Character Builder is Live
- Thread starter Shroomy
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vic20
Fool
More praise
Woot. Just woot.
In my eyes, this is the most productive, practical piece of software I've ever played with for d&d, "official" or otherwise. The few hours I've spent with the Character Builder have really impressed upon me how the 4E architecture patterns dovetail with software architecture modeling patterns.
Who has the license to develop computer games for d&d again?
Woot. Just woot.
In my eyes, this is the most productive, practical piece of software I've ever played with for d&d, "official" or otherwise. The few hours I've spent with the Character Builder have really impressed upon me how the 4E architecture patterns dovetail with software architecture modeling patterns.
Who has the license to develop computer games for d&d again?
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
A few "quirks" - technically correct behavior that still has you wondering what is going on:
- Weapon Focus is its own subtab in the feats. Makes sense in hindsight, but boy, was I searching.
- The builder associates feat slot and levels, so if you are still on your first feats, you don't get Paragon Options, even if you make a 18th level character. You can still later retrain these feats later if you need to. It also seems to keep track of your ability scores over your levels, so if you only qualified for Plate Armor Proficiency at 8th level (to get your Con to 15), you cannot select the feat earlier.
This can be a little confusing at first, but it makes absolutely sense, since it enforces "legal" characters.
- Retraining by picking Multiclass feats is done in the Powers Section, as is picking the right feat.
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I noticed a few errors:
- I recreated my Dragonborn Warlord. It wouldn't show me his Paragon Path "Sword Marshall". Apparently I don't qualify for it due to the lack of "Heavy Blade Proficiency", even though I have not only military weapon proficiency but also Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword). But if you use the House Rule button, you can also show "illegal" stuff and I got my Paragon Path that way.
The ways prerequisites are checked might need to be tested more.
- There are some spelling errors. Catsclaws comment might indicate that this could be a problem if it is supposed to be a keyword/rules term like an ability score.
- There are still some powers that are not correctly formatted on the Character Sheet, for example Dragon Breath. I think that's my biggest gripe, since it makes the sheet less useful.
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Something I miss:
- A way to remove the item power cards only from the sheet. I need a shorter description or something, because I don't want to print 6 pages just for a few item powers!
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I suppose I should compile my list and send it to Customer Support or their Error Reporting.
Overall, it's fun. I think I will spend a lot of time these weeks to test-drive the app and create more PCs.
2Oldtimer: Could you figure out what they are using to create the MSI Files? I wonder if that tool is flawed...
- Weapon Focus is its own subtab in the feats. Makes sense in hindsight, but boy, was I searching.
- The builder associates feat slot and levels, so if you are still on your first feats, you don't get Paragon Options, even if you make a 18th level character. You can still later retrain these feats later if you need to. It also seems to keep track of your ability scores over your levels, so if you only qualified for Plate Armor Proficiency at 8th level (to get your Con to 15), you cannot select the feat earlier.
This can be a little confusing at first, but it makes absolutely sense, since it enforces "legal" characters.
- Retraining by picking Multiclass feats is done in the Powers Section, as is picking the right feat.
----
I noticed a few errors:
- I recreated my Dragonborn Warlord. It wouldn't show me his Paragon Path "Sword Marshall". Apparently I don't qualify for it due to the lack of "Heavy Blade Proficiency", even though I have not only military weapon proficiency but also Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword). But if you use the House Rule button, you can also show "illegal" stuff and I got my Paragon Path that way.
The ways prerequisites are checked might need to be tested more.
- There are some spelling errors. Catsclaws comment might indicate that this could be a problem if it is supposed to be a keyword/rules term like an ability score.
- There are still some powers that are not correctly formatted on the Character Sheet, for example Dragon Breath. I think that's my biggest gripe, since it makes the sheet less useful.
----
Something I miss:
- A way to remove the item power cards only from the sheet. I need a shorter description or something, because I don't want to print 6 pages just for a few item powers!
----
I suppose I should compile my list and send it to Customer Support or their Error Reporting.
Overall, it's fun. I think I will spend a lot of time these weeks to test-drive the app and create more PCs.
2Oldtimer: Could you figure out what they are using to create the MSI Files? I wonder if that tool is flawed...
vagabundo
Adventurer
Something that occured to me too, but would I ever want such a detailed NPC? Unless there was a chance that a PC might run them.
Nightchilde-2
First Post
Forgive me if this has been answered already...I'm getting kids ready for the day so I don't have the time to read to see if this has been answered yet.
I ran into the same issue. I discovered (almost by accident) that if you enter the stats into the white boxes as opposed to using the blue circles, it'll give you the Next button highlighted, though it will still say the character is not legal point-buy.
catsclaw227
First Post
I think this is key. I did this with my error and got a response back from the team with a thank you and that they would pass it on to the developers (I don't think it was an auto-response, but it was a form style response.)
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
Something which I saw as a bug might prove to be a feature for you here...
If you print the character sheet to PDF, it only prints single pages. A real PITA, as I wanted to give someone a pdf of their whole character sheet for printing, and I had to give them 6 separate pdfs.
But... it might work to your advantage (unless they've fixed that issue since the beta)
Cheers
