Today's update was another that was heavy on bug fixes. We addressed almost 200 bugs this time around, as well as some server and client side stability issues. You can find a more detailed list of those bugs here.Character Builder
- Dragon 394 Content
- Dungeon 285 Content
- Added blank portrait option
- Power Cards now properly ordered on character sheet
- Play data cards added (such as action point card and abbreviated character sheet card)
Compendium
- Dragon 394 Content
- Dungeon 285 Content
Looking Ahead
We continue to squash bugs and add features to the Character Builder - we'll have more news on next month's feature additions as we near the end of February. We're also moving ahead with the D&D Virtual Table and Adventure Tools betas. The focus for the AT beta at this point is to make sure that we get the monster import feature working for the VT. Once that's accomplished, we will look at adding functionality to the tool and have the beta testers check out those features as well. As always, have fun with the new content and make sure to report any bugs you find, and stop by the D&D Insider and Character Builder forums to join in on the conversations.
So sad...
No executioner Assassin... So the 394 content is not complete :P
So sad...
Soon...
still waiting for the OG character sheet and being able to edit information like HP and surges on the character sheet viewer though, and the ability to import portraits.
I am poking Trevor about the Execiutioner Assassin.
Also, today is the 8th
Cheers
I would like some more information about character portraits and whether they are eventually going to be customizable or if it's something we should not expect. I'm curious about this issue and whether what people say about legal issues is valid or not. I would like to know if the ability to add extra feats is being worked on as well. I much rather have this feature than the ability to change magic items which was mentioned to be on the drawing board.
I also would like to see what bugs were fixed over the last few weeks.
I also would like to see what bugs were fixed over the last few weeks.
Allow me to re-quote my OP:
As noted by Trevor in the stickied/locked post.Today's update was another that was heavy on bug fixes. We addressed almost 200 bugs this time around, as well as some server and client side stability issues. You can find a more detailed list of those bugs here.
I apologize. I read both Trevor's post and yours and still didn't see it.
I see your apology, and deem it insufficient!!
I demand tribute!!
And grovelling!! More grovelling!!
So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the whole thing comes up in Heroes of Shadow. When that book's content gets rolled into the Character Builder is when we can expect to build the Executioner Assassin using the tool.
So.... we had the final version in November by mistake... then we got the final final version in December. Does this mean we're getting the final final final version in HoS?
So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the whole thing comes up in Heroes of Shadow. When that book's content gets rolled into the Character Builder is when we can expect to build the Executioner Assassin using the tool.
I have to say, this is rather disappointing news. And another example of poor communication from WotC. I can accept the assassin no longer being 'exclusive' to DDI - 20 months is enough time to move away from that original decision.
But why did we have three recent months of Dragon magazine that focused on giving us the Assassin? Presented it as genuine content, when it was entirely a playtest for a different product? Why do we have an upcoming book, rather than giving us more new material, instead rehashing something that fans already thought was complete? Why has the Executioner been out for close to two months, and we are only now being told that it isn't actually a finished version?
I apologize. I read both Trevor's post and yours and still didn't see it.
I see your apology, and deem it insufficient!!
I demand tribute!!
And grovelling!! More grovelling!!
I withhold tribute until I learn about portraits and house ruled feats =). While I don't mind setting my portrait to a blank field I am curious if this is that is the last to be done for portraits or what?
It was such a nice thing to be able to use my own pictures when I printed up my character sheets. I'd like to know if I should stop expecting to be able to do that with the new builder.
So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the whole thing comes up in Heroes of Shadow. When that book's content gets rolled into the Character Builder is when we can expect to build the Executioner Assassin using the tool.
I have to say, this is rather disappointing news. And another example of poor communication from WotC. I can accept the assassin no longer being 'exclusive' to DDI - 20 months is enough time to move away from that original decision.
But why did we have three recent months of Dragon magazine that focused on giving us the Assassin? Presented it as genuine content, when it was entirely a playtest for a different product? Why do we have an upcoming book, rather than giving us more new material, instead rehashing something that fans already thought was complete? Why has the Executioner been out for close to two months, and we are only now being told that it isn't actually a finished version?
It's their "new direction" that they seem to be taking. Like telling you the EoDS would be out Monday, and now it appears to have been "rescheduled" as well.
I can honestly say right now, I"m glad I cancelled and I'm not paying for this fiasco.
So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the whole thing comes up in Heroes of Shadow. When that book's content gets rolled into the Character Builder is when we can expect to build the Executioner Assassin using the tool.
Alright thanks for the update. I was hoping we'd get it like the seeker or the other playtests early. But at least we have an answer. thanks again.
Not to mention, as said above, being told it's final content that we can't use till April or even May is pretty disappointing.
So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the whole thing comes up in Heroes of Shadow. When that book's content gets rolled into the Character Builder is when we can expect to build the Executioner Assassin using the tool.
Are you flipping f'ing serious? What a joke.
Is there any way we could get this version in the character builder? I've got a player chomping at the bit to get it up and running, and while yes, I can do it on paper, the builder really is much nicer.
Not to mention, as said above, being told it's final content that we can't use till April or even May is pretty disappointing.
Well, if it comes out in March, probably by GenCon you'll have it in the OCB.
Is there any way we could get this version in the character builder? I've got a player chomping at the bit to get it up and running, and while yes, I can do it on paper, the builder really is much nicer.
Not to mention, as said above, being told it's final content that we can't use till April or even May is pretty disappointing.
Well, if it comes out in March, probably by GenCon you'll have it in the OCB.
It comes out in April.
Is there any way we could get this version in the character builder? I've got a player chomping at the bit to get it up and running, and while yes, I can do it on paper, the builder really is much nicer.
Not to mention, as said above, being told it's final content that we can't use till April or even May is pretty disappointing.
Well, if it comes out in March, probably by GenCon you'll have it in the OCB.
It comes out in April.
So post GenCon then.
Is there any way we could get this version in the character builder? I've got a player chomping at the bit to get it up and running, and while yes, I can do it on paper, the builder really is much nicer.
Not to mention, as said above, being told it's final content that we can't use till April or even May is pretty disappointing.
Well, if it comes out in March, probably by GenCon you'll have it in the OCB.
It comes out in April.
But it won't be in the OCB till who knows when?
So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the whole thing comes up in Heroes of Shadow. When that book's content gets rolled into the Character Builder is when we can expect to build the Executioner Assassin using the tool.
The hell?
The final class was printed and compiled in the rules-legal source, a Dragon monthly compilation. After being play tested, and delayed. And now it's being further delayed. I probably wouldn't be playing one anyway. But this is just SO disappointing. Not only is something that's been slated to come out for several months being delayed, it's being delayed because of a completely hidden decision that contradicts the apparent purpose of Dragon content AND being pushed back from the online tools for probably at least another 3 to 4 MONTHS.
Not to mention that that is now a month of dragon where probably half the crunch content is apparently only a preview of book content. The Executioner was the single largest piece of crunch released in the last few months, and it's extremely disappointing to find out that it's not considered finished after all the development there's been on it. Not to mention its now-apparently-dubious legality.
Seriously? Seriously seriously?
That's some major cojones. In several senses of the word.
Really not persuading me to re-up, here.
So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the whole thing comes up in Heroes of Shadow. When that book's content gets rolled into the Character Builder is when we can expect to build the Executioner Assassin using the tool.
The hell?
The final class was printed and compiled in the rules-legal source, a Dragon monthly compilation. After being play tested, and delayed. And now it's being further delayed. I probably wouldn't be playing one anyway. But this is just SO disappointing. Not only is something that's been slated to come out for several months being delayed, it's being delayed because of a completely hidden decision that contradicts the apparent purpose of Dragon content AND being pushed back from the online tools for probably at least another 3 to 4 MONTHS.
Not to mention that that is now a month of dragon where probably half the crunch content is apparently only a preview of book content. The Executioner was the single largest piece of crunch released in the last few months, and it's extremely disappointing to find out that it's not considered finished after all the development there's been on it. Not to mention its now-apparently-dubious legality.
Seriously? Seriously seriously?
That's some major cojones. In several senses of the word.
Really not persuading me to re-up, here.
Rules legal only means anything to LFR not the remainder of the populace. To them it was a preview of a class coming out in April in Heroes of Shadow.
Rules legal only means anything to LFR not the remainder of the populace. To them it was a preview of a class coming out in April in Heroes of Shadow.
Ahh, but that was never stated when it came out in it's "finalized" form.
Rules legal only means anything to LFR not the remainder of the populace. To them it was a preview of a class coming out in April in Heroes of Shadow.
Ahh, but that was never stated when it came out in it's "finalized" form.
Not to mention the fact that all previous previews made their debut in the CB.
Not to mention the fact that all previous previews made their debut in the CB.
Yeah, they did, didn't they?
I'm not sure how much place I, as a nonsubscriber, have to comment on this, but...it was really crappy for WotC to string the subscribers along like that. Bad form.
Not to mention the fact that all previous previews made their debut in the CB.
I'm not sure how much place a nonsubscriber has to comment on this, but...it's really crappy to string the subscribers along like that. Bad form.
I've only been a non subscriber for a month. Previously, I had been subscribed since it went to a paid format. My sub lapsed last month.
Not to mention the fact that all previous previews made their debut in the CB.
I'm not sure how much place a nonsubscriber has to comment on this, but...it's really crappy to string the subscribers along like that. Bad form.
I've only been a non subscriber for a month. Previously, I had been subscribed since it went to a paid format. My sub lapsed last month.
I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about you! My apologies!
I was talking about me (as in, "is it my place to comment"). I was a from-the-first-days subscriber myself; I cancelled for a refund a couple days after the new CB arrived. I edited the post you quoted to make it more clear.
The assassin will be a ddi exclusive class. Nope, the assassin will now be featured in Heroes of Shadow.
Heroes of Shadow is delayed a month for 'reformatting' so as to change the book size, but that the rules of HoS themselves aren't changing, so we shouldn't worry. Nope, Wizards now tells us that the executioner assassin in this book has rules which are still under adjustment.
This book hits the streets in two months. Shouldn't the book already be at the printers by now? If they're still in the editting stage, the printing/shipping of the book is going to be a bit of a rush job.
Specifically, March of the Phantom Brigade is a campaign option, but Dragon-based character options explicitly allowed in the character creation instructions aren't available. Specifically:
- Essentials Assassin/Assassin: Executioner*
- Staff Fighters
- Pyromancy
- Earth Domain!
- Class Acts: Star Pact Hexblades
- Hexblades: The Lady's Gift
These are exactly the things that an Insider would expect to have easy access to—the whole point is to come to a WotC event like D&D Encounters with something special, interesting and probably unique.
Sure, there's a workaround: creating a home campaign character. But that exercise is incredibly frustrating because of all the illegal options you have to filter out. What exactly is the difference between the options available to a Quick D&D Essentials character and a character in the Encounters Campaign?
* I know, I know I read the above posts. Knowing something like this in advance is also something that seems part and parcel of being an "Insider," if that term had any meaning other than marketing.
Sure, there's a workaround: creating a home campaign character. But that exercise is incredibly frustrating because of all the illegal options you have to filter out. What exactly is the difference between the options available to a Quick D&D Essentials character and a character in the Encounters Campaign?
* I know, I know I read the above posts. Knowing something like this in advance is also something that seems part and parcel of being an "Insider," if that term had any meaning other than marketing.
Rules legal only means anything to LFR not the remainder of the populace. To them it was a preview of a class coming out in April in Heroes of Shadow.
Fair point....
Except that the number of people here who are surprised, shocked and disappointed about the decision would seem to be a solid argument against the fact that the remainder of the populace understood it to be purely a preview of a HoS class.
I knew it was also being reprinted in HoS (and it disappointed me slightly), but I had no idea, until yesterday, that WOTC were treating what was supposed to be a DDI-Exlcusive playable character class (at least for a few months) entirely as a preview of a book.
And yes, as an LFR player, Dragon is a legal rules source. It is also a legal rules source for D&D as a whole. Some non-organised-play DMs also care about that too, you know. Pop into CharOps and see if you can persuade the people there that rules legal means nothing outside of LFR... Or Rules Q&A... Or Encounters... I could go on, but I've taken up enough of your time already.
But that being said; it's the bait-and-switch bulldump that bothers me more than anything. If the class had been released explicitly as a preview, and removed from the compilation as the original playtest was, that would have been OK for me. I wouldn't have been pleased about it, but I would have accepted it. But it was released as a finalised, playable, rules-legal class, and now apparently (according to a forum post, no actual official announcement through any official channels) it might not be. Unclear communication really shouldn't surprise me any more, but this is a step beyond.
That it got delayed for datas error i can understand. But to HOLD ON material purposefully until some other delayed book, supposedly because it is getting hardbounded is finally released ?
Why just why ? Another bad decision at the expenses of DDi subscribbers for your own freakin benefits and IP.
DDi diserves it. We diserve it. I don't care about Heroes of Shadows until it is released.
I want the Execitioner in the program i pay for and which is supposed to contain ALL of Dragon 394 with as less delay as possible.
I feel i am getting shortsticked to say it politly.
Plague
So was there actually any new features added in other then a blank character picture?
Some of those listed bugs are big ones but some are pretty minor. Centering text in windows and other display issues. 200 bugs is impressive however I'm concerned about the rate of improvement and features being added to get it up to not only the old CB level of features but then we have the time it will take to get EVERYTHING in the VT fully functional.
It could well be 2012 before that.
Specifically, March of the Phantom Brigade is a campaign option, but Dragon-based character options explicitly allowed in the character creation instructions aren't available. Specifically:
- Staff Fighters
That article doesn't have a Heroes of the F* stamp. It probably should, but it doesn't. It's not technically a legal resource for Encounters.
[The Staff Fighters] article doesn't have a Heroes of the F* stamp. It probably should, but it doesn't. It's not technically a legal resource for Encounters.
Your point is interesting and relevant to the issue.
Your point is interesting and relevant to the issue.
It's not missing from the March of the Phantom Brigade update if it's not supposed to be there. *shrug*
I'm not going to resub.
I've been part of DDI since the beginning, but that's it. My sub runs out in june (I bought the year), and I'm going to let it run out since I have no expectation that the state of the online content will improve at all. This has been happening since AUGUST. That's nearly 6 months of not having your fracking act together.
Seriously. No Executioner?
That was Dragon Content that I F**KING PAYED FOR.
Not in the builder that I'm also F**KING PAYING FOR.
I'm going to stop coming to the WotC forums as well. Everytime I come here to hear about the state of the game, I just get more news that pisses me off.
Of course, I'm not going to stop playing D&D, that would be silly. I'm just going to cut WotC out of the equation.
The only significant chunk of content in months was apparently just a playtest to WotC, an advertisement.
So what's it going to take? How much are you going to allow them to reduce the value of this product before you say it's enough?
Even then, im considering ending my subscription. Just need to make sure to go back and download everything first.
I know, I was threatening to do this before, I had even turned off auto-renew. The essentials assassin and hexblade/pyromancer articles actually seemed like the mags were on their way to recovery.
I resubscribed quite soon after cancelling thinking I had made a hasty decision to cancel that I would regret and now I'm thinking the re-up was the wrong and hasty decision. Frankly, I am tired of announcements being made (albeit rarely) with absolutely no follow through.
The Executioner class is another monumental screw up as this was clearly sold as a DDI exclusive class. Forgetting someone like me who has been around the game for many years, I feel sorry for any new players introduced to D&D and DDI through Essentials who had the promise of a new and exclusive class that the OCB doesn't now support and seemingly won't until the summer.
The AT Beta (one of the reasons I re-upped) is useless and without an export feature in this package for the VT, the VT Beta is left useless to me unless I am prepared to invest time I do not have to do things I can do with Masterplan next to no time.
Get a grip Wizards! Your product is going down the tubes and from where I'm sitting, you don't seem to care a great deal!
Is there anybody else thats having an issue with printing their characters? Encounters is tonight, so a quick reply would be appreciated.
Your most likely problem is that you're printing on A4 paper. Try the tips here: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
I was looking forward to have the Executioner in the OCB. I really am disapointed.
That it got delayed for datas error i can understand. But to HOLD ON material purposefully until some other delayed book, supposedly because it is getting hardbounded is finally released ?
It strikes me as somewhat similar to holding back the Dark Sun and Essentials material as sales points for the online CB. Not the same thing exactly, but...similar. Distasteful.
I think that did it.
I'm not going to resub.
I've been part of DDI since the beginning, but that's it. My sub runs out in june (I bought the year), and I'm going to let it run out since I have no expectation that the state of the online content will improve at all. This has been happening since AUGUST. That's nearly 6 months of not having your fracking act together.
Seriously. No Executioner?
That was Dragon Content that I F**KING PAYED FOR.
Not in the builder that I'm also F**KING PAYING FOR.
I'm going to stop coming to the WotC forums as well. Everytime I come here to hear about the state of the game, I just get more news that pisses me off.
Of course, I'm not going to stop playing D&D, that would be silly. I'm just going to cut WotC out of the equation.
Yeah, I'm at the same point. I've been really patient, I've been understanding, but this is getting ridiculous. We had a fairly streamlined system with lots of good magazine articles that saw regular turnover into the CB, ditto with books. Now they've canceled half the books for the year, the magazine content is sparse, and there is no consistancy to the updates or when data goes into the CB. Oh yeah, and we are still dealing with a CB that has half the functionality of the old one. They can't even add a ****ing button to turn on a feature ALREADY IN THE CODE. I'm done.
So what will it take, insiders?
The only significant chunk of content in months was apparently just a playtest to WotC, an advertisement.
So what's it going to take? How much are you going to allow them to reduce the value of this product before you say it's enough?
Like I said in your linked thread, when the tools stop be useful to me, I will stop paying for them.
Is there anybody else thats having an issue with printing their characters? Encounters is tonight, so a quick reply would be appreciated.
I am having the same problem. I can't get it to print anything. I get the windows print dialog window to come up, but when i click print nothing happens. The dialog window disappears, but nothing ever prints or shows up in my printers queue.
I think that did it.
I'm not going to resub.
I've been part of DDI since the beginning, but that's it. My sub runs out in june (I bought the year), and I'm going to let it run out since I have no expectation that the state of the online content will improve at all. This has been happening since AUGUST. That's nearly 6 months of not having your fracking act together.
Seriously. No Executioner?
That was Dragon Content that I F**KING PAYED FOR.
Not in the builder that I'm also F**KING PAYING FOR.
I'm going to stop coming to the WotC forums as well. Everytime I come here to hear about the state of the game, I just get more news that pisses me off.
Of course, I'm not going to stop playing D&D, that would be silly. I'm just going to cut WotC out of the equation.
If you've got that long left to run, cancel, and demand a refund. Things will not improve if you keep paying for the service.
If you've got that long left to run, cancel, and demand a refund. Things will not improve if you keep paying for the service.
Got an email reply to this, so I'll let you in on my reasoning.
I'm content to let them have my 40 odd dollars for now. I still use the compendium on a daily basis. I don't know if that will still be the case when my campaign wraps up but for now, it's still very useful.
AND I'm sincerely rooting for the situation to improve.
Sincerely.
But dude, it's like being a fan of... I don't know, what's a really crappy baseball team that never wins anything? It's like being a fan of theirs.
But dude, it's like being a fan of... I don't know, what's a really crappy baseball team that never wins anything? It's like being a fan of theirs.
Leave the poor Cubs fans out of this!
Wow. Just wow. This is seriously low. Dragon content has been absolutely abysmal for months, and one of the few large crunch articles turns out to not actually be a written article! It's just copy and pasted from Heroes of Shadow. This is pathetic. It's also false advertising as it's presented as the class, not the preview of the class that's coming out in a book in a few months. I'm so glad I stopped paying you people for DDI.
Also, based on this, I'm not buying Heroes of Shadow. I payed for the Executioner once. There's no way I'm paying you for it twice. This is crap.
My DDI account is no longer on auto-renew.