Dude, these higher-than-thou posts dripping with sarcasm and contempt are getting a little tiresome. Calm it down, please. If you don't want to discuss the subject, let those who do want to to do so. Thank you.
D&D 5E The new Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set - and online tools?
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Dude, these higher-than-thou posts dripping with sarcasm and contempt are getting a little tiresome. Calm it down, please. If you don't want to discuss the subject, let those who do want to to do so. Thank you.
Like I said, Mike has said that explicitly: "Sorry, we're still finalizing things, but I think we have a pretty nifty plan. The stuff we haven't talked about yet is where DMs and players go next - there's a step between the Starter Set and the Big 3."
(Huh; on the white skin the quote highlight colour is exactly the same as the moderation colour. That's inconvenient!)
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
Yeah I saw your reply and immediately thought "Uh oh what did I do now?"
My guess is this is an app, and they are waiting on Apple's final approval (don't need much Droid approval).
We are definitely missing something. I am very interest to learn what that is eventually.
That's been my guess, too. Perhaps with something in the boxed set to point you at it.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Really hope this is right, because that would be great.
With only one account, only one person can use it at a time. Leveling up takes 5x as long. The business model gets in the way of convenience.
Regarding silverlight, my main objection isn't finding a PC as opposed to a Mac, but that I can't use it on my smartphone or tablet and have to export/import to get them there and that there are some implementation issues with some (most?) of those 3rd party tools where not every stat matches the character builder. Typically the defences. My friends don't bring their laptop to the game either, they bring their tablets and use the import/export feature. Not to cool when you get a new magic item. We usually add them out of session, the one-at-a-time export/import together with a very slow application (at least in Norway) makes it ineffective to do in session.
Regarding the use of the word Effective, you are quite right, I should have used the word "Efficient". Both words translates to the same word in Norwegian, "Effektiv".
I fully agree with you here. I just don't think it's all that good. If I wanted to rate it, it would get a 6/10. It was good to have but could have been done much better. The easiest feature to implement would be the grading that the wotc charop forum does. It would have made it a good tool for the novices as well instead of swamping them with bad choices.
It's speculation from my side, but I am pretty sure 5e is going to have much better digital support than 5e. Hopefully the issues I mention above gets resolved. My guess on how it's done:
- html 5 as the platform instead of silverlight
- html 5 design that scales according to device with css
- srd a lot like pathfinders
- character builder
I don't think they will go the app-path, mainly because it becomes a huge maintainance issue with ios, android, windows phone, windows and mac support. Creating it all in html 5 would servce all platforms.
darjr
I crit!
Sorry, imho, it's an add. One that needs the targets to work at to make go. No thanks.
If whatever this secret is is so much better than having chargen in the starter set, then why have chargen in the PHB? After all this secret thing is so much better right?
An app would be cool, if chargen was also in the starter set, a pdf would be cool, if chargen was in the starter set, something handed out at encounters and free rpg day would be cool, if chargen was in the starter set.
There are kids and families I was considering giving the starter set to that do not have an iphone or any kind of smartphone.
darjr
I crit!
I hope so. I hope it's fantastic.
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