Comments on: Inside the Insider: The Monster Builder

By: Donny_the_DM

Donny_the_DM — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:23:03 +0000

So i can now mix and match powers with a searchable point and click / drag and drop interface?

Holy flaming shitballs! My only question, is why in the hell have we never had this kind of tool before? I mean, what fracking year IS it?

Thank you for pointing this out. The character builder (or evil BBEG generator) was worth the entire price of DDI for me. All this other stuff is freaking icing on my freaking cake!

Lets just not talk about their awful anti-piracy measures.

By: gamefiend

gamefiend — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:24:36 +0000

mmmm…artifact builder. That would be really nice, wouldn’t it?

By: Hungry

Hungry — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:04:01 +0000

I’m really jazzed by the screenshots I’ve seen so far. They look awesome, and I can’t wait to be able to search 2000+ monsters all at once.

Once WotC is done with the Monster builder, they should move on to make an artifact builder program to make it easier. Making artifacts has always been a pain in the neck (in all versions of D&D) and having a tool to help GMs out with that would be nice.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:12:51 +0000

Looks cool. If it’s like the CB, in that I can sign up for a month and keep it forever, they’ll get at least $10 from me. Not adding a monthly bill to rent DnD tools.

By: gamefiend

gamefiend — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:12:29 +0000

@kingworks I’m pretty much locked in on my DDI, so having this is just icing. I do like getting a sneak peek at the classes as well.

@wyatt I’m not so sure these replace as much as supplement creativity. You get an app thats custom-made to make monsters and that’s sweet. Text editors are nice too! (Which do you use? I’m and EditPlus fan myself).

@wampuscat whoa! don’t make too much of a mess nice though, isn’t it? I leave the day by day workings of insiders to the experts usually — Questing GM does a great job — but this I had to comment on.

By: Wampus Cat

Wampus Cat — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:05:09 +0000

*nerdgasm*

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:59 +0000

I agree with kingworks, this looks like it brings back some value to DDI. I don’t really care though, as all the fancy schmancy tools can’t beat my brain and my text editor.

By: kingworks

kingworks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:20:50 +0000

Depending on the level of editability for existing monsters (scaling levels), it looks like one of those exceeding rare reasons to actually own a DDI subscription. Shame I’m poor and/or cheap. :-S

*Goes back to working on his primitive Monster Cards for MM2*