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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8884629" data-attributes="member: 18">Absolutely. Never let anyone senior, unless they're very technically knowledgeable and level-head, get a hold of any kind of app prototyping software, I can tell you that much. We had an unfortunate incident a few years back where a couple of fairly senior but non-technical people used it (or rather stood around and instructed someone else to use it) to create pretty-but-non-functional "apps", and then basically said "Make it work! How hard can it be?".[ATTACH=full]271729[/ATTACH]I mean, not even codemonkeys, like just plain monkeys, because codemonkeys might get some respect for the coding they'd done, if nothing else.Indeed. It's really variable. Condition of being hired stuff isn't as common as one might expect, too, I think because it can spook people (perhaps rightly in some cases).I'd agree.I think DDB faltered as time went on, particularly after they got sold to Fandom in 2018 and later as they seemed to start losing people, but the basic core product they had was a very solid and importantly - attractive and largely pleasant-to-use product. Their app was surprisingly not bad either, even the books-only version of it. I have plenty of criticisms, but they all boil down to "They stopped meaningfully improving the product in late 2018", which seems to be due a combo of factors not worth addressing here.It's very easy to imagine a conceptually-similar product that wasn't as well-produced or conceptually sound. If they hadn't basically made the product I was looking for, I don't know if I'd even have DM'd 5E much and I'm sure my groups would have played it less.Been there lol.</blockquote>

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