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<blockquote data-quote="OchreJelly" data-source="post: 4639063" data-attributes="member: 62056">QFT.&nbsp; A million times this.&nbsp; The encounter builder was actually what tipped the scales for me to give DDI a try.&nbsp; When I read about the encounter builder, the first thing I thought was, &quot;Oh this will automatically produce those nice statted encounters like in their printed adventures.&nbsp; This is useful to me!&quot;.&nbsp; Well I was disappointed to see it go halfway there.&nbsp; I can try this &quot;hidden button&quot;, but if they are going to the effort to link to the monster entry, how much more difficult would it be to program it to print out full encounter stats automatically?&nbsp; It's a usability no-brainer to me.As a side gripe, my reluctance to try DDI was mostly grounded in the idea of paying for something that I didn't pay for under third edition.&nbsp; My old process for adventure prep involved me mining the monster entries in the SRD to put into a Word doc.&nbsp; I was already used to getting it for free.&nbsp; I have since come around, mostly because the price point isn't bad, and they have added value since third edition:&nbsp; namely the stat blocks are just better at the table, and the fact that the monsters come from everything officially printed, not just the MM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OchreJelly, post: 4639063, member: 62056"] QFT. A million times this. The encounter builder was actually what tipped the scales for me to give DDI a try. When I read about the encounter builder, the first thing I thought was, "Oh this will automatically produce those nice statted encounters like in their printed adventures. This is useful to me!". Well I was disappointed to see it go halfway there. I can try this "hidden button", but if they are going to the effort to link to the monster entry, how much more difficult would it be to program it to print out full encounter stats automatically? It's a usability no-brainer to me. As a side gripe, my reluctance to try DDI was mostly grounded in the idea of paying for something that I didn't pay for under third edition. My old process for adventure prep involved me mining the monster entries in the SRD to put into a Word doc. I was already used to getting it for free. I have since come around, mostly because the price point isn't bad, and they have added value since third edition: namely the stat blocks are just better at the table, and the fact that the monsters come from everything officially printed, not just the MM. [/QUOTE]

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