What's New?

with a built-in D&Di Compendium browser that's better than power cards. The new icon, found next to the red pushpin, opens your character in full-screen mode for laptop or desktop play.

including Blackberry, T-Mobile G1, other Android phones and all other devices that can run the Opera Mini mobile web browser.

ensures that no piece of character information is more than two clicks or touches away.

lets you put your character right on your Google home page or Google Desktop. The new Google Gadget link is found in the Star Menu.

New options in the Star Menu allow you to export your character to the D&Di forums, Something Awful play-by-post and other forums.

Characters embedded on other pages (including Google) can be played from those pages.

You can now add XP to your character at the end of session, so you only need to download your character when you level up or get significant gear.

Characters can now be loaded in both standard dnd4e and third-party-friendly ip4xml formats. Build your own XSL character sheets using our XML format; you can even use the full screen and mobile interfaces as starting points.

The April 28 release of the Character Builder changed the dnd4e save file format. The iPlay4e application supports both the old and new formats. Thanks to the WotC team for these changes, described in greater detail below.

We are pleased to announce our first collaboration with a third party campaign manager: Epic Words. Just click the "Embed" link in your character's start menu to get wiki code for embedding your character on any Epic Words wiki page, or to get your character key for providing when configuring your character on that site.

The new Character Builder format includes each power's action type (standard, move, minor, etc...), which has allowed us to provide icons on the main screen that lists all your powers. Plan your turn at a glance, or drill into your powers for details!

The new Character Builder format also provides attack and damage calculations for each legal combination of power and weapon. The iplay4e site leverages these calculations, and no longer has to figure it out on its own. This should eliminate a whole category of bugs, and automatically account for new feats and other bonuses as they become supported by the Character Builder.

With some powers, weapons, or feats, there are bonuses that are not always applied to your attack and damage rolls. The new format lists these, and so does iplay4e.

Digital dice for initiative, skill checks, ability checks, attack rolls, and damage rolls (and a vanilla roller in case we missed something).

Character tracking now includes temporary hit points, death saves, and magic item consumption, providing all missing features from the first tracker release.

Point your browser at labs.iplay4e.com for a preview of features that will soon be added to iplay4e. This lets our more daring users try out new features, and helps us iron out the wrinkles before we deploy those features to the main site.

Currently in the lab:

• Built in dice roller for all attack powers!
• Improved character tracking, including temporary hit points, death save, and magic item use consumption.

You can now see the latest posts to the iplay4e forum without even leaving the site. In addition, we have consolidated the main forum and the bugs forum to make things simpler.

For characters you own, it is now possible to track hit points, conditions, healing surges, action points, and power consumption. Still in progress: death saves, magic item consumption, and temporary hit points.

The outlet icon visible by any public character provides instructions for embedding that character on any web site.

Works with the new version of the DDI Compendium release on March 25th.

Browsing your characters, shared characters, and searching are now simpler.

• Magic items not included on Gear panel.
• Magic item bonuses not included in power panels.
• Rogue weapon bonus not calculated in power panels.
• Charisma score not visible on iPhone or in Safari.
• Unicode characters (umlauts, accents, etc...) in names blocked character upload.

You can now search for characters by level, race, class, role, and power source.

The file icon displayed next to each character name allows you to download their dnd4e file for use with the character builder.

Click the lock icon after browsing a character to share it with specific people. If your gaming group shares their characters with your game master, the game master can build a quick reference page including the entire party.