Yeah, this.
Despite them being really badly coded and designed programs and despite the severe limitations of the compendium search tool, if anything a DDI subscription is incredibly undervalued at just $10 a month.
DDI Online Gametable - Reality or Myth?
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Yeah, this.
Despite them being really badly coded and designed programs and despite the severe limitations of the compendium search tool, if anything a DDI subscription is incredibly undervalued at just $10 a month.
wedgeski
Adventurer
Universal balance demands that I say that the tools are neither badly programmed or designed, IMO... however I agree with Kzach's conclusion. The DDI is an outright bargain.
I have not used the monster builder much, though the one monster I build was easy to create.
I use the character builder all the time, I have seen very few bugs in recent releases, it is intutiative to use and stable so what exactly do you see wrong with it?
As for the Compendium, I generally manage to find what I am looking for, it could be a bit more elegant but its ok and I would prefer that they put their efforts in to the tool.
wedgeski
Adventurer
And I am a programmer who disagrees with them.I know a bunch of programmers who'd disagree with you
Looking at what we know of the in-house dev staff at Wizards, how much time they had to turn the DDI around after the external lot were given the shove, and the extremely high quality of the applications they're now producing, I see output which has defied the constraints it has been put under, met or exceeded every expectation, and given the current edition a major and unique selling point.
Character sheets are game-specific. Map tools are generally not. Unless your map is somehow directly linked to the 4e ruleset, they'd have no basis for C&Ds.
Hussar
Legend
Well, looking at the frameworks that they've created for 4e, plus the character generator that builds the tokens, I'm thinking they are breaking IP nine ways from Sunday. There's no way that's not violating copyright. 
I'm thinking that so long as they're not charging money for it and WOTC has no competing product, WOTC will leave it alone. But, when the VTT hits the market, you'll see a lot of house cleaning.
I'm thinking that so long as they're not charging money for it and WOTC has no competing product, WOTC will leave it alone. But, when the VTT hits the market, you'll see a lot of house cleaning.
I don't expect to see the VTT at all. The Monster Builder has not even come out of beta yet and they have stated they are working on 1 tool at a time. If everyones guess is right, the Monster Builder is only 1 of 4 or 5 tools in the Adventure Tools package. It has been 6 months or so since we have known about that tool. Add them all together and we would not see the VTT even being worked on until 2011 or 2012.
I would also venture to guess that when it comes up for consideration again (whenever that is), they will do a questionaire and point out that more people want some other tool.
I would also venture to guess that when it comes up for consideration again (whenever that is), they will do a questionaire and point out that more people want some other tool.
Dannager
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Programmers tend to enjoy picking apart supposed flaws in program design that the average user doesn't notice, much less care about.I know a bunch of programmers who'd disagree with you
I know a bunch of programmers who'd disagree with you
And I am a programmer who disagrees with them.
And as it turns out, DDI was coded by a bunch of programmers.
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