Ampersand; Monster Builder!

wedgeski · Jul 6, 2009

Shemeska said:
What I find funny is that the preview is subscriber only.

I hope I'm around on the day that you finally think of something *positive* to say in a DDI-related thread, Shemeska.

The screenshot does look nice however.

Ah! There it is!

Kzach · Jul 6, 2009

Piratecat said:
It's not; I know the design staff (Bruce Cordell, at least) is using it internally. I predict two-three months before it goes live, enough time to get and incorporate internal feedback as it's put through its paces.

We had far more previews of a 'working' character visualiser and VTT. Even working versions at Gen Con for people to play with; what happened to them?

Zaukrie · Jul 7, 2009

They are dead, we've known they were dead for some time, what is productive about continuing to bring it up?

Stalker0 · Jul 7, 2009

Kzach said:
We had far more previews of a 'working' character visualiser and VTT. Even working versions at Gen Con for people to play with; what happened to them?

If WOTC had really failed with the DDI then I could see the point of these comments, but the DDI has been pretty successful so far.

Sure its had failures, god knows I was disappointed to lose the gaming table. But the character builder has been very good, with only the occasional bug, and regular updates. Dragon and Dungeon have done well, we are seeing lots of new online content, etc.

I think WOTC has done pretty well by us so far with DDI, let's try to be positive on this one.

malraux · Jul 7, 2009

Kzach said:
We had far more previews of a 'working' character visualiser and VTT. Even working versions at Gen Con for people to play with; what happened to them?

WotC has learned that they shouldn't even preview software until they are sure the bugs are essentially gone.

Henrix · Jul 7, 2009

Zaukrie said:
Given these two sentences, and the comment above about DM month being this month, I'd place money on it being this month or next:

I don't think we shold take the DM month bit too seriously

I doubt they've coordinated any releases with Shelly's funny column.

And I don't find it unreasonable that the first serious hints about the Monster Builder are released for subscribers - I'm sure we'll see more previews, open to everybody.

My only gripe is that I want it now - like before next monday!