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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackbrrd" data-source="post: 6303583" data-attributes="member: 63962">[rant]Regarding the last paragraph, I am a bit confused. The 4e character builder only works on windows with silverlight and is really really slow and creates character sheets that are 4pages at level 1 and quickly increase to 10+ pages. Part of the reason it's so helpful is that there are sooooooo many splatbooks for 4e. There are basically hundreds of feats - per class/race. If you want to update your character, you can't do it on your tablet, you have to start up a windows PC to do it. In addition, it costs 6$ a month to get this.One of the players in my group used the character builder and created a character that was just ineffective. He had tried to optimize, but there are so many bad options in 4e that it's quite hard as a casual player to get anything out of it. Typically you have to select x class with y power and z1, z2 and z3 feats to be effective. I helped him out, which took something like an hour, sifting through powers and feats to find combinations that actually works well together. With hundreds of feats and powers to go through, there is nothing casual friendly about 4e.[/rant]What I hope for with 5e is a html 5 based character builder that doesn't require a subscription and where I can update my character from my tablet/smartphone without going to a windows PC. Alternatively, since 5e looks quite simple to handle without a character builder, an SRD in html5 (kind of like the one for d20) would also be appreciated. If I get the same slow, silverlight-based stuff again, I am going to be disappointed. The advantage of going html5 instead of a java/silverlight/windows/iOS/OSX/Linux/android application is that it would work quite seemlessly through all my devices.</blockquote>

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