A Variety of Bugs and Suggestions for Character Builder, Adventure Tools, and Compendium - Downloaded from the Wizards Community, all coding removed by Solauren

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#1 jp585 Sep 27, 2010 16:05:45	I love D&D Insider, I really do, but I can't help but see the need for improvements. Adventure Tools Suggestions: Allow Monsters to be exported in Monster Builder. Add a Offline Compendium to Adventure Tools. It would help greatly for those who run D&D in comic/hobby shops that do not have an active wi-fi connection. For the Demo version of the Offline Compendium, make it so the demo user can only view the Glossary and Skill sections. That alone would please many DMs and players. Have tools for home-brewers such as. Race Builder Feat Builder Power Builder Familiar/Companion Builder Background Builder Item Builder ...Then allow these custom creations to be exported/imported into Character Builder. Encounter Tool: Have a battle tool that can be used to track players/monster initiatives, conditions, hit-points, and successes (for a skill challenge) for encounters and adventures. Possibly embed Character Builder into Adventure Tools for simplicity of updating and interactivity between applications.
#2 jp585 Sep 30, 2010 17:57:46	Suggestions: Output Gender, Alignment, Deity, Height, Weight, Age, Adventuring Company, Player Name, and RPGA Number on the Summary output. Also output whether Inherent Bonuses, Spellscarred, Harper, and House Vadalis are checked on the summary output. Also output Arcane Familiars and Animal Companions on the Summary output. For items in which have an option chosen when they are created create a separate item entry for each option, or allow the type to be specified somehow when choosing the item. This helps prevent confusion. Items that have options when created are: Armor of Resistance, Gensai Soul Armor, Polyglot Gem, Stylus of the Translator, Symbol of Foe Turning, Convert's Symbol, Eternal Chalk, Potion of Resistance, Soulfang of Resistance. Perhaps the format could be like Armor of Resistance (Fire), Polyglot Gem (Primordial), Stylus of the Translator (Primordial), Symbol of Foe Turning (Giants), Convert's Symbol (Wand), Eternal Chalk (Red), Potion of Resistance (Fire), Soulfang of Resistance (Fire) Bugs Crossbows with the Armbow quality are not being correctly managed as 1 handed weapons. When choosing a Mage's Weapon, none of the weapons should be labeled in the red 'unproficient' formatting if the wielder is proficient in daggers, since the Mage's Weapon quality technically changes the proficiency requirement for a weapon to be that as a dagger. The 'Any improvised weapon' items are missing from character builder. They would be useful for displaying damage for such things as well as showing the effect of Belt of the Brawler. There is no easy way to purchase 'Silvered Weapons'. I suggest having Silvered Weapons and Silvered Magic Weapons as store categories. Then report them as 'Silvered ______' in the summary output. The Shardmind Racial Ability bonus and Language are not being transferred to the Summary output. Submitted. Your reference number is: 101001-000330

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jp585

Sep 27, 2010 16:05:45

I love D&D Insider, I really do, but I can't help but see the need for improvements.

Adventure Tools Suggestions:

Allow Monsters to be exported in Monster Builder.

Add a Offline Compendium to Adventure Tools. It would help greatly for those who run D&D in comic/hobby shops that do not have an active wi-fi connection. For the Demo version of the Offline Compendium, make it so the demo user can only view the Glossary and Skill sections. That alone would please many DMs and players.

Have tools for home-brewers such as.
- Race Builder
- Feat Builder
- Power Builder
- Familiar/Companion Builder
- Background Builder
- Item Builder
  ...Then allow these custom creations to be exported/imported into Character Builder.

Encounter Tool: Have a battle tool that can be used to track players/monster initiatives, conditions, hit-points, and successes (for a skill challenge) for encounters and adventures.

Possibly embed Character Builder into Adventure Tools for simplicity of updating and interactivity between applications.

jp585

Sep 30, 2010 17:57:46

Suggestions:

Output Gender, Alignment, Deity, Height, Weight, Age, Adventuring Company, Player Name, and RPGA Number on the Summary output.

Also output whether Inherent Bonuses, Spellscarred, Harper, and House Vadalis are checked on the summary output.

Also output Arcane Familiars and Animal Companions on the Summary output.

For items in which have an option chosen when they are created create a separate item entry for each option, or allow the type to be specified somehow when choosing the item. This helps prevent confusion. Items that have options when created are:
- Armor of Resistance, Gensai Soul Armor, Polyglot Gem, Stylus of the Translator, Symbol of Foe Turning, Convert's Symbol, Eternal Chalk, Potion of Resistance, Soulfang of Resistance.
- Perhaps the format could be like Armor of Resistance (Fire), Polyglot Gem (Primordial), Stylus of the Translator (Primordial), Symbol of Foe Turning (Giants), Convert's Symbol (Wand), Eternal Chalk (Red), Potion of Resistance (Fire), Soulfang of Resistance (Fire)

Bugs

Crossbows with the Armbow quality are not being correctly managed as 1 handed weapons.

When choosing a Mage's Weapon, none of the weapons should be labeled in the red 'unproficient' formatting if the wielder is proficient in daggers, since the Mage's Weapon quality technically changes the proficiency requirement for a weapon to be that as a dagger.

The 'Any improvised weapon' items are missing from character builder. They would be useful for displaying damage for such things as well as showing the effect of Belt of the Brawler.

There is no easy way to purchase 'Silvered Weapons'. I suggest having Silvered Weapons and Silvered Magic Weapons as store categories. Then report them as 'Silvered ______' in the summary output.

The Shardmind Racial Ability bonus and Language are not being transferred to the Summary output.

Submitted. Your reference number is: 101001-000330