Whenever I see the discussion about soon, I can't help but think of Spaceballs:
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
New web-based content?
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Unfortunately, I have an AMD processor, so it's not possible to fix. The problem is that Windows tries to install a security update and it never registers, so it keeps trying to install it over and over including every update after that. The CB needs one of those updates.
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fanboy2000
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It has nothing to do with the CB. Recently Wizards resurected an old website: The Hoffmann Institute for the Gamma World Game Day. The adventure had the URLs for various websites so the player's could access the content online. (Old-fashioned handouts were provided for those without internet). Wizards could have used their website, but didn't. They resurrected an old one and added subdirectories.
Why? Because they're planning on doing something with it.
The Hoffmann Institute was the organization the PCs worked for in the Dark*Matter setting for Alternity. (And later, d20 Modern.) Next year, they're going to announce a new game Dark*Matter game using the 4e ruleset.
Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
Why? Because they're planning on doing something with it.
The Hoffmann Institute was the organization the PCs worked for in the Dark*Matter setting for Alternity. (And later, d20 Modern.) Next year, they're going to announce a new game Dark*Matter game using the 4e ruleset.
I bet you make a mean danish.Of course, my kids are glad I do not have the same definition of soon as WotC - or I would never get around cooking food for them
Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
Walking Dad
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IMHO, it looked more like they tried to update all racial errata that came with essentials. They did it for all races, but the human and didn't bother to complete it because the character builder in it's current form will get dumped anyway.
They didn't add half essential content.
They were not able to apply the full errata.
Scribble
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While the Dark Matter 4e thing might be true, one of the online WoTC people indicated it was a suite of "web based tools" that was going to be released. I forget what actually brought it up but the way it was worded made someone ask if he meant the compendium. He said no, the Compendium is a part of it, but not specifically what he was talking about.
Zaran
Adventurer
I'm really upset with DDI because they basically said the phrase "web-based tools system" and then stopped communicating with us. We do not know when the character builder will be up to date. We don't know what exactly they are working on. Basically the rumor is that someone above the DDI department demanded that no communication happen between the DDI team and us. So I decided that they don't need me as an investor.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't I guess. That will show them!
When WOTC told us about things they were working on in the past, and pieces didn't come to fruition, players got pissed and "stopped investing." Rightly so I think. Now WOTC do their best to keep things hush hush until the project is finished; but stuff inevitably squeaks out because people are people, not robots. Now players get pissed that they aren't told more and "stop investing".
IIRC the person who originally started the excitement over tools development was a third-party individual dancing around their NDA, not WOTC. IIRC the only thing coming from WOTC was a programmer blogging that they were working on a big online tools project. Those are the two pieces that seem to be feeding the rumor mill most.
There should be nothing special about a tools programmer working on tools projects, and big is a relative term, so why should the programmer think twice about telling us this? But the programmer's statement is picked up in conjunction with the NDA dancer's statment and we try to make something out of it. Something that may be true, but I'm not sure WOTC is the real problem here, or even if we can say there is a problem.
That doesn't mean we can't blame WOTC though. This is the internet.
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I work in tech support, and play D&D, big surprise. This problem sounds familiar and is easily fixed if it is the problem I am thinking about. Windows checks for updates you need, it downloads those update, then it installs those updates from the downloaded updates folder. An update can download improperly, sitting in the downloaded updates folder corrupt and unusable. Try to install the update again and Windows sees that you already have the update sitting in the downloaded updates folder, doesn't download the update again, and fails because it keeps trying to install the same corrupt update each time.
You need to delete the bad update from the downloaded updates folder. Looking that up now... here we go. All spelled out for you. This might fix your problem:
Get Rid of Corrupted Windows Updates | PCMag.com
Hunh?? I have an AMD processor with Win XP SP3, have everything fully patched, and do not have a problem.
Trevor Kidd (WotC Community Manager) posted something mentioning web-based tools when he posted about what was going to be included in the October update.
Trevor Kidd said:
From Whoops! Browser Settings Incompatible
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