D&D 4e Rules Compendium in online!

[Scribble]

A search for the letter "e" appears to find pretty much everything...

D&D is brought to you today by the letter e... and the number y.

Wait, y is a letter too. drat.

 

[JVisgaitis]

While I can understand the confusion, they've always stated explained that it would not contain rules of the game, but classes, feats, races, etc. would be it's intended use.

Link? If true, that kinda sucks. The database they are using is wicked fast and it would be great to look up condition summaries and such. When I was at D&D Experience, that they said monsters will be added into the database with hyperlinks for the rules of all of their relevant abilities (Grapple was specifically mentioned). Did that change?

 

[Kristian Serrano]

Link? If true, that kinda sucks. The database they are using is wicked fast and it would be great to look up condition summaries and such. When I was at D&D Experience, that they said monsters will be added into the database with hyperlinks for the rules of all of their relevant abilities (Grapple was specifically mentioned). Did that change?

Please don't ask me fore a link. It's been in several sources, and I don't know which. Just trust me when I say it. I'm sure others who have been keeping up with 4e have heard/seen the same thing.

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

Well, color me unimpressed. I was expecting something at least as nice as www.d20srd.org. What I see isn't even usable.

Ken

 

[Kristian Serrano]

I just had a thought regarding the D&D Compendium and the GSL. The GSL restricts development of software. The GSL is designed for other publishers to create D&D compatible options. D&D Compendium probably won't include those 3PP options. See a problem?

 

[The Little Raven]

See a problem?

Wizards won't be freely publishing other people's work in their database, requiring you to actually buy the third party product to get that material?

I see it, but I don't perceive it as a problem.

 

[Ginnel]

Umm, I would hope that when I look at the rules database and type in "grapple" I would get something....

But no dice. Not useful at all.

Well its not a 3.5 compendium, Grab is the new close combat hugging of choice in 4th ed, also as stated it is not a rule compendium but if it was, you'd want to be looking for Grab, grapple as far as I'm aware only exists as a special ability on specific monsters

 

[JVisgaitis]

Please don't ask me fore a link. It's been in several sources, and I don't know which. Just trust me when I say it. I'm sure others who have been keeping up with 4e have heard/seen the same thing.

I've been keeping up with it. Maybe I just missed it, but I never saw mention of it. I'm not saying it isn't true as things tend to change quite a bit, but when I talked to Wizards at D&DXP, I asked those questions and they said it was forthcoming.

 

[Mercule]

Well, color me unimpressed. I was expecting something at least as nice as www.d20srd.org. What I see isn't even usable.

Funny. Keeping in mind that it's a beta, I think it compares well to d20srd. I like the layout, or at least what the layout suggests it will become, and the search is a lot faster.

I agree, though, with what a lot of people have said about the need for an index -- I think. For as fast as their search is, I can probably type in what I'm looking for faster than I could browse and click on d20srd.

 

[Simplicity]

Well, color me unimpressed. I was expecting something at least as nice as www.d20srd.org. What I see isn't even usable.

Ken

And how long did it take for that linkable hypertext SRD to exist after the release of 3e? Note that the SRD came out in 2000. d20srd.org? Registered in 2004. It's been a whole 3 weeks since 4e came out. Cut them some slack. There's a lot of data there.