend to use it for either planning out encounters (perhaps with custom or modified monsters), or browsing through powers while building a character (and then perhaps printing out their powers in a pretty way).

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

Actually, I think it would be very foolish of WotC to shut down sites like Power2ools and iPlay4e. They provide an enormous added value to a DDI subscription. Consider that Power2ools is useless without logging into the Compendium.

Oh I agree fully, but this is WotC we're talking about here - it's not like we haven't seen them pull some pretty foolish moves before.

 

[eriktheguy]

Oh I agree fully, but this is WotC we're talking about here - it's not like we haven't seen them pull some pretty foolish moves before.

Exactly, I thought about sending them an email to show them this awesome tool and encourage them to do similar.

Then I remembered that I'm not the sort of guy to send emails to companies, attend protests, or get involved in grassroots movements. And also realized that I might indirectly result in WotC sending this guy a C and D.

By the way awesome programmer guy, are you a programmer for a living?

 

[WuM1nG]

I have to say that this is very very awesome. Are there plans to release an offline version of this? The place I game at has wonky Internets.

 

[ScorpiusRisk]

Been using it more and it's great.
Can you make it automatically add the bonus to saves, and list action points for, solos and elites. (I realize I could do this manually, but you asked for criticism and there isn't a whole lot to criticize).
The guide for monster building is great. You could possibly add a bit more detail to it, for example listing how many attacks you should give to a minion, standard, elite, solo.

I think what you're asking for now is advice. There's no real standard number of attacks for powers by secondary role, especially not with the way The Monster Vault changed things.

 

[Ferdil]

[MENTION=6670472]doublewumpus[/MENTION] I mean that the "X action" rows need to be of a lighter color. Now, it is of the same color of the header, instead it should be lighter.