Inspired 4e Design
Work keeps my grubby mitts off of the full version of the character builder, but later tonight expect another video review of the application. I’ll be handing this over to my players ASAP so they can track there characters on it. It should make levelling tons smoother.
On my end, this will be great for mocking up NPCs and overall playing with different builds of the system. Expect to see 4e characters on the site in the very near future.
A Jack of All Trades ,or if you prefer, an extreme example of multi-classing, Gamefiend, a.k.a Quinn Murphy has been discussing, playing and designing games straight out of the womb. He is the owner and Editor-in-Chief of this site in addition to being an aspiring game designer. As you would assume, he is a huge fan of 4e.
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I’ve been holding off subscribing. Is DDI worth it? I am mighty tempted by this character builder software….
hey Johnn, welcome to At-Will!
Personally, I like D&DI. The character builder preview was great, and I like getting the previews and much of the Dragon content is strong. Dungeon I’m a little dissapointed with, honestly, but Dragon, the character builder and the compendium all make it worthwhile for me.
Ditto J4′s question. I haven’t been the least bit tempted by DDI until seeing your note on it here, and I like what I’m hearing… choosing powers and keeping them straight is such a chore, and having easy access to so mucn material for character creation would be nice.
How do you intend to “hand it over” to your players? Are you just going to give your players your login and password and hope for the best?
Hi Ike, thanks for visiting!
My understanding of it is that the password/login is needed only for the updates. For right now, I’m intending just to give players the DDI as it stands now. What I’m hoping (i.e. planning to request) is that WotC makes a group subscription for DDI, where you can give players their own login to get updates.
For me right now, I find that the price point of DDI is definitely worth what I pay. I usually get one or two professionally produced bits of content that are very helpful/inspirational from Dragon a month, access to the Compendium, the aforementioned Character Builder, plus the little stuff…Me I hoard all the bundled maps and art galleries when they release them.
To me it’s a lot of little things for not a lot of money. I would definitely suggest that someone GMing 4e at least try it, but I’m not as sure the value for players is 100% there yet past the character builder.