Character Builder is Live

[Admiral Caine]

I run XP and installed the first time with no problems. Easy as pie.

A good friend installed, also running XP, and it repeatedly failed to update after the 1-3 installation. He had uninstalled too. He went back, uninstalled again, deleted his characters, deleted all downloaded files, and cleaned his Registry of everything that appeated to be WOTC or DDI related.. then it installed fine. But only then.

A third friend had the same problem. He was running Vista. He did like the second friend, and then it installed smoothly.

Me? I just did the basic uninstall, and I kept my old characters to boot.

Unusual.

 

[Mengu]

After building a character, check your numbers carefully. There are still some known and unknown bugs. I'm really not trusting it yet to do all my calculations for me. I created my Warlord, and it was adding weapon enhancement bonus to damage with Furious Smash, which does not have a damage roll and should not be added.

I hate having to take a pen to the character sheet after I print it, but I guess that's the way it has to be until all the kinks are smoothed out.

 

[Shroomy]

The CB actually pointed out a pair of mistakes that I had made manually on the my character sheet, one of which I reported as a bug before I figured out the discrepancy! Sorry developers if you're reading this.

 

[Caliber]

Have they fixed the bug I reported?

Bracers of perfect shot didn't add to the damage of magic missile and eldritch blast (which it should, since they are ranged basic attacks)

Cheers

Yes, my Warlock's Bracers were included in the total for his Eldritch Blast. I'd imagine the same fix was applied for Magic Missile, although I can't verify ...

 

[disarray2]

I can't get it to retrain feats. It doesn't give me the option for anything other then skills and spells on the retraining tab. If I try do it on the feats tab it won't let me pick the higher level feats. According to the book, I'm suppose to be able to.

 

[davethegame]

I tried making a level 10 Druid, and it looked like it only showed the 1-3 level powers that were in the preview, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyone else tried, or a high level Bard or Invoker?

 

[Spatula]

I tried making a level 10 Druid, and it looked like it only showed the 1-3 level powers that were in the preview, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyone else tried, or a high level Bard or Invoker?

You can make a 30th level whatever, but there's no "new" powers contained in the Builder. Only the ones that have already been previewed.

 

[Scribble]

Hey are the characters importable into another instance of the program?

Like if say I make a dude over at a friend's place can I bring him home and do my updates and stuff at my own house? (Obviously provided we both have the full program.)

 

[Oldtimer]

Well, duh!

They still have the same installation bug I reported a month ago. Now I have to disassemble the MSI database again and fix it before I can install.

Not happy with their quality control here!

 

[mach1.9pants]

Yeah, I just noticed. This makes it next to useless for me.

How so? Just roll the dice for real (or use an app) and add it in. There are no maximums to what you put on the PC ability scores...

EDIT: AFAIK the characters are transferable as well