Mr. C
2015-09-14, 03:57 AM
So a player introduced me to the single most awesome thing I've ever encountered in the universe of dungeons and dragons. A completely digital fifth edition character sheet, with a step by step and extremely editable character creator.
Fastest purchase I have ever made when it came to buying something for my phone.. but wait, it gets better!
I realize that the utility of this thing isn't for me... it's best utilized for new players because it takes all the tedium and complexity and frustration out of character building and lets them jump immediately into the action with an easily readable and customizable format. To test this hypothesis of mine I invited my mom, my pushing sixty year old mom who had never played D&D in her life and didn't even know what the game entailed... and my other friend, Val, a twenty four year old girl who not only didn't know how the game was played but had the *completely wrong idea* as to what it was about. She actually scowled at me when I told her we were going to play D&D.
I get the app on their phones and within minutes rather than hours two new fighters had joined the fray and these two women who had neither played D&D in the past nor had any interest in doing so were demanding to play in our next play session. My horse owning, garden loving, "Why don't you go outside, it's a beautiful day?" mother asked me if they made any computer games for D&D. Yeah. And the gateway had been the Fifth Edition Character Sheet app found on on the Play Store and Apple Store. Except... no... THEY TOOK IT OFF THE PLAY STORE. *RAGE* This tool which made the game UNIVERSALLY easier to introduce people to... was taken down from the google store and who knows how long it'll be on the apple store.
But that's not the purpose of this post. If Hasbro felt their intellectual property rights were being violated then they're well within their rights to do something about it. No argument there. However, this app, this piddily little app changed the complete landscape for me and mine concerning D&D.
SO, D&D guys... Why don't YOU make a 5th Edition Character Sheet App? Sell it. I bought mine and paid for theirs. Three bucks. It was just that useful. It made the game so much more enjoyable and its loss so painfully felt that I felt compelled to speak up about it.
Full Disclosure: I have *zero* connection with the guy that made the original app outside of him producing an awesome product and me and everyone else I know that plays D&D snapping it up.
Fastest purchase I have ever made when it came to buying something for my phone.. but wait, it gets better!
I realize that the utility of this thing isn't for me... it's best utilized for new players because it takes all the tedium and complexity and frustration out of character building and lets them jump immediately into the action with an easily readable and customizable format. To test this hypothesis of mine I invited my mom, my pushing sixty year old mom who had never played D&D in her life and didn't even know what the game entailed... and my other friend, Val, a twenty four year old girl who not only didn't know how the game was played but had the *completely wrong idea* as to what it was about. She actually scowled at me when I told her we were going to play D&D.
I get the app on their phones and within minutes rather than hours two new fighters had joined the fray and these two women who had neither played D&D in the past nor had any interest in doing so were demanding to play in our next play session. My horse owning, garden loving, "Why don't you go outside, it's a beautiful day?" mother asked me if they made any computer games for D&D. Yeah. And the gateway had been the Fifth Edition Character Sheet app found on on the Play Store and Apple Store. Except... no... THEY TOOK IT OFF THE PLAY STORE. *RAGE* This tool which made the game UNIVERSALLY easier to introduce people to... was taken down from the google store and who knows how long it'll be on the apple store.
But that's not the purpose of this post. If Hasbro felt their intellectual property rights were being violated then they're well within their rights to do something about it. No argument there. However, this app, this piddily little app changed the complete landscape for me and mine concerning D&D.
SO, D&D guys... Why don't YOU make a 5th Edition Character Sheet App? Sell it. I bought mine and paid for theirs. Three bucks. It was just that useful. It made the game so much more enjoyable and its loss so painfully felt that I felt compelled to speak up about it.
Full Disclosure: I have *zero* connection with the guy that made the original app outside of him producing an awesome product and me and everyone else I know that plays D&D snapping it up.