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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5378748" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Keep the old one.</p><p></p><p>I can't blame anyone at this point for cancelling their subs for this. There's no added value in this CB, and a <em>lot lot lot</em> of problems. Hand-adding the DS and Essentials stuff you want is better than this. Doing up your character by hand is probably better than this. </p><p></p><p>The reduced functionality might be bearable if it did what it said on the tin adequately enough. If it <strong>built a D&D character</strong>. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, it can't really do that very well. It crashes, or decides to add a random bonus, or decides to not add a random bonus, or decides to hide options, or decides to not let you get rid of items, or decides to not let you equip things, or decides to take it's sweet time and fart the national anthem while it turns grey and sits around for a few minutes, just chilling out, like that's it's job.</p><p></p><p>I mean, you might get it to help you make a D&D character. Y'know, if you let it kick you in the shins and give it $10/month for the privilege while it laughs at you with all the popular kids.</p><p></p><p>Okay, yes, there's some absurdist hyperbole in here. But when making a character is nearly a Kafkaesque experience, all red tape, pointless restrictions, and a grim hilarity at the suffering of life, I feel absurdist hyperbole is the most appropriate response.</p><p></p><p>Seriously, keep the old one, and, unless you <em>really love</em> Dragon, Dungeon, and the Compendium, cancel yer sub, at least for a few months until they get this into a workable state. </p><p></p><p>Because the CB as it exists now is making me feel like it's 2000 all over again, and I've just bought the 3e PHB, and here's this nifty character creator on a disk in the back of it and <em>oh sweet jesus this is more hassle than help</em>. It is not worth money. I feel like they should be paying <em>me</em> to bug-test the sunbich.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5378748, member: 2067"] Keep the old one. I can't blame anyone at this point for cancelling their subs for this. There's no added value in this CB, and a [I]lot lot lot[/I] of problems. Hand-adding the DS and Essentials stuff you want is better than this. Doing up your character by hand is probably better than this. The reduced functionality might be bearable if it did what it said on the tin adequately enough. If it [b]built a D&D character[/b]. Unfortunately, it can't really do that very well. It crashes, or decides to add a random bonus, or decides to not add a random bonus, or decides to hide options, or decides to not let you get rid of items, or decides to not let you equip things, or decides to take it's sweet time and fart the national anthem while it turns grey and sits around for a few minutes, just chilling out, like that's it's job. I mean, you might get it to help you make a D&D character. Y'know, if you let it kick you in the shins and give it $10/month for the privilege while it laughs at you with all the popular kids. Okay, yes, there's some absurdist hyperbole in here. But when making a character is nearly a Kafkaesque experience, all red tape, pointless restrictions, and a grim hilarity at the suffering of life, I feel absurdist hyperbole is the most appropriate response. Seriously, keep the old one, and, unless you [I]really love[/I] Dragon, Dungeon, and the Compendium, cancel yer sub, at least for a few months until they get this into a workable state. Because the CB as it exists now is making me feel like it's 2000 all over again, and I've just bought the 3e PHB, and here's this nifty character creator on a disk in the back of it and [I]oh sweet jesus this is more hassle than help[/I]. It is not worth money. I feel like they should be paying [I]me[/I] to bug-test the sunbich. [/QUOTE]
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