Monster Maker Support Discontinued
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In light of the news that Wizards of the Coast is coming out with their own fully-featured Monster Maker application for D&D Insider, I’ve decided to discontinue support of Monster Maker. I will be leaving it up on my website in its current state for those who wish to download it, but I will not be making any further updates.
It’s been just over a year since I released version 1.0 of the program shortly after D&D 4e itself was released, and it’s been a great and rewarding experience. I want to thank everyone who used the program for helping to make it what it was. Without your feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, and kind words I would not have been able to make it as far as I have.
With all that said, I’m really overextended with all the things I’m trying to support and motivation to program has been in extremely short supply. Dropping support for Monster Maker will allow me– when the desire strikes– to focus on my other projects.
Even though the program is officially “dead,” I do feel I should point out that it’s still as good as it ever was, for better or worse. It certainly has some bugs left and things which could be improved, but it’s also in a perfectly stable state and perfectly capable of creating monstrosities to challenge your players.
For those of you without a D&D Insider account who would like something in active development, I’ll go ahead and recommend Dungeon Mastering Tools.
Once more, thank you to all my users, and I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Thanks very much for providing us with the tool till now. The new one from WOTC I am sure will be great, but your tool has been a lifesaver to fill that gap.
Your work was (is) appreciated more than you know. The monster maker was a HUGE boon to our gaming group. Kudos to you!
NOOOOO!
I understand, and let me thank you again — I use the MM more than any other tool. WotC will have a hard time topping the portability and utility of your tool.
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My sadness has been embiggened. Your Monster Maker is awesome and is one of my main DMing tools. A big “thank you” for all your efforts goes out to you from the wintry reaches of Canada.
Thanks again and again for the MM.
Thanks Ian for making this great program available for us
it’s helped me alot over the past 6 months
Thanks again for all the good work, Ian. I’ve been using your utilities a lot more than I’ve used and will ever use WoTC’s vaporwares.
Thank you for creating — and supporting — a GREAT tool! I have used MM to create/tweak monsters in almost every encounter of my weekly campaign plus numerous one-offs for the last year. That is a LOT of monsters!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I have probably produced 2000 monsters with your application, it was my absolute favourite tool on your site. I am sad to see it go but I thank you for putting it together and maintaining it, I love it, WOTC will never produce something as simple, streamlined and effective as you did.
Thanks Asmor!
All the best with whatever future projects you choose to pursue.
Thanks for publishing it while you could. It’s a great program and really makes it easier to make 4e monsters.
Thank you for that great tool you have been giving us. Such great tools usually come at a high cost, but you provided it to us, D&Ders, free of charge and also listened to our comments on how to make it better.
I wish you success in your future projects.
Thanks for saving me time and for improving my game
Matt
A truly awesome program that filled the gap of WoTC failure to produce what they promised on release. They should hire you on to their staff. Thanks for the program and will be checking this site out.
Damn shame.
This still is one of the best programs for 4E.
Best of luck with your other projects and hope the dry spell ends soon.
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