D&D Insider - My main beef

[mach1.9pants]

It's the first edition I've ever played RAW.

Snap, apart from my first few months of BECMI before I became DM

 

[Jack99]

Ah well. Gotta love incompetence.

That's not very nice, think of all the other Canadians on this board.

 

[RangerWickett]

That's my wife's complaint about the system as well. I like so many things about the game that I've accepted it as an acceptable evil, but it continues to chafe a little.

Yeah, there's a lot I dig about 4e, mostly on the GM side of things, for planning adventures and such. But its aesthetic really didn't match the games I want to run, so, well, . . . I've always been a house rule aficionado. I've basically gone and rewritten 4e and condensed all the classes into about 30 pages of options, with heavy reliance on page 42. I'll be starting a new campaign with the rules later this month.

So the Character Builder has very little value to me, but now that I've got a bit more disposable income, I might subscribe to get Dungeon and Dragon.

 

[renau1g]

Yeah, it chafes me more and more these days.

You should really get a cream for that before it gets too bad

Seriously though, it does suck, but nobody's forcing you to use the CB so it's a very good tool for having all of WoTC's stuff at your fingertips, but they must have rationalized that it won't improve their bottom line (or at least less so than other alternatives), so left it off their high priority list.

 

[renau1g]

That's not very nice, think of all the other Canadians on this board.

Yeah, like me... I have no issue with the paypal(maybe it's my proximity to the US border though)....

 

[Dice4Hire]

More evidence for my theory that DDI is causing almost as great of a rift in D&D players as 4E did itself.

If people use DDI, of course you are going to be playing by WOTC's rules, and the RAW ones, not RAI. That is a given, and considering how WOTC is digitally and with IP, I cannot see them ever making 3PP or house rules an easy part of the DDI experience. It makes little sense for them to do so. A lot of work, and work which will lead people away from their 4E.

Luckily a handmade character sheet in a human campaign can still do whatever can still use whatever house rules or additions are deemed necessary.

 

[MrMyth]

Speaking as an inveterate hacker, tweaker and modify-er of several decades standing (gosh!), I have to say that 4e is the hardest to house rule of any edition of D&D on anything other than the most trivial of levels in my experience.

It is one of the reasons why I gave up on it.

Cheers

Really? I'm certainly also curious what house rules you ran into issues with. I admit, I've only really done house rules in 3rd and 4E, but in 3rd Edition it always felt like flying blind, without any way to tell how much a house rule would shatter the system; whereas changes in 4E have been much easier thanks to the visibility of the rules and the numbers.

 

[amysrevenge]

Yeah, like me... I have no issue with the paypal(maybe it's my proximity to the US border though)....

Whereas while I have no problems with DDI subscriptions, I have non-DDI-related problems with PayPal. lol

 

[RangerWickett]

I got a PM requesting I post this, so let me attach my work in progress. The bulk of it is the new character building system, though some stuff consists of just changes I want to make for my own game. The red text, in particular, is just plain wrong, but I haven't had time to fix it.

 

[Markn]

Thank you, kind sir!