D&Di - Monster Builder Beta Launch Announced

[DerekSTheRed]

I created one of my favorite (read obscure) NPCs from Birthright. He's a metal humanoid leader of Orogs and his body becomes white hot during battle. It would be nice to have a place for Lore rolls and to add custom keywords as well. Page numbers and references would also be helpful.

I would really like to see a power builder as well. I've tried using some of the free ones out there, but they are all lacking so far.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

In 20 years as a businessman, I've never held a position of fiscal responsibility in which executive management or shareholders accepted "it's not easy" as an excuse for leaving 10% of the revenues behind.

You are not following the argument to its conclusion. "It#s not easy" means "It will cost more money". And then it stops being 10 % of the revenues, it becomes a lot less, possibly even a negative number - you make less money because you spend more money.

Unlike computer game developers, WotC wouldn't be delving into the unknown by developing for the Mac. There's no question a Mac audience exists; there's no reason to believe or suspect that Mac users don't play D&D, unlike with computer games. This is not a speculative audience--it's an audience that currently exists, currently plays D&D, and currently wants to pay for DDI.

You can quibble over percentages (and I do: I buy the 3.36% number only if you count every cash register and business server in the country as a personal computer), but the bottom line is the number of Mac users is pretty analogous to the number of women who game. Sure, they're a distinct minority, but would anybody really argue that it makes good business sense for WotC to tell each and every existing female player to go take a flying leap?

There might be only 10 % of gamers that are women, but about half of the total population are women. Anything that is designed to appeal to women also is a hope to tap into that half of the population, and attract a larger audience.

But Mac users are just 10 % of the already existing gamers and maybe less percentage of the total population. You don't really get to grow your audience, and that audience even has access to the software, if they jump through some hoops - hoops that they have to jump through for a lot of other software, too, so it's not like you need to buy Parallels and Windows XP just for DDI. (It's not like you need Parallels at all, in fact, Bootcamp will do.).