Should I even bother with 3E anymore?

[Banshee16]

Ain't it mostly Web-based? I mean, I expect that virtual tabletop is a separate application, but surely the rest of it will run on whatever halfway-decent browser you might have, regardless of OS or horsepower.

All depends on what they use to build it. Is it a web interface, or is it software that updates content via a web interface?

Banshee

 

[Desdichado]

:shrug: I'm still bothering with it. A lot of it's compatible with my d20 Modern game, for instance.

 

[catsclaw227]

If you:

1) Own a PC

2) Its powerful enough to run the DI software.

If I am not mistaken, only the VTT is the client application that is currently only slated for PCs.

I thought that the unlocked content, My Character, the ruleset, Dungeon and Dragon magazine, as well as all the extra articles are browser-based and would run on pretty much any internet connected computer with a fairly modern browser. In other words, if you can post here, you can use 85% of what DnD Insider offers.

 

[Alan Shutko]

If I am not mistaken, only the VTT is the client application that is currently only slated for PCs.

I thought that the unlocked content, My Character, the ruleset, Dungeon and Dragon magazine, as well as all the extra articles are browser-based and would run on pretty much any internet connected computer with a fairly modern browser. In other words, if you can post here, you can use 85% of what DnD Insider offers.

Some corrections as far as I understand them. The Virtual Tabletop and the Character Builder/Visualizer will require DirectX. The Character Builder is an application which will help you create a 3d-model of your character, so you can use it as a mini in the VTT.

They also mention some other apps which will have lower system requirements.

This is also where you can load your character(s)' file from the D&DI applications (character sheet and character builder mainly) so that others could use it in their own D&DI applications suite if they want to (and if you want them to access it)

To me, this implies that the character sheet app is a client app.

You will get access to tools like wiki for example, and can also upload information taken from the D&DI applications suite (The dungeon builder and the encounter builder for example) for others to use (always with the ability to chose what you want others to see and get access to).

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

If you love 3e like me and 4e turns out to be a waste of time stick with 3e. Hopefully there will be 3rd party publishers still making stuff for it. In the meantime IM bet there is hundred of stuff you havent picked up that is worth it. I know I have alot to catch up on.

 

[Thurbane]

I'm already regretting going from 2E to 3.5

My group went on hiatus not long before 3E came out due to personal and family commitments, and reformed about 2 years ago.

Of our newly formed group of 5, 3 had only ever played OD&D, 1E and 2E; 1 had played 2E and 3E; and one had never played any incarnation of D&D.

Our initial plan was to go with 2E as the majority of the group had played it, but the guy who hadn't played at all before made a case that we should go with the current (3.5) edition, so he could be on an "even footing" with the rest of us. It sounded like a good idea, so that's what we went with.

Now, after having invested significant $$$ and even more significant amounts of time in learning 3.5, we're faced with the prospect of doing it all over again. I think I speak for all of us that while we might show some passing interest in 4E and glance over the SRD (if any), we will be sticking with 3.5 for the forseeable future.

I'm playing on buying up as much 3rd party 3.5 product as possible, and going trawling online for free OGL material. I just picked up Bard's Gate, Dead Man's Chest and Excalibur on the weekend, and I'm probably off to buy Tome of Artifacts this weekend.