i just walked through the process of building a character for the first time. I wanted to give some feedback while it's fresh.
Background
Choosing a Background feels like an after-thought, rather than something you do right at the beginning. Maybe I'm weird, but I like to nail down my Background before I choose skills from my class, since I can't choose the skills from the background. The way I do this in practice goes like this (and maybe I'm weird...):
- choose class and race (usually in that order)
- Choose Background and fill in details
- Ability scores
- Racila details and choices
- Class details and choices
Equipment
Selecting equipment from a massive list of open searching is really unpleasant. Please allow filtering by type (weapon, armor, gear, etc), and categories (martial vs simple weapons, light vs heavy armor, etc) as well as magical/non-magical. If you didn't know exactly what item to look for, this would be totally useless. For example, searching "sword" does me no good. I have to know that I'm looking for "Longsword". In general, please make the equipment searcher more user friendly.
One glitch that I found is that, with the Random Character Builder, the Feats don't take prerequisites into account. The builder created a Human character, but then gave them Svirfneblin Magic as a feat, which has a prerequisite of being a Deep Gnome.
Other than that, I'm really excited to keep using this program!
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i just walked through the process of building a character for the first time. I wanted to give some feedback while it's fresh.
Background
Choosing a Background feels like an after-thought, rather than something you do right at the beginning. Maybe I'm weird, but I like to nail down my Background before I choose skills from my class, since I can't choose the skills from the background. The way I do this in practice goes like this (and maybe I'm weird...):
- choose class and race (usually in that order)
- Choose Background and fill in details
- Ability scores
- Racila details and choices
- Class details and choices
Equipment
Selecting equipment from a massive list of open searching is really unpleasant. Please allow filtering by type (weapon, armor, gear, etc), and categories (martial vs simple weapons, light vs heavy armor, etc) as well as magical/non-magical. If you didn't know exactly what item to look for, this would be totally useless. For example, searching "sword" does me no good. I have to know that I'm looking for "Longsword". In general, please make the equipment searcher more user friendly.
One glitch that I found is that, with the Random Character Builder, the Feats don't take prerequisites into account. The builder created a Human character, but then gave them Svirfneblin Magic as a feat, which has a prerequisite of being a Deep Gnome.
Other than that, I'm really excited to keep using this program!