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Thanks, mudbunny. There are still some major issues with the software -- e.g. there's a memory leak that happens whenever you select a monster, even without going into the editor -- but it's nice to have at least some explanation of what development made it through before the axe dropped.

Just be glad it wasn't Sunday, when Comcast's DNS servers exploded (again), knocking out their service across large swaths of the Midwest. That interrupted the online video games I was in the middle of, but luckily I was able to entertain myself by building up a new experiment in the offline...

How on Earth is that counter-evidence? If anything, that's proof that they don't want to support the original Fighter anymore and want to shift to Essentials-only. Why else take something that already existed and port it to the Essentials format?

This is accurate, but they also mentioned that they will not be updating the old builder. So basically it's the same situation we got with the Character Builder, except that they're telling us up front that they're behind schedule and that the final product is going to be buggy as all get out...

This example is fantastic. It's also, however, pretty extraordinary as compared to the guidelines & framework suggested in the book. As a result, I really haven't done much with Skill Challenges -- I have used the occasional Obsidian challenge to some success, but by and large I just wing it...

Amen to this. The memory leaks in Monster Builder Classic are atrocious, even putting aside the fact that the MM3 update broke a lot of the rules elements and screws up math every 20 minutes. Protip: If my PC can run recent video games on their highest settings without batting a proverbial...

I've been a subscriber since release, and I'm going to try to cancel at the end of the month; I want to grab this last issue of the magazines before I end things. I'm not really sure why that is, since I only ever use the feats (after they've been added to the now-dead CB) and the art...

I almost certainly would've, for one; that announcement would've indicated that our subscription money was going towards duplicating existing functionality in a new, less-convenient format, while dropping a handful of existing features. As it stands, we're close enough to the 16th that I'll...

Piratecat, I love you, but this is a little ridiculous. You bought devices from a company that PRIDES ITSELF on being incompatible with as many industry standards as it can get away with. If you're upset that third-party software doesn't work on those devices, then you were either misinformed...

Yeah, I have to say I'm pretty underwhelmed by this. This seems like a case of saying "Yes, the old character builder had lackluster house rule support, but the NEW one has no house rule support! Hooray!" and so on and so forth. But frankly, online-only is a huge huge issue. I don't ever...

That's how my group has been doing it as well, and I intend to keep doing it going forward. After all, the death saving throw system was built into 4E specifically to give players a way to stay engaged (even if only by rolling a die) and a way to maybe get back into the action (by rolling a...

This would be awesome. I've had Dread for over a year now and still haven't run a game, partly because it's just so intimidating since I have so little DMing under my belt, and what I have done has all been D&D 3.5E or 4E -- so a fair bit different in terms of tone and pacing. I've been trying...

In a lot of ways, this would be a good way to do it. Where you run into trouble is with the more mundane stuff like looting through someone's office, which doesn't really fall nicely under any of the existing skills.

That's actually half of my point. Pre-essentials, a lot of making your character great at was he does involved sideways improvements in the form of feats, racial abilities, or strong secondary & tertiary stats. By moving to floating stats, you instead give players umpteen chances to go the...

I completely agree. I spoke with my DM earlier, and our conclusion was really that the initial 4E races did a great job of giving each race a distinct flavor while still offering some flexibility, but this really change detracts from the former to benefit the latter where it just doesn't seem...

I'd like to echo this. I just played in a Savage Worlds game last night, and one of my Edges allowed me to go for another attempt whenever my initiative was bad. (Initiative is done per-round in Savage Worlds, so this is a pretty big deal.) It was a ton of fun to see that benefit pop up over...

I have two big pieces of advice. First, don't spend all your feats and powers working on your healing. Healing is an important part of being a leader, but it's not the only part of it and it probably isn't even the most important part of it. Second, if you want to reference CharOp but are...

Yeah, they've added contrast and cleaned up some of the icons to make the general look and feel a bit nicer. That's good, but I hope that they also cleaned up some of the memory leaks in the software; that's probably been the biggest issue for me so far. It looks like they did a pretty good...

I have no idea what a Colossus of Laarn does, but in a case like this, I would say that a player choosing to use Thievery as a minor action would, rather than neutralizing the Colossus, simply gain the knowledge that using standard-action Thievery checks would allow for a potentially great...

Yeah, this is where I really don't understand where KM is coming from. So you had a bunch of sorcerers who thought that magic was cool and maybe someday they could use a bunch of magic to turn into giant dragons or something. In doing so, they suck the Feywild dry of life. But that's not...