You have up to the end of the year to export your characters and monsters from Wizards of the Coast’s D&D Insider. If you’re still using it.
The D&D Insider (known as DDI) is an application that allowed players to manage their character sheets for D&D 4. The subscription model also provided new content up until 2017.
Wizards have kept the tool going because some gamers still used it. However, the application used Microsoft Silverlight, and Microsoft no longer supports Silverlight.
Any content you have stored in DDI will become unavailable on the 1st of Jan 2020.
It is possible to export your creations, though.
Export Characters
- Go to https://ddi.wizards.com/DDiTools.aspx
- Click Launch on the Character Builder
- Click Load next to “Load a D&D Character”
- Select the character you would like to save
- Click the export button
- Name the file the name of your character
- Click Save
- You can now open your character in a notepad program and look at the raw data.
Export Monsters
- Go to https://ddi.wizards.com/DDiTools.aspx
- Launch Adventure Tools
- Click Monster List
- Click on the monster you want to save
- Click Preview on the top right corner
- Click Export on the bottom right corner
- Name your monster
- Click Save
- You can now open your character in a notepad program and look at the raw data.
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This is a blow to some of us that love 4e and find 5e to be far infirior. I am sure Wotc had reason to shutdown the revenue stream. I hope someone comes out with an alternative, but Wotc is likely to not permit it due to Copyright.
The article said why. It uses Silverlight and Silverlight is dead.
Mate, both your headline and your article are a grammatical mess.
Yep. That was a bad one. It was a rush job, and I should know better. I’ve tweaked in some improvements.
Hope they put together a searchable 4e compendium with, at the very least, book and page data, but better would be penning the entire edition up as an srd. I own all of the books (except essentials which doesn’t fit 4e correctly imo) and would love to have a readily searchable resource since everything is so scattered across all of the books.
This first part is to Enrique: 4 was more of a dungeon crawl that took the away from the creative aspect which was why a lot of people switched to Pathfinder of almost any of the predecessors of 4 until 5 came out.
That being said I know many people used the online sight including myself for character creation. What I find suprising is with the obviousness of technology changing. Why wasn’t this program transferred or rewritten
knowing Silverlight was outdated and not going to continue to be supported?
I imagine that’s a straightforward commercial decision for Wizards of the Coast. How much would they need to spend to re-engineer the platform vs how much they make in D&D 4e sales.
I got into 2nd ed back in the day of the early 1980’S. Always save nostalgia because one day your kids will discover D and D and then you’ll have raw data…