I know it has been a while since the changeover to the new online Silverlight 4.0 Character Builder. I have tried using it several times and I'm really not getting along with it, the format and layout of everything from character creation menus to the character sheets it generates really irk me. The old downloadable version is much better as far as I am concerned, and besides, its what I have gotten used to.

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So my question is just as the title suggests; if I get a new computer and have an active D&D Insider subscription is there any way to download the old character builder program and update it to the point where it was discontinued (legally)? I have looked around and I can't seem to find anything about downloading it.

Have WOTC just given up on it altogether? Part of me feels I am being a little bit whiny but I really just don't get along with the Silverlight Character Builder, IMO its slow and clunky and. Well I really do not like the idea that WOTC will just delete all my characters if I should ever not renew my subscription. Any info or views on the new style character builder are appreciated.

Yup, no officially sanctioned dl locations. One thing to note also is that it doesn't contain any materials or errata post last October. It's still pretty playable, but I am starting to hurt from lack of update (the update to the races to make every race have a choice for their second +2 in particular).

If I knew how to inject new material manually I would but the data structure of the program is surprisingly complex.There is a fan made patcher to the off-line character builder called CBLoader. It integrates and fuses likewise fan made patches to the CB so it has new content.

Sorry, I just saw the thread- you can't save the character locally in a format that you can then read later? As in, the online character builder's output, when saved on your local drive, can't be then loaded later from your local drive (with like, an upload)?Yes and no. You can 'print' the file as a.pdf or other digital document file and then read it or print it off elsewhere.

However, it wouldn't be a file you could upload to back to the character builder. At least that's my understanding/experience. If there's more artful weaseling to be done, I'm all ears. You can 'print' the file as a.pdf or other digital document file and then read it or print it off elsewhere. However, it wouldn't be a file you could upload to back to the character builder. At least that's my understanding/experience.

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If there's more artful weaseling to be done, I'm all ears.Yes you can use cute PDF to do that for instance. However if you do you may find that the file size might be much larger than you would think. I am told that the reason for this is that the information sent is not sent as text (like you would think) but is sent as an image which would be much larger.