1. A way to make NPCs quickly, without going through the entire character process.
You're not supposed to make NPCs the same way you make PCs. The system for making NPCs is in the DMG and is significantly less involved than making a PC.
Then how about an adventure tool to quickly make npcs, keep track of campaign notes on those NPCs and background history for that NPC.
F-111 Interdictor Long (200+ squares) distance ally teleporter. With some warlord stuff. Broken in a plot way, not a power way. Thought Switch Higher level build that grants upto 14 attacks on turn 1. If your allies play along, it's broken. Elven Critters Crit op with crit generation. 5 of these will end anything. Broken. King Fisher Does an excellent job at keeping an enemy disabled in a few ways. Strong. Boominator Fun catch-22 booming blade build with either strong or completely broken damage depending on your reading. Very Distracting Warlock Lot's of dazing and major penalties to hit. Overpowered. Pocket Protector Pixie Stealth Knight. Maximizing the defender's aura by being in an ally's/enemy's square. Yakuza NinjIntimiAdin: Perma-stealth Striker that offers a little protection for ally's, and can intimidate bloodied enemies. Very Strong. Chargeburgler with cheese Ranged attacks at the end of a charge along with perma-stealth. Solid, could be overpowered if tweaked. Void Defender Defends giving a penalty to hit anyone but him, then removing himself from play. Can get somewhat broken in epic. Scry and Die Attacking from around corners, while staying hidden. Moderate to broken, depending on the situation. Skimisher Fly in, attack, and fly away. Also prevents enemies from coming close. Moderate to Broken depending on the enemy, but shouldn't make the game un-fun, as the rest of your team is at risk, and you have enough weaknesses. Indestructible Simply won't die, even if you sleep though combat. Sir Robin (Bravely Charge Away) He automatically slows and pushes an enemy (5 squares), while charging away. Hard to rate it's power level, since it's terrain dependent. Death's Gatekeeper A fun twist on a healic, making your party "unkillable". Overpowered to Broken, but shouldn't actually make the game un-fun, just TPK proof. Death's Gatekeeper mk2, (Stealth Edition) Make your party "unkillable", and you hidden, while doing solid damage. Stronger then the above, but also easier for a DM to shut down. Broken, until your DM get's enough of it. Domination and Death Dominate everything then kill them quickly. Only works @ 30, but is broken multiple ways. Battlemind Mc Prone-Daze Protecting your allies by keeping enemies away. Quite powerful. The Retaliator Getting hit deals more damage to the enemy then you receive yourself, and you can take plenty of hits. Heavy item dependency, Broken. Dead Kobold Transit Teleports 98 squares a turn, and can bring someone along for the ride. Not fully built, so i can't judge the power Psilent Guardian Protect your allies, while being invisible. Overpowered, possibly broken Unnamed Avenger|Runepriest/Hammer of Vengance Do lot's of damage while boosting your teams. Strong to slightly overpowered. Charedent BarrageA charging ardent. Fine in a normal team, overpowered if there are 2 together, and easily broken in teams of 5. Super Knight A tough, sticky, high damage knight. Strong. Super Duper Knight Basically the same as super knight, only far more broken. Mora, the unkillable avenger Solid damage, while being neigh indestuctable. Overpowered, but not broken. Swordburst Maximus At-Will Close Burst 3 that slide and prones. Protects allies with off actions. Strong, possibly over powered with the right party.
1) Search 2) Search 3) Search 4) The ability to mark feats/items for later consideration (wish list) 5) Search
There's a search entry at the bottom of the menu for feats, powers, equipment, rituals, alchemy, and martial practices. What else are you looking for?
Those only work for names. I have to use the compendium to search for feats that let me do things while i'm bloodied, items help with saving trows, or pagaon paths that let me fly. Guess i could of been a bit more specific.
F-111 Interdictor Long (200+ squares) distance ally teleporter. With some warlord stuff. Broken in a plot way, not a power way. Thought Switch Higher level build that grants upto 14 attacks on turn 1. If your allies play along, it's broken. Elven Critters Crit op with crit generation. 5 of these will end anything. Broken. King Fisher Does an excellent job at keeping an enemy disabled in a few ways. Strong. Boominator Fun catch-22 booming blade build with either strong or completely broken damage depending on your reading. Very Distracting Warlock Lot's of dazing and major penalties to hit. Overpowered. Pocket Protector Pixie Stealth Knight. Maximizing the defender's aura by being in an ally's/enemy's square. Yakuza NinjIntimiAdin: Perma-stealth Striker that offers a little protection for ally's, and can intimidate bloodied enemies. Very Strong. Chargeburgler with cheese Ranged attacks at the end of a charge along with perma-stealth. Solid, could be overpowered if tweaked. Void Defender Defends giving a penalty to hit anyone but him, then removing himself from play. Can get somewhat broken in epic. Scry and Die Attacking from around corners, while staying hidden. Moderate to broken, depending on the situation. Skimisher Fly in, attack, and fly away. Also prevents enemies from coming close. Moderate to Broken depending on the enemy, but shouldn't make the game un-fun, as the rest of your team is at risk, and you have enough weaknesses. Indestructible Simply won't die, even if you sleep though combat. Sir Robin (Bravely Charge Away) He automatically slows and pushes an enemy (5 squares), while charging away. Hard to rate it's power level, since it's terrain dependent. Death's Gatekeeper A fun twist on a healic, making your party "unkillable". Overpowered to Broken, but shouldn't actually make the game un-fun, just TPK proof. Death's Gatekeeper mk2, (Stealth Edition) Make your party "unkillable", and you hidden, while doing solid damage. Stronger then the above, but also easier for a DM to shut down. Broken, until your DM get's enough of it. Domination and Death Dominate everything then kill them quickly. Only works @ 30, but is broken multiple ways. Battlemind Mc Prone-Daze Protecting your allies by keeping enemies away. Quite powerful. The Retaliator Getting hit deals more damage to the enemy then you receive yourself, and you can take plenty of hits. Heavy item dependency, Broken. Dead Kobold Transit Teleports 98 squares a turn, and can bring someone along for the ride. Not fully built, so i can't judge the power Psilent Guardian Protect your allies, while being invisible. Overpowered, possibly broken Unnamed Avenger|Runepriest/Hammer of Vengance Do lot's of damage while boosting your teams. Strong to slightly overpowered. Charedent BarrageA charging ardent. Fine in a normal team, overpowered if there are 2 together, and easily broken in teams of 5. Super Knight A tough, sticky, high damage knight. Strong. Super Duper Knight Basically the same as super knight, only far more broken. Mora, the unkillable avenger Solid damage, while being neigh indestuctable. Overpowered, but not broken. Swordburst Maximus At-Will Close Burst 3 that slide and prones. Protects allies with off actions. Strong, possibly over powered with the right party.
The Search function may also work better. If I write "Shield" it will give me in return the first feat whit the letters (!!) Shield presents, in this order. Including an hypothetical arkaSHIEL Defense. And only one. Plus, sometime it just did not find anything, despite the name searched being correct.
Instead, i would prefer to be able to choose the category (name, prerequisite, effect) where search for a specific world, and recieve in return ALL of the results containg it, and make not visible all of the others.
For example, I do not care less for the name. Instead I would like a feat for fighter (first search, prerequisites) that reguard shield (sub-search inside the first, effects). If I am not satisfied enough from this, I would like to add variables in the search, like # for any numerical value (in the example, by writing Shield # it should return all of the feats whit a description that contain the word shield and any one or more numbers) or * if I am unsure about a specific letter, like in Akro* fighting style.
Actually Play'ng:
Nothing. My old party is full of short-sighted racists and sexists (on their own admission), so I left.
The Search function may also work better. If I write "Shield" it will give me in return the first feat whit the letters (!!) Shield presents, in this order. Including an hypothetical arkaSHIEL Defense. And only one.
If you hit enter, it will show the next result.
Seems like better search functions are the biggest request.
F-111 Interdictor Long (200+ squares) distance ally teleporter. With some warlord stuff. Broken in a plot way, not a power way. Thought Switch Higher level build that grants upto 14 attacks on turn 1. If your allies play along, it's broken. Elven Critters Crit op with crit generation. 5 of these will end anything. Broken. King Fisher Does an excellent job at keeping an enemy disabled in a few ways. Strong. Boominator Fun catch-22 booming blade build with either strong or completely broken damage depending on your reading. Very Distracting Warlock Lot's of dazing and major penalties to hit. Overpowered. Pocket Protector Pixie Stealth Knight. Maximizing the defender's aura by being in an ally's/enemy's square. Yakuza NinjIntimiAdin: Perma-stealth Striker that offers a little protection for ally's, and can intimidate bloodied enemies. Very Strong. Chargeburgler with cheese Ranged attacks at the end of a charge along with perma-stealth. Solid, could be overpowered if tweaked. Void Defender Defends giving a penalty to hit anyone but him, then removing himself from play. Can get somewhat broken in epic. Scry and Die Attacking from around corners, while staying hidden. Moderate to broken, depending on the situation. Skimisher Fly in, attack, and fly away. Also prevents enemies from coming close. Moderate to Broken depending on the enemy, but shouldn't make the game un-fun, as the rest of your team is at risk, and you have enough weaknesses. Indestructible Simply won't die, even if you sleep though combat. Sir Robin (Bravely Charge Away) He automatically slows and pushes an enemy (5 squares), while charging away. Hard to rate it's power level, since it's terrain dependent. Death's Gatekeeper A fun twist on a healic, making your party "unkillable". Overpowered to Broken, but shouldn't actually make the game un-fun, just TPK proof. Death's Gatekeeper mk2, (Stealth Edition) Make your party "unkillable", and you hidden, while doing solid damage. Stronger then the above, but also easier for a DM to shut down. Broken, until your DM get's enough of it. Domination and Death Dominate everything then kill them quickly. Only works @ 30, but is broken multiple ways. Battlemind Mc Prone-Daze Protecting your allies by keeping enemies away. Quite powerful. The Retaliator Getting hit deals more damage to the enemy then you receive yourself, and you can take plenty of hits. Heavy item dependency, Broken. Dead Kobold Transit Teleports 98 squares a turn, and can bring someone along for the ride. Not fully built, so i can't judge the power Psilent Guardian Protect your allies, while being invisible. Overpowered, possibly broken Unnamed Avenger|Runepriest/Hammer of Vengance Do lot's of damage while boosting your teams. Strong to slightly overpowered. Charedent BarrageA charging ardent. Fine in a normal team, overpowered if there are 2 together, and easily broken in teams of 5. Super Knight A tough, sticky, high damage knight. Strong. Super Duper Knight Basically the same as super knight, only far more broken. Mora, the unkillable avenger Solid damage, while being neigh indestuctable. Overpowered, but not broken. Swordburst Maximus At-Will Close Burst 3 that slide and prones. Protects allies with off actions. Strong, possibly over powered with the right party.
I'd like it if there was a "party" level of construction, so things like a half-elf's +1 bonus to allies' Diplomacy could be added to everyone else in the party, and that sort of thing.
As a stopgap hack, maybe make those effects no-slot, no-cost magical items.
1. Option to expand class features and feats to full power cards. I had to look up Combat Challenge and Combat Superiority every session until I printed them out from the Compendium. Also the option to display universal actions like Bull Rush, Grab,
2. Ability to have House Rules that do something instead of just being text entries. One DM wanted to run an epic fantasy campaign where we all started with 36 stat points instead of 22 points, used Inherent Bonuses, and magic items were as rare as roc's teeth. Basically Athas level PCs out to save the multiverse. He should be able to create a Campaign "definition" file for all of us so we can create our PCs.
3. Ability to change the sorting of the Feat list (in particular) as well as the Magic item list, etc. Sometimes, I don't want my feats to be categorized. Sometimes I want them in one big huge alphabetical list. There are now so many categories that I don't even know where they'll be. If I've got a feat that requires Dwarf, Fighter, and 11th level, where's it going to be? Race? Class? Recommended? Paragon? Even if I know the name of the feat sometimes I can't find it!
4. The ability to add in powers, assign them keywords, and have the CB do *some* of the math.
Imagine a form like so:
Name: [Text box] Power type: [Drop down] Power Source: [Drop down] Action: [Drop down] Keyword: [Drop down] Keyword: [Drop down] [Add a keyword button] Damage: [Number drop down] [[W] or die size drop down] [Ability mod drop down] Range type: [Drop down] Range distance: [Drop down based on type] Description: [Text area]
It doesn't have to be perfect, but things you see in Dragon can take six weeks to get to the CB. The current House Rules stuff isn't versatile enough. I'd love to see something basic to at least give us something better than what we've got. I'm not looking for perfection immediately.
5. Ability to resize the frames in the program. Man, this annoys me. I've got a large, widescreen screen monitor at home, no matter what I do the screen space each frame takes is proportional to window size and font size. Sure, I can change the "zoom level" but that just makes everything bigger or smaller (it's about as useful as zooming in on a digital picture to get more detail). No matter what I do I'm wasting a huge amount of screen space and scrolling a whole lot, or I'm just scrolling a whole lot. Sometimes I want more room for the Compendium entry, or more room for the Power Choices list, or more room for the Checklist, which is full by the time you're level 10.
If the program is rendering pages the way I think it is, though (HTML and CSS), I'm betting this will be almost impossible to allow.
6. Same as #4 but for custom items, but this is much less an issue than powers. Also for custom races, classes, PP, and ED, but this is much much less an issue than powers.
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. -- Robertson Davies
da_chicken brings up a feature I would love to see. I'd really like the ability to add houserules into the application for use by characters. A screen where we could add feats, powers, PPs, EDs and items, where those custom features worked when added by a PC, would be a godsend.
