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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlin the Tuna" data-source="post: 5106865" data-attributes="member: 55638">I also just had my first go at this today, and I'm impressed with how well this works.  I'll need to tinker with it more to be sure, but I can see using this in the future, even if only to make centralizing my Character Builder files a little easier.  That said, there are a few things that didn't quite click with me.  The easy ones:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wizard powers are a bit clunky.  Everything in their spell book shows up as an active power even though half of their stuff isn't actually available. You can use the "Use/Unuse" buttons to get rid of the spellbook'd powers, but short rests will restore any non-daily utility powers. Extended rests will of course restore everything.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When I select a single-target power and press "Roll All", it rolls 1 damage roll and 8 attack rolls; I don't understand why the latter is happening.  It'd be great if the app automatically rolled the maximum number of attack rolls possible for the power (ex: burst 1 rolls 9, blast 5 rolls 25, etc.), but right now I'm getting 7 more calculations than I need.</li> </ul>I guess my biggest question at this point is "How do you expect this program to actually be used?"  It doesn't seem like it's quite at the point of being used by the players and the DM simultaneously; with my testing earlier (I had my current GMail account on Firefox and an old one on Chrome), it didn't look like changes that player A makes to his PC were visible to player B until B refreshed, which seems like a bit of an issue, especially for a DM trying to track everyone. And as an aside, refreshing is also a bit of a pain on a netbook, since the Campaign information and other images/header-y stuff/etc. takes up a lot of screen real estate at the top, forcing me to scroll back down after each refresh.Do you picture this as something that the DM uses alone in real time, something to facilitate PbP games, something the group uses to "Save" their game if they have to end the session half-way through an adventuring day (and on that note, this is easily the best way to do exactly this that I've ever seen), or something that each DM and PC uses a computer to update in real time?</blockquote>

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