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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6460055" data-attributes="member: 58197">Bluntly put, I'm not outraged because the Dungeonscape beta was disastrous. It was crawling with bugs that should have been shaken out during internal testing long before anything was released to the public. Maybe the iOS version was better, but what we saw on the web was abysmal. If that was the quality of their work, I'd have cut ties with them too.Moreover, what were they offering that we were supposed to be so excited for? A character builder? I can get a dozen of those on the web for free. Not only that, but 5E makes it easy to build a character by hand again--much easier than either 3E or 4E--so a character builder has to really blow me away before I start getting excited. Even pretending the bugs weren't there, Dungeonscape didn't show me anything that other character builders hadn't done before just as well.It doesn't help that the Trapdoor guys keep trying to work us up with breathless, substance-free hype. I'm working on a little 5E gadget of my own--an encounter builder and combat tracker--and I happen to think it's got some pretty neat features, but I'm not under any delusions that the whole Internet is just waiting breathlessly to hear me announce it. If I want anybody to use my app*, I'm going to have to pitch them on specific reasons why it's better than what they've got now, not just bloviate about how wonderful my app is.[SIZE=-2]*Always assuming we get some sort of licensing scheme that allows it to see the light of day. If not, it'll be just me and my group using it.[/SIZE]</blockquote>

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