Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:30 pm
Well, it was supposed to do that anyway. Remember, the whole chain of 4E DDI was supposed to go:Seerow wrote:I hadnt seen that tabletop before. Why on earth does it make the player enter everything manually rather than importing the character from the character builder?
Character Builder -> Monster Builder -> Character Viewer -> Virtual Battlemat -> Virtual Tabletop
They stalled out at the Character Builder and Monster Builder. If the VT beta they actually have out for 4E is supposed to be a stalking horse for the 5E VT (which isn't a bad bet since D&D did hire an outside graphic arts team) then we'll never have the entirety of the DDI that we were promised.
Given that 5E D&D is almost certainly going down in flames summer of 2014, unless:
[*] Hasbro was already working for something DDI-like for Magic the Gathering (very hard to believe given the format of that game) or some other project and let D&D have the leftovers to convert.
[*] Hasbro is sufficiently bullshitted/convinced that the lack of DDI was cause of 4E D&D failure and the chucklefucks who are in charge of D&D won't have their act together in time for 5E D&D so hired talent on the side. While this is true, the original DDI that we were promised isn't going to save something as fail as 5E D&D.
[*] Some crazed fan cooks up this project from scratch.
Something similar to the MapTools/Fantasy Grounds VT that was in my first link is probably what we're going to get.