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Online Character Sheets – iPlay4e

27 January 2010 in Reviews by Iain M Norman

If you haven’t seen iPlay4e.com and you do play 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons then you must go and check out their latest offerings.

Screen shot of an online character sheet at iPlay4e.com

iPlay4e allows you to store as many characters as you’ll need, you simply upload the .dnd4e file that is saved by the DDI Character Builder. If you’re not using Character Builder then why not! Check that out as well!

I use iPlay4e during a game, both as a player and as a Dungeon Master. As DM I can have multiple characters open and keep and eye on all the PCs in my game. No longer do I have to ask, “What’s your AC” or “What’s your passive perception”. Often I can easily find information quicker than the players themselves and answer their own questions.

It can link into the DDI Compendium so that you can bring up full descriptions of powers, something that’s not printed on the Character Builder power cards, this is very useful as a DM for helping describe the effects of an exploit or spell.

iPlay4e can also save changes and keep track of a number of things, such as current hit points, encounter and daily powers used, and more. This helps me keep a track on my players as DM and as a player helps me not forget what’s be used and what has not.

So check out the latest at http://labs.iplay4e.com.

Since the dark days of the late '70s, Iain has been playing and running RPGs of one type or another. When not with his wife and children or working as a software engineer/Photoshop monkey he spends spare time either shooting pointy sticks at pointless paper targets or spending time enjoying the varied worlds of role playing.

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3 Comments to Online Character Sheets – iPlay4e

  1. Hi Iain,

    Thanks for posting about iPlay4e!

    I just wanted to make sure that labs.iplay4e.com is our public beta site – it’s where we test out new features and so on before we push them to the main site. Iain’s link is to that beta.

    That said, we’ll be going live with it within a week, so straight-up iplay4e.com will have the new interface shown in the screenshot.

    The big new features this time around? Campaign management and full-text search.

    Cheers,
    Andrew

    2. Andrew Reutter on 27 January 2010

  2. I can’t wait to use the new stuff when we start our new campaign!

    3. Iain M Norman on 27 January 2010

  3. Hi y’all,

    The redesign is now available on the main site:

    http://iplay4e.com

    Cheers,
    Andrew

    4. Andrew Reutter on 1 February 2010

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