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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 5482621" data-attributes="member: 6669048">I've used both now finally after getting a month of DDi just to see if it was worth the money.  Honestly, I'm finding more use out of 3rd party tools and having a logon to the Compendium than I am with WotC's tools.  And the online builder is completely worthless for me as a DM because I house-rule an additional feat at 1st level, which you flat out can't do in the online CB.  Also, the adventure tools haven't changed since I last had an account over a year ago except a few extra monsters.Enough generic whining about DDi's value, let's go with my specific problems with the online CB compared to the offline version:- Slower.  It takes just as much time to launch and load everything (if you can believe that).  Sure, the offline builder took a good few minutes to load, but it generally ran fairly quickly once it did.  Not so with online, it's slow across the board.- Less functionality.  I can't houserule to add feats/powers/etc., which as I said, I give a free feat to my players.  It may be possible, but I can't find the feature to add custom items either and I love creating my own magic items to hand out.- No custom portraits.  Okay, this sounds like a lame complaint, but it's important to me.  I love scouring the net for character portraits for my players to use to give them more attachment to their characters, but that's a wasted effort now because you HAVE to use the generic images on the CB.- Interface feels weird.  I like that you pick your class before your race now, because that makes more sense to me.  But everything else feels like it's laid out in a weird way.  Especially the "fluff" like name, age, etc. being required before almost anything else, which bothers me because I typically don't know what the character will be like personality-wise until I'm almost done making it.  It just feels really weird the way things are laid out.- Character sheets.  This would probably be my biggest complaint...if I'd actually gotten finished making ANY character on the online CB.  There's just one point every time I've tried - even with something as simple as a Knight - that I get frustrated and go back to the offline generator.  So I can't say anything other than what I've seen on the current Encounters pre-gens, but I just don't like the way those were laid out.  The actual sheets may be different from those, but I just can't bring myself like that layout no matter how hard I try...</blockquote>

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