Boarstorm
First Post
Searching is a thing. Paper can't ever do that.
It's not perfect, but that's kind-of what an Index is.
Searching is a thing. Paper can't ever do that.
A-freakin-men.Because, in my opinion, it was awful. I'd get annoyed about every 30 seconds while trying to use it. Good riddance to Silverlight and the slow, bloated platform it created.
Is this news -- From the Fantasy Grounds website ultimate licence product description page.
* Included Rulesets: D&D 3.5E, D&D 4E, D&D 5E and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.xcp?id=SWK03
Given the timing it seems to me as if certain milestones were not met. Being burned by being to generous and extending deadlines during the company failing with the 4e tools, it seems they learned their lesson and ended the partnership instead of letting history repeat itselfjust when I thought WOTC was moving into a new age. Can't wait to read the reasoning behind this move.
No, not really. A search doesn't show you every time the author thinks the word was used. It shows you all of them.It's not perfect, but that's kind-of what an Index is.
Well, an app that just uses the Basic rules isn't going to cut it for most folks, now will it?
Consider engineering an app that handles the entire ruleset, including all updates and supplements in the future, Do so without making your data too easy to pirate (so, say, plain-text files of the rules is right out). Do so on multiple platforms. Do so that it can be used by a few tens of thousands of people without falling over....
There is a bit of a difference, architecturally, between what a couple folks can do, for a small population of app buyers, and what a corporation can do for a flagship product. The support expectations of the customers will be entirely different.
Two programmers can make an app. If WotC does it, it has to be more like a piece of enterprise-software.
No, not really. A search doesn't show you every time the author thinks the word was used. It shows you all of them.
Maybe I'm too optimistic, but to me this looks like a setback. I risk to say we'll definitely get an official online character generator and compendium at some time. I doubt the line will crash and burn for a temporary lack of digital tools- most gamers I know IRL play strictly without them.Whatever your feelings on Dungeonscape and its usefulness to you personally, I think this cancellation is another black eye for our hobby and its most recognizable game.
It's not just Silverlight, though. IMO, the approach taken by both WotC and Trapdoor on D&D technologies is fundamentally wrongheaded. Both of them tried to program in all the rules of the game; to have the computer not just keep track of your character/campaign data, but also apply the rules to that data.