DDI September/October Update info

[Pseudopsyche]

I'll wait to see what unfolds, but there are a number of mac users who might do the happy dance if they do make the CB a web app. Personally I don't care much one way or the other but I will dislike not being able to use a CB offline. Perhaps they will offer both?

Aw man, I for one would love it if all future apps were web-based. I just hope they are lighter weight than the main web site, which makes my iPad crawl.

If I could design monsters and encounters on my iPad or even just display them on my iPad at the table, I'd be ecstatic.

[Disclaimer: I work for Apple.]

 

[kevtar]

web based tools speculation

With all of the speculation about ebooks, silverlight, etc... it will probably be a web based version of "dungeon tiles mapper" or something silly like that. I'm curious to see what happens next, and although I was disappointed about there not being DS or Essentials in CB, this little tidbit regarding "web based tools" (and the subsequent speculation) has changed my disappointment to mild bemusement.

 

[UHF]

Before anyone lays into Wizards and their programmers they need to realize that programmers are expensive, and all the latest changes resulted in a lot of code being altered.

I for one am annoyed that this release of CB still won't have Dark Sun and Essentials. But I'm also greatful that I don't pay 4 times as much for my DDI subscription.

On the other hand Lone Wolf character builder may have support for this before Wizards;
4th Edition - Hero Lab - Lone Wolf Development

 

[Mad Hamish]

No Dark Sun in CB?

Thats absolutely ridiculous.

My buddy (who purchased the DS books) would like to run a Dark Sun game, but he can't until CB is updated so that everyone has the access they need.

BOOOOOOOO!

The Dark Sun information will be in the Compendium so people can check new races etc.
It'd get painful if people wanted to use a new class build but generally you should be able to get pretty close in the character build and modify things by hand on the sheet.
(Build the stats as they would end up for one of the new races, cross out and write in racial abilities & new feats etc)

write the Theme in pen and put details on a card

It's not ideal but you're being a bit over dramatic there.

 

[nightspaladin]

Surfarcher, where did you get that picture? i would love it for my collection of charcter pictures

 

[renau1g]

Yeah, let us (please) not go off all half-cocked on speculation about how WotC is going to kick our babies by not allowing you to use the CB when you're not online.

C'mon kamikaze, it's the internets, if we ain't going off on baseless discussions about minimal information and throwing around wild speculation what are we doing? Having a rational discourse about the information that was released? BWA-HA-HA!

[MENTION=55066]Dice4Hire[/MENTION] - re: Get your own, part of the functionality of the DDI is not requiring to own each book, your fee is supposed to cover those rules. They've delayed it, and then released it in a less useful manner (in the compendium). Why should I purchase something I've already paid for? (this is rhetorical, I plan to purchase the books for their fluff)

 

[drothgery]

I've guessed for a while that they'd eventually leverage their WPF codebase for a Silverlight implementation of their current client apps. That would not necessarily mean online-only, but that could be pretty likely, or it could be a hybrid WPF/Silverlight client. Silverlight would definitely solve the cross-platform problem (re: OSX).

Pretty much. Non-Windows, non-OS X users pretty much don't exist as far as desktops and laptops go. Which just leaves the iPad for devices that aren't so small they'd have to completely redesign the UI, and there's MonoTouch for that.

 

[surfarcher]

Surfarcher, where did you get that picture? i would love it for my collection of charcter pictures

I just googled "+eladrin +sorceress" at images.google.com and that one caught my eye... The player loves it too Not sure where the original is but the full-sized one with the touched-up eyes is at http://www.compsand.com/users/rhedden/Caelynna.jpg

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

She really reminds of Deedlit from the old anime Legend of Loddoss... wouldn't be surprised if that was the inspiration.

That said, I can't see her lower lip quivering.

 

[the Jester]

Hi. I'm a DM who prepares power cards for all of his PCs. Guess he's leaving the Dark Sun book with me each week.

Perhaps the dm ought to own the campaign setting he's running?

Or perhaps it's not necessary to make new power cards for each session.

We play twice a month for six hours. Bringing every 4e book we have to a session to make 3rd level characters is a huge hassle and would basically waste a session. I did myself make a character for the Dark Sun game long hand, but not everyone has the time or books to do so.

But thanks for the smug response.

O-kay, first off I'm not trying to be smug, but I find it hard to credit that people somehow cannot figure out how to make characters without the CB anymore. And seriously, six hours to make characters? Just how much time with the Dark Sun book do they need? Surely the group has a couple different PHs that they can share around while one guy hogs the campaign setting book for a while...?

Really, I recognize that 4e has a ton of options, but if it takes 6 hours to make a character with pen and paper, maybe the dm should have a few one-off pre-session hang-out periods with the players in order to get things ready. Don't get me wrong, I fully acknowledge that the CB is very cool and useful- but saying that the dm can't start until DS is in the CB is just silly.