GameSpy Reviews D&D Insider

[Scott_Rouse]

Did I understand from that article that "3d-miniatures used to represent monsters" will cost extra money?

You get large set of 3d minis and 2d/3d tiles as part of your initial subscription and if you want more minis or 3/d tiles they be available as micro-transactions.

You'll also have every monster in the MM as tokens and you can make new tokens as well.

 

[Klaus]

You get large set of 3d minis and 2d/3d tiles as part of your initial subscription and if you want more minis or 3/d tiles they be available as micro-transactions.

You'll also have every monster in the MM as tokens and you can make new tokens as well.

By tokens, do you mean "flat" images? And by "make new tokens", do you mean importing/uploading images?

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[D'karr]

By tokens, do you mean "flat" images? And by "make new tokens", do you mean importing/uploading images?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Yes, this was demonstrated at DDXP.

 

[abeattie]

You get large set of 3d minis and 2d/3d tiles as part of your initial subscription and if you want more minis or 3/d tiles they be available as micro-transactions.

You'll also have every monster in the MM as tokens and you can make new tokens as well.

Scott, er.. sorry, Mr. The Rouse rather ,

Can I bug you about these:

1) can ya'll look at splitting the online content up into separate subscriptions. I have no use for Dragon or Dungeon (personally) but I would love to use the rules tool, and the online tabletop. However, if it comes down to 10$ a month for a compiled set of rules I already own, and a tabletop tool that can be replaced (for free) by open source tools.. .. AND I have to get at least one or two of my players to subscribe in order to have enough tokens to play online -- ouch. I might still do it, but I'm pulling my group into 4e as it is. They won't go for the subscription at that rate.

I would love a 4.99$ pricepoint for the use of the online tools, separate that from a full yearly subscription price for dragon and/or dungeon. 120$ a year is just.. too much. It feels like I'm being asked to subsidize the unpopular areas of your production line in order to get the good product I want.

2) Please give us a free month with the PHB. Make it easier for me to convince my friends to come play online. Please! I understand that there's supposed to be a trial period associated with the launch, but it may not be for a few months after that that I can convince them to make the switch. When we switch over, they will buy PHBs. It seems like a natural time to pull people into any online component your team has built.

3) Good to hear about the tokens!

Thanks!

 

[Nightchilde-2]

I don't suppose anyone knows how many Guest Passes per month a subscription comes with do they?

 

[D'karr]

I don't suppose anyone knows how many Guest Passes per month a subscription comes with do they?

I believe 8 was mentioned but the truth is that some of these things are still not set in stone, by WotC.

 

[Voss]

Interesting article - thanks for the tip. I will say that the whole thing seems pretty much pure marketing on WotCs part. Not that I blame them, but did they pay Gamespy to do the spot? /snark

Just to be clear, the article was interesting but it seemed to be painting with an awfully broad brush.

Thats... pretty much the point of Gamespy. Vague generalities and no real depth for your advertising dollar. The more you pay, the more positive their ads. Sorry, 'articles'.

 

[abeattie]

Interesting article - thanks for the tip. I will say that the whole thing seems pretty much pure marketing on WotCs part. Not that I blame them, but did they pay Gamespy to do the spot? /snark

Just to be clear, the article was interesting but it seemed to be painting with an awfully broad brush.

If they paid for it, I doubt it would have ended with "Although we recognize that Wizards is putting a lot out with this software, the price point seems really steep at the moment. Perhaps we'll see a reconsideration of the price before Insider launches."

"Not worth the price" isn't advertising.

 

[Mercule]

The background images look really good IMO, but the 3D renderings of the characters themselves isn't working for me.

I finally figured out why they bug me. All the character images look like they were computer generated. That's okay if the whole game is on a computer (NWN, WOW), but we're a table-top group and I keep imagining that picture printed onto a character sheet in the top-right corner. Such would be... anachronistic... or something.

 

[theRogueRooster]

Man, I don't know about those screenshots. The background images look really good IMO, but the 3D renderings of the characters themselves isn't working for me.

What I think the character models need are ground shadows to anchor the models onto the background image. The lack of a shadow causes them to appear to be superimposed on the background instead of a part of it.

-tRR