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Summary: If you are a DM this is a must have.
Review: The Core Rules CD-ROM is a great utility for DM's. If you are a player, most of the stuff contained in it will be practically useless, except for the player creation and the books. If you are a player, the best thing to do is show this to your DM because it will be a bigger help to him than you. Actually, having your entire gaming group pitch in for this, so the DM can have a copy would probably be the best idea. The player creation is great. It simplifies the sometime long procedure of creating a character. And if you'd rather roll up your character with pencil, paper, and dice, you can still enter your character for a hard copy rather than having the computer roll it up for you. The map making utility is practically useless. The maps don't look that good, and there are too few icons. The DM tools simplifiy the DM's life a lot. NPC's, random encounter tables, and the like can be created in a matter of minutes. The books that it comes with are nice to have, but they will never replace the original hard-bound paper versions. Who wants to go to their computer to look up a rule in the middle of a game, when they can have their book right there on the table with them? Not me. If you are new to D&D, don't buy this as a replacement for the books. Buy the Paper version of the Players Handbook. If you are a DM and are looking for a time saver, like I was, this is the thing for you.
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Summary: If you are into d&d don't think twice on buying this.
Review: This is a must have if you are into d&d. t is great with or without the expansion pack. You can look up just about anything, and the mapmaker is a lot better then it used to be in version 1.0 . The graphics are better, and the charecter creation is a lot easier then before. But for those of you who are not very good at using computers you might have some trouble at first, but as you use ut more and more it is a lot better. Most people would say it is out of date, but I waited 20 days for this present from christmas of 1999 and it was well worth the 20 days of boring waiting
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Summary: If you're into AD&D this software is a must have
Review: This Software for AD&D is a real must have. The first thing about this software is the ease of installing and use. Making Charters and editing them has gotten better in this one. Futher more Making monsters, NPC's, and simple maps with the map maker does get easer with use. There is one draw back though. The campain map maker is a bit diffacult to use and the Tutoral doesn't work in some of the early verisons, like the one I have, and you must download a patch to fix that problem.Of course, in the expantion for 2.0, they rectife the problem.
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