I’ve used them in the past and will continue to use some in the future. Having tools that can assist players in different parts of character creation or game play is fine with me. Having used it, do you wish other RPGs you run or play offered a similar tool? Sure, why not? If I can’t handle the basic math in D&D, I probably shouldn’t be paying a monthly subscription to a company to do it for me, and instead should be going back to elementary school for a refresher course.Ģ. But the marketing and design concepts around it are making it a necessity for 4E. In its purest form its a simple tool designed to help play the game. Yes the CB is changing the way way we play D&D. Yet still, it’s a fair price to pay for all that convenience, I guess. The auto-build quick-click temptations take over. Not that you can’t take your time and generate a well-crafted PC with the Character Builder – you can. There’s a tendency (especially in Character Builder) just to go with the soulless optimal stats it suggests for the build whereas if you generate by have you’re mire likely to think about what stats you character should have not what some faceless app suggests. In return for using the convenience and speed of a number-cruncher app, we’re spending less time actually building the character from the ground up, so we don’t get to know him quite so well when we start playing. That’s true across all systems we play whether it’s Rolemaster, 3e D&D, Classic D&D, Mutants & Masterminds, 3:16, 4e D&D or whatever. In our experience, characters built by hand using good old fashioned blood, sweat, pencil and paper tend to be more well thought out, better conceptualised and more “solid” in the mind’s eye of the player. My group all use it, but at the same time wish we didn’t.
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