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<blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 5378359" data-attributes="member: 7220"><p>Speaking as someone who's had an active D&D Insider subscription since launch, I feel cheated. This is, quite simply, not a robust product, and is inferior to the original one offered. And actually, I'm somewhat offended that the product would be released in this condition when there was a perfectly good one already extant. There should be no question in anyone's mind, having now seen the builder, that it was a move that was purely a money grab, with no attempt to improve the experience for the user.</p><p></p><p>Some complaints:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No house rules. I can't allow free feats, exclude anything by source (Essentials, I'm looking at you). I can't even change the freakin stat array. This alone makes the builder useless for my campaign.<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The only character sheet option is the "I can't do math" version. The original character builder's sheet was superior.<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Even internally, there's no breakdown of all of your bonuses. When you look at a power, it just states "Primary Ability" instead of the actual numbers. End result is that you can't easily use the program to find out if X ability works with Y feat and such, or use the numbers easily to figure out which power is better for you.<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No custom portraits.<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I have to step through the ridiculous "What kind of class do you like to play?" screen every time I build a character. Seriously?<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No scroll wheel support. I have to drag my way through the program.<br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's just plain buggy. Crashes galore.</li> </ul><p></p><p>End result is that I'm seriously thinking of just using the old CB and making adjustments on the paper. We'd have to do that anyway with the new CB. Not only should this program have been held back for further testing, it should have been held back until it was at least somewhat feature complete with the existing CB - and the original CB updated until then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terramotus, post: 5378359, member: 7220"] Speaking as someone who's had an active D&D Insider subscription since launch, I feel cheated. This is, quite simply, not a robust product, and is inferior to the original one offered. And actually, I'm somewhat offended that the product would be released in this condition when there was a perfectly good one already extant. There should be no question in anyone's mind, having now seen the builder, that it was a move that was purely a money grab, with no attempt to improve the experience for the user. Some complaints: [LIST] [*]No house rules. I can't allow free feats, exclude anything by source (Essentials, I'm looking at you). I can't even change the freakin stat array. This alone makes the builder useless for my campaign. [*]The only character sheet option is the "I can't do math" version. The original character builder's sheet was superior. [*]Even internally, there's no breakdown of all of your bonuses. When you look at a power, it just states "Primary Ability" instead of the actual numbers. End result is that you can't easily use the program to find out if X ability works with Y feat and such, or use the numbers easily to figure out which power is better for you. [*]No custom portraits. [*]I have to step through the ridiculous "What kind of class do you like to play?" screen every time I build a character. Seriously? [*]No scroll wheel support. I have to drag my way through the program. [*]It's just plain buggy. Crashes galore. [/LIST] End result is that I'm seriously thinking of just using the old CB and making adjustments on the paper. We'd have to do that anyway with the new CB. Not only should this program have been held back for further testing, it should have been held back until it was at least somewhat feature complete with the existing CB - and the original CB updated until then. [/QUOTE]
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