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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5380853" data-attributes="member: 158">Silly me, using it to prep pre-gens for at least two Gamedays, my own character and one other person's character for two home campaigns, and numerous other trial-characters just for the fun of it. Guess I shouldn't have been able to use the thing to actually, y'know, GET GAMING DONE because it wasn't &quot;functional.&quot; The old CB was a pretty slick piece of software, despite several improvements needed, and I did get a good bit of use out of it. The new web app is on the border between painful and useless to me - I'm not waiting an extra two seconds between every single button press like I'm wading through virtual molasses. I was gradually disappointed between the diminished usefulness of the revised compendium, then the gradually less interesting Dungeon and Dragon mag content, and the web app was my last straw. I still have the character builder, updated through psionic power, but as I'm playing a Dark Sun game right now I'm using a fill-in PDF sheet and prety much getting what I need done. Loving 4E and the Essentials game material, but the software support went from great (under 3E and PCGen's licenses) to good under 4E and DDI, down to positively useless to me as of now. Maybe the virtual tabletop will signal a change in positive innovations, but seeing as how I do all my gaming in person currently I really don't need it. I'll keep my ear to the virtual ground though and see if things improve.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 5380853, member: 158"] Silly me, using it to prep pre-gens for at least two Gamedays, my own character and one other person's character for two home campaigns, and numerous other trial-characters just for the fun of it. Guess I shouldn't have been able to use the thing to actually, y'know, GET GAMING DONE because it wasn't "functional." The old CB was a pretty slick piece of software, despite several improvements needed, and I did get a good bit of use out of it. The new web app is on the border between painful and useless to me - I'm not waiting an extra two seconds between every single button press like I'm wading through virtual molasses. I was gradually disappointed between the diminished usefulness of the revised compendium, then the gradually less interesting Dungeon and Dragon mag content, and the web app was my last straw. I still have the character builder, updated through psionic power, but as I'm playing a Dark Sun game right now I'm using a fill-in PDF sheet and prety much getting what I need done. Loving 4E and the Essentials game material, but the software support went from great (under 3E and PCGen's licenses) to good under 4E and DDI, down to positively useless to me as of now. Maybe the virtual tabletop will signal a change in positive innovations, but seeing as how I do all my gaming in person currently I really don't need it. I'll keep my ear to the virtual ground though and see if things improve. [/QUOTE]

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