Does anyone know how to update the Demo without subscribing to DnD Insider?

I can uninstall the program, but it no longer asks me which version of the application I want to download (and always downloads the April 2009 version).

It gives the "Update Character Builder" screen when I start it, but it requires a name/password to update for you.

Dwarf Druid ( Read more... )

Her name is Thorn, and she would call herself a skald, rather than a bard. After all, she doesn't just sing songs, she sings the important songs, full of history and mythology and the fuzzy places where the two overlap. She is the living history of her people, or at least the portion of her people represented by one little neighborhood's collection ( Read more... )

Okay, I worked up an artificer, and went from having little idea as to whether I was making something useful, to no idea whether I'm useful. Apparently an artificer is a "Leader" character, which unlike your normal definition of Leader, means buffer/debuffer ( Read more... )

Because it's always fun to tank ( Read more... )

It's come down to two, and I'm on the fence. So help me out, folks. Who do you want to see me playing?

( The candidates! )

I don't have a whole lot of experience with 4e (I've played it once, but own no books) so I played with the Character Editor some ( Read more... )

I like the idea of playing a Keeper and I've been thinking about what sort of character I want to play that works with animals.  There are a variety of options that I've been poking at.  Do we care if we double up on classes, specifically two rangers since ect  also seems to be inclined that direction?  Don't worry I'm looking at a variety other ( Read more... )

1) Is there room for a sort of Ministry of Morale in the city government? It hooks into the civil servants aspect, and given the way the setting is shapping up, "Soviet-style political officer" makes more sense as a background for the character I'm thinking of than "failed marketing exec ( Read more... )

I am all kinds of excited to give this a go, and will be hopefully arranging for a D&D Insider compatible computer tonight to get character building started. That said, a few questions/points for us all to discuss ( Read more... )