RLBURNSIDE
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What are decent options for 4e in terms of third party character building software?
New Character Builder from WotC!
- Thread starter Dausuul
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Festivus
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Herolab - 4th Edition - Hero Lab - Lone Wolf Development
Heroforge - HeroForge Software - Downloads
Those were what I was thinking of anyhow. There are probably others.
AdmundfortGeographer
Getting lost in fantasy maps
Silverlight is my beef as well. I feel bad for WotC jumping on Silverlight as Microsoft is walking away from it. It's like their technology endeavors are perpetually ill-fated.
Maybe there will be some authoring conversion tool provided by MS to convert Silverlight projects into HTML5 someday.
Hussar
Legend
I've seen a couple of comments about IP.
Really? Do you actually give a rats petoot about your character's name and whatnot, to the point where it should be protected IP?
Do you ever store your characters in any other online format? There's already a bajillion online character vaults all over the Net. Why is it when WOTC does it, suddenly there's this hue and cry about IP? Wander over to pretty much any online gaming forum and they have vaults there. Does anyone start complaining about Obsidian Portal? Heck, doesn't En World have a character vault floating around here somewhere?
I'm thinking that WOTC has bigger fish to fry than your dual dagger wielding heavily tanned elf.
Really? Do you actually give a rats petoot about your character's name and whatnot, to the point where it should be protected IP?
Do you ever store your characters in any other online format? There's already a bajillion online character vaults all over the Net. Why is it when WOTC does it, suddenly there's this hue and cry about IP? Wander over to pretty much any online gaming forum and they have vaults there. Does anyone start complaining about Obsidian Portal? Heck, doesn't En World have a character vault floating around here somewhere?
I'm thinking that WOTC has bigger fish to fry than your dual dagger wielding heavily tanned elf.
Don't hold your breath- they've orphaned programs before, not bothering to make a converter to transfer/translate data from one of their own programs to another.
I lost a lot of data when Microsoft decided to make Excel its spreadsheet of choice, abandoning other earlier programs when a wave of CPU upgrades happened.
To be fair, Wizards would have no idea when embarking on this project that Silverlight might soon be dead. Meanwhile, the other major alternative - Flash - has been extremely heavily panned by Apple. Why go with it?
HTML5 is not yet an option. It certainly wasn't 6 months ago.
Cheers!
Eh, I don't know. Frankly, I don't care. But, for example, some of the players I know are wannabe fantasy writers. I don't think they'd like the fact that a company might decide to take their character's name and use it as a minor pc in a novel, especially if they wanted to use it for a short novel themselves.
I know it's pretty unlikely, maybe to the point of being just paranoia, but I can see why some of them would prefer to avoid the possibility altogether.
Not happy at all.
First, I'm really mad at having people say that those who sign up for a month every year and get the whole bunch of stuff instead of subscibing every month are "pirates", "without honor" or "abusing the system".
Sirs, that'x exactly what I've been doing until now, and I feel greatly offended by this terms. Some are derogatory, and some are outright crimes punished by law in most countries. The next time I'll hear someone bring up them again I'll ask for moderation.
Signing up for a month only, is just how the system works. I signed up only when something that really interested was up, nominally FR and Eberron.
I don't feel ashamed at all by using the rules fairly at my advantage. This is called min-maxing. People should be used to the term.
Next time what? I'll be accused of "abusing the system" because I wait 6 months for DVDs to end in the discount bins instead of buying them on release day at full price?
Back to the main topic: as many other people I don't have (nor do I want) online access all the time to use a CB. Sure, it would be nice as an additional but not exclusive feature. But for a paying application I want it to be usable offline, too. Others already stated more than valid reasons for this, so I won't repeat them.
So, even if that was just 10 bucks every six months, unless they get really better with the magazines so that it's worthy for me to subscribe just for them, they're going to lose even that circa 2 dollars a month they used to get from me.
Plus, but that's minor. I'm a 99% Linux user. Moving to Silverlight is of no use to me (no more than sticking to .NET, actually). Heck, since they moved to browser-based software, they could at least use real cross-platform sytems!!!
First, I'm really mad at having people say that those who sign up for a month every year and get the whole bunch of stuff instead of subscibing every month are "pirates", "without honor" or "abusing the system".
Sirs, that'x exactly what I've been doing until now, and I feel greatly offended by this terms. Some are derogatory, and some are outright crimes punished by law in most countries. The next time I'll hear someone bring up them again I'll ask for moderation.
Signing up for a month only, is just how the system works. I signed up only when something that really interested was up, nominally FR and Eberron.
I don't feel ashamed at all by using the rules fairly at my advantage. This is called min-maxing. People should be used to the term.
Next time what? I'll be accused of "abusing the system" because I wait 6 months for DVDs to end in the discount bins instead of buying them on release day at full price?
Back to the main topic: as many other people I don't have (nor do I want) online access all the time to use a CB. Sure, it would be nice as an additional but not exclusive feature. But for a paying application I want it to be usable offline, too. Others already stated more than valid reasons for this, so I won't repeat them.
So, even if that was just 10 bucks every six months, unless they get really better with the magazines so that it's worthy for me to subscribe just for them, they're going to lose even that circa 2 dollars a month they used to get from me.
Plus, but that's minor. I'm a 99% Linux user. Moving to Silverlight is of no use to me (no more than sticking to .NET, actually). Heck, since they moved to browser-based software, they could at least use real cross-platform sytems!!!
Minifig
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You know it occurs to me that maybe people would be more inclined to pay for the offline creator if they.. I don't know.. updated it more than once per 4-8 month period.
It's stupid that they think that this will prevent piracy.
Update your client more often and MAYBE people will want to pay for it.
It's stupid that they think that this will prevent piracy.
Update your client more often and MAYBE people will want to pay for it.
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