08.16.07

Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition coming out

Posted in Colen Stuff at 5:48 pm by Colen

So we just went to the Wizards announcement of D&D 4th edition. Here’s what I remember:

  • The new Player’s Handbook is coming out in May 2008. MM in June, DMG in July.
  • The core classes are going to level 30, not level 20.
  • Classes are going to have more clearly defined “roles”. I’m not even sure what this means, I guess clerics aren’t healing enough or something.
  • They committed to fixing some stupid things, e.g. Wizards not being fun at 1st level because they only have 1 spell, and the party camping whenever the cleric runs out of healing spells.
  • They said it’ll still be d20, so presumably it won’t be totally different than 3.5 edition.
  • There’ll be a whole set of tools – 3d virtual tabletop, 3d visual character creator, “mechanics” character creator. They showed some pretty videos of these. It looked like a 3d version of maptool, pretty impressive if it’s not faked.

The audience reaction was mixed – some things were cheered, other things (e.g. Dragon and Dungeon going online) were greeted with dead silence.

Also they gave out free t-shirts (good) and USB sticks with images on them. The USB sticks also had an autorun program that crashed when I tried to exit it.

08.11.07

Things I Hate, #2

Posted in Colen Stuff at 11:45 am by Colen

“Your download will begin shortly. If it doesn’t, please click here to start it now!”

Why? Why do I have to click anything? I’m a busy man, I don’t want to wait 10 seconds from when the page loads to download your stupid file. Why can’t you just give me it NOW? Are you afraid I’ll forget what I was doing? “Jings, I clicked on the download link and Firefox asked me to save something! I wasn’t expecting that! What’s going on!”

Just give me the file before I stab you in the face, and we’ll all be happy.