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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 5079404" data-attributes="member: 55178">The character builder is a few shades shy of what my heart would be content with.  The current level of customization is "here are some boxes that you can move around."  The picture painted by the DDI team at Gencon was that part of the interface would include the ability to be able to make your own character sheets, entirely from scratch, that included whatever bits of information you wanted, and that looked however it was that you wanted them to look, that just read the file generated by the character builder.  They talked about how huge the modding and skinning communities were for other games, and how they wanted to tap into that resource for D&D.We didn't get that.  Now, to be fair, I don't think that we'll never have that, but I also don't think that we're going to have a fully functional character visualizer and online game table circa last year either.  I understand that it is/was a big project, and that there are a lot of things that they wanted to do that had to be sacrificed due to time constraints and budget.  The character builder is great, and I think that overall it's worth the price.  But I'm fine with just using the cobbled together piece of crap I built until the official character builder does the stuff I need it to do.</blockquote>