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Actually, I think it was the right way to go. After the VTT was scrapped, they did an poll of their customer base and figured out that a working character builder and monster builder should be their first priority. They announced that, then announced the CB, then delivered. By doing this...

This edit changes my answer substantially. There's talking to your customers via press releases or other public announcements, and then there's market research. The problem with public announcements is that the feedback isn't as complete as Wizards might need to make the product better. For...

I think the timing is meant to coincide with the recent release of the online CB, but I don't think it's a reaction to it's lukewarm reception. Rather, I think everyone involved knew that the change to online only wasn't going to go over well. So they planed to announce the change, implement it...

1) It has errata for the various conditions + other miscellaneous errata. 2) It's not as flimsy as pre-4e screens. I don't have access to mine right now, but it almost feels like it's made of plastic, not cardboard.

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Seekers of the Ashen Crown was the Eberron Adventure that came out last year for sale. It's not an RPGA adventure.

Knowing Wizards, if they did that, there'd still be an "xx" in the announcement. Doesn't 3.5 still have PCGen? I've never liked it's interface, but the program works. (And isn't it available for Pathfinder?) Also, I believe that Hero System has a fairly robust Java program. I think GURPS has...

That was my first thought. I just checked, there is no text in the PDF of my 1st level Half-Orc Barbarian, in the sense that there is nothing my PDF view recognizes as text. It's just one big image.

Mostly, I just like public polls. Probably the same thing I do with all the information I read here, use it to discuss things that interest me. Hardly. I don't have an ax to grind. If the new CB doesn't meet your needs, I'm the last person on Earth who should get on someone's case about...

So, it's been out for about 24 hours now. Do you like it? I do. I didn't experience a lot of crashes. I thought once that it was calculating something wrong, but it turns out it wasn't. It meets my needs for the moment. That said, I'd like to see something more...ummm...full functioning.

Well, sort or. Essentials Classes are available when you choose the DS campaign setting. If you set things to sort by source (like when choosing a feat) HorFL shows up first usually. Odd, but there you go.

Probably. But it only crashed on me twice on my first PC. No other problems since.

Ugh I running the CB in Safari 5 on a laptop running Mac O X 10.6.5. I created Ugh the Barbarian, a level 1 Half-Orc Barbarian for my Norse campaign. I originally created him in the old CB, but rather than import him, I just built him from the ground up. Not bad. I had one crash, when I...

True. I'm starting to see why you have over 11k posts.

I don't know. A lot of the new player's I'm encountering are buying the PHB and using that. The RC (and the book from the DM's kit) are actually a little disappointing in that area. For example if you want the vehicle rules, AV is the better place to find those. Probably the rule I look-up the...

I give out rituals and magic items as treasure so this doesn't seem to apply to me. I mean, it's not like the PCs have to buy a new magic item after every encounter.

You know, Savage Species didn't see a lot of use at my table, but I like this idea. For the most part, playing exotic species in 3.x was problematic because of 1) level adjustments sucked, and 2) 1HD =/= one Character level. Now that those problems are gone (because there's no longer the idea...

I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with you. It's always been my understanding that an opportunity attack was a kind of opportunity action. I.e., that there were other (or would be other) opportunity actions that weren't opportunity attacks. IIRC, this was clearly stated in the rules...