With 30% of Wizards' new "permanently in stock" Essentials line being dungeon tile master sets, wouldn't it make sense for Wizards to bring back a tool that they had already had way back when, so that we can view and save maps of our tiles and plan how we're going to use them with adventures in a convenient way?
Since the tiles are reprints, some of them are already on the old Dungeon Tiles Mapper I found in Wizards' archives. You'd think they would have already rolled it back out, or announced that they plan to:
A large chunk of their new marketing strategy / product line is these tiles (three out of ten products.) They're great at the table, but awkward when it comes to putting an adventure down on paper in a way that you can remember which tiles you're using, and exactly where. A lot of people are less than thrilled with DDI at the moment, and calling for new functionality. In five months' time, they will have released four different tile sets starting with Deserts of Athas. They've already done it once and they still have the old tool, it just isn't up-to-date.
So what are they worried about? Piracy? People using the mapper but not buying the tiles? It seems like they're willing to completely paralyze themselves for the sake of someone not ripping them off digitally, and people are still able to rip them off digitally regardless.
I seriously wonder about their decision making skills sometimes.
Since the tiles are reprints, some of them are already on the old Dungeon Tiles Mapper I found in Wizards' archives. You'd think they would have already rolled it back out, or announced that they plan to:
A large chunk of their new marketing strategy / product line is these tiles (three out of ten products.) They're great at the table, but awkward when it comes to putting an adventure down on paper in a way that you can remember which tiles you're using, and exactly where. A lot of people are less than thrilled with DDI at the moment, and calling for new functionality. In five months' time, they will have released four different tile sets starting with Deserts of Athas. They've already done it once and they still have the old tool, it just isn't up-to-date.
So what are they worried about? Piracy? People using the mapper but not buying the tiles? It seems like they're willing to completely paralyze themselves for the sake of someone not ripping them off digitally, and people are still able to rip them off digitally regardless.
I seriously wonder about their decision making skills sometimes.
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