Compendium Update 07/10With new releases and magazine material, and the extensive errata, such as the revision of Magic Missile to form with the attack in Essentials, the D&D Insider Compendium supposedly updates today.
Talk about this update here.
Updates to the programs and to the compendium do not happen until about 10 or 11Am PST (1 or 2 PM EST). They prefer to have those be done with someone right there to make sure that things don't go kersplooey.
kersplooey?
Who do you think you are? Sara Palin?
Updates to the programs and to the compendium do not happen until about 10 or 11Am PST (1 or 2 PM EST). They prefer to have those be done with someone right there to make sure that things don't go kersplooey.
kersplooey?
Who do you think you are? Sara Palin?
As the father of a 2 1/2 year old and a 5-year old, I can tell you with 100 % factuality that kersplooey is a real word.
Why do I get the feeling the MB update got bull rushed into next month.....again?
If it did, that's something that should have been posted as soon as they realized they werne't going to make today's date. No excuse for that.
Having said that, and being someone that loves the new format, and wants his monsters in that format, it won't be the end of the world, but it does reflect on WoTC.
Still not the end of the world.
Why do I get the feeling the MB update got bull rushed into next month.....again?
If it did, that's something that should have been posted as soon as they realized they werne't going to make today's date. No excuse for that.
I'm sure the compendium update will be published as scheduled, just delayed a couple hours for some reason. I agree with you tho that information should have been posted as soon as a delay was identified.
As soon as I find something out, I will let you guys know.
Why do I get the feeling the MB update got bull rushed into next month.....again?
If it did, that's something that should have been posted as soon as they realized they werne't going to make today's date. No excuse for that.
Having said that, and being someone that loves the new format, and wants his monsters in that format, it won't be the end of the world, but it does reflect on WoTC.
Still not the end of the world.
Oh yes, I agree it's not the end of the world. It's just becoming a bit irritating now.
If only WotC would learn to communicate us when thing don't work out the way they planned. Just having Trevor or Mike come here and say "I'm sorry to say this, but......" would help alot.
I am trying to find something out, one way or another, but so far, all of my sources are hiding from me on Twitter and AIM, and they have not responded to my email.
As soon as I find something out, I will let you guys know.
Thanks Mudbunny thats much appreciated.
for you.I am trying to find something out, one way or another, but so far, all of my sources are hiding from me on Twitter and AIM, and they have not responded to my email.
At least they ignore everyone equally! :p Seriously tho, isn't there someone in charge of DDI? Seems like someone in an official capacity should provide this kind of information.
Thanks for looking into it, Muds... Very much appreciated.
I am trying to find something out, one way or another, but so far, all of my sources are hiding from me on Twitter and AIM, and they have not responded to my email.
At least they ignore everyone equally! :p Seriously tho, isn't there someone in charge of DDI? Seems like someone in an official capacity should provide this kind of information.
They don't like to allow the DDI staff come out of their redbull-induced caffeine haze enough to post on the forums. Takes too long to get them doped up again to an acceptable level.
That being said if it does get delayed till next month again I'm going to be a bit annoyed. The compendium, which I use all the time to look up rules, powers, etc., and used to use to make sure we were using the most current version of a given rule, is getting pretty out of date at this point and is becoming less and less useful.
I would think that the longer these updates are put off the further behind they're going to get...
Sigh... Just a word saying "hey sorry we had a problem, it'll be up in a few hours/days/next month" would do so much to make me a happier customer...
How about this: "It's currently being worked on and will be up in a few hours!"
Sigh... Just a word saying "hey sorry we had a problem, it'll be up in a few hours/days/next month" would do so much to make me a happier customer...
How about this: "It's currently being worked on and will be up in a few hours!"
Oh well, looks like I'll have to blame WotC when I get to work late tomorrow.
so....all the monsters will be reformatted?
I'm trying to get a list of fixes/features. I'm just a community guy. They say "Spread this good news" and I say "ALL RIGHT! I LOVE GIVING GOOD NEWS!" and you guys say "YAY! GOOD NEWS!"
I'm not sure you understand how important that little post of yours is.
It makes a huge difference just knowing someone is listening and working on it.
Thanks.
@WotC_Microbless, I'm not sure you understand how important that little post of yours is.
It makes a huge difference just knowing someone is listening and working on it.
Thanks.
Well I was hired on to listen. So I'm glad it's working for me, and for you guys.
I halted all work on my campaign until the MB got updated (about six weeks now)... I figured there was no way they could update custom monsters we made, so why make 'em. I'm hoping by four or five pm PST today.
What's your name and job title and what do you do so we know who to tell them to give the raise to?
Looks like my sig. went away.
Michael Robles
Online Community Coordinator
Wizards of the Coast.
Man, I am in love with the new layout for critters. Going to make the DM's job even easier.
Cheers!
Blakey
Hmmm, I see that the new monsters have the new format in the compendium but the old monsters have the old format. Is that going to change? I'm really surprised that the old monsters aren't using the new format as well.
Cheers!
Blakey
My old monsters have the new format.
My old monsters have the new format.
In the Compendium? (which is what this thread and my question was about).
Cheers
Blakey
My old monsters have the new format.
In the Compendium? (which is what this thread and my question was about).
Cheers
Blakey
Opps correct, my bad, I mis read.
So, can anyone tell me if there are plans to update the old monsters?
Have they been updated with new math too? Or just the format? (The format is certainly enough, but new math would be sweet icing on the cake!)
Obviously they haven't been updated in the Compendium, but might that be on deck for the next update? Seems like (though I know that just because it seems easy doesn't mean it is) if they're already updated in the monster builder, it'd be easy to update them in the compendium too!
I wouldn't really care that much except for three reasons:
1) I prefer to use OS X, and until I buy a copy of VMWare/Paralells I can't run the monster builder while using my preferred OS (which for various reasons is what I generally run while running sessions), but I CAN access the compendium there since it's web-based.
2) Sometimes I like to look something up, or even print things out when I have a free moment at work. Rather than installing the monster builder on my work computer I'd prefer to have the best version of each monster there when I do that!
3) The initiative tracking program I use will download the stat block of a given monster from the compendium while I'm running it, so I can have all the data in one pace. It'd be nice to have the new format there.
As far as I can tell, each monster in the builder has been updated to the new format but the math was not touched.
@DrOct
As far as I can tell, each monster in the builder has been updated to the new format but the math was not touched.
The builder, yes, but the online conpendium, no.
So the monster builder math did get updated? I really wish they'd do the compendium, sorta surprises me that they'd have two sources for all their monsters. That doubles up all the work. Unfortunate for those of us who use the compendium 100% and monster builder 0%.
No.
The monster builder updated the format for all the monsters to MM3 format. Math stayed the same. Though if what i'm reading, you can reset monsters, and when you do, it uses the new math.
Math and format are two different things.
As for using the compendium over the monster builder, your choice, but you do have access to the MB.
It's weird. I just went through the Compendium a bit, and a few of the MM1 monsters have the MM3 stat block format but most of them do not.
Most of the MM1 monsters who got the shiny new stat block were used in HS1: The Slaying Stone (Needlefang Drake Swarm, for example), so that makes sense. But what about the gelatinous cube, which got a reformatted stat block but (AFAIK) isn't in that adventure. Weirdness.
The monster builder updated the format for all the monsters to MM3 format. Math stayed the same. Though if what i'm reading, you can reset monsters, and when you do, it uses the new math.
Math and format are two different things.
As for using the compendium over the monster builder, your choice, but you do have access to the MB.
Compendium's faster and more convenient than the builder, so I am disappointed the formats weren't modified across the board (I don't care about the math, honestly). However, I assume that it wasn't just a matter of "change the stylesheet" for that, so I'm not going to lose a lot of sleep over it.
Cheers!
Has anyone else noticed that since the monsters now list all of the sources they appear in, the lines are huge... which would be no big deal except that when viewing 50 or 100 to a page, the bottom of the list is cut off and the bottom navigation bar shows up mid way through the list of monsters.
I'm having thiis problem, too. And it's making it very difficult to access some of the "covered" monsters.
I have poked and will get back to you guys as soon as I get a response.
Cheers Mr Bunny!