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General Category => RPGs => : FuzzyDan November 30, 2010, 02:31:26 AM
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I got into the Friends and Family Beta, although I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone at WotC.
Anyone else get in and want to kick around some 4th ed?
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w'w'w'w'w'w'w'w'woah wait. That's back on?!??! It's actually gonna come out?
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It's in Beta. I loaded it up last night. It appears to have basic features so it can support all D&D editions at the moment.
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I am incapable of repeating any sort of Lifetime channel monologue or other prose that would properly convey my feelings about this, so I've gone to youtube for assistance....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU
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It's in Beta. I loaded it up last night. It appears to have basic features so it can support all D&D editions at the moment.
That would be lovely, since I play mostly 3.5 and Pathfinder.
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So how is it? Any more in depth reviews so far? Is it going to be worthwhile for Skype games?
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I work evenings, and have yet to find a group that will play post midnight Cali Time.
Supposedly it will have built-in voice chat, text chat, and dice rollers. As I was alone in the room, I only had text and dice.
It also has a partial suite of dungeon tiles, with plans of loading all of the dungeon tile sets. Also, Monster tokens, and you can make 4th-ed stat block entries on the monsters.
I have no idea how it plans to support large dungeons at the moment, as I don't think there's a capacity to save what you do in a session at the moment, but then again, I haven't really tried, and would like to get some time in as a player before I tackle the GM tools.
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I wonder what sort of rules they're going to have for recording your sessions. Imagine that, if there's no copyright notices you might be able to catch youtube videos of peoples' online D&D campaigns...
I'm really excited about the product, and I hope it turns out to be everything they hoped it would be, but it'll never get rid of my love for in-person tabletop/beef jerkey/mountain dew/jackass at the table tries to blame his fart on the guy next to him gaming.
Did they ever say what caused such a gigantic delay?
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Nope. If I had to venture a guess it is a reaction to the huge drop in subscriptions to DDI over the last few months. The common reasons are: 1) Delayed updates to the offline CB. 2) Moving the CB to online-only, after promising Dark Sun updates to the offline CB, and never delivering. 3) Never updating the Adventure tools or updating the Monster tools to support MM3 monster design. 4) Sudden drop in quality in the Dungeon and Dragon articles (It has shifted to more fluff, less crunch, and I have yet to be impressed with the fluff) and 5) No Online Tabletop.
For the time being, 1 and 2 are not going to change any time soon, 3 is supposedly "in the works," and 5 is in beta for the moment, and DDI subscribers get preferential placement in the beta as they open up more slots.
As for #4, when I logged on to claim my session keys, I was prompted to take a survey about Dungeon and Dragon.
Also, the VT is being done in Java, not .Net or Silverlight like the other tools. If the Online CB goes to a platform that can run on an iPad, oh dear lord, imagine the possibilities.
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I just got my beta invite, if anyone here in the forums is going to run a game drop me a PM or w.e