This is a post about how to get WotC Online Character Builder to work given Silverlight issues. I use Sea Monkey.

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— very stable, can type at speed on search, which Firefox 52 seems to have issues with handling. Mozilla is the group handling it, so should be very trustworthy. Safari only works in older versions of MacOS, but works well for me when I go into Safari preferences, click on the Security tab, click on plug-in settings, and turn on Silverlight for WotC sites. And sometimes, it turns itself off on updates, so I have to go back in and turn it on again - I'll know that happened when the site says, 'Download Silverlight' Firefox 52 build is a viable alternate. It seems as if it might be depreciated too, so try to not upgrade your system.

This means you need to turn off automatic updates on Firefox 52 or it will upgrade to the one that breaks it. Here's the link - click on Firefox 52 and download Note that Character Builder sometimes 'breaks' and then starts working on its own after a day or so. Here is the quick link to request support: Anyway, post about your workarounds - this way any time someone is having issues with Online CB, I can just post the link to this thread rather than needing to explain it out. This happens every so once in a while for no apparent reason. It might be Server Maintenance. System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: [CrossDomainError] Arguments: Debugging resource strings are unavailable.

Often the key and arguments provide sufficient information to diagnose the problem. See ---> System.Security.SecurityException ---> System.Security.SecurityException: [ArgSecurityException] Arguments: Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and arguments provide sufficient information to diagnose the problem.

I haven't done any programming since Pascal back in High School (html doesn't count as coding). So I'm a bit out of date (to put it mildly). If I want to update the 4e character builder that I downloaded way back when, what do I need to learn? What language?

(Yes, it would be a monstrously huge undertaking, but I have the time.)All the 'things' in the database for the offline character builder can be imported as XML. Kvest na vuden set interlyud. Look for which will allow you to import into the builder custom items, classes, powers, etc. Depends on what you want to do. If you just want to add additional data to your OCB, the CBLoader would be the way to go, if you have a current DDI account. But if you want to extend the functionality of the OCB you would have to invest more effort and lots of effort. You could essentially take the XML data form OCB/CBLoader and write your own application to read/edit/manipulate/display it. Starting from scratch you might take any language you want.

Still another avenue would be to look into. It's an open source Java application which started out as a 3.0 character generator relying on plain text files for data. AfaIK PCGen delivers some basic framewokr fo 4e characters but no data at all except some basic examples. The main question for you proibably is: do you want to work with data or do you want to devlop software?

Basically I just want to add the material that was released since the downloaded CB was 'retired' for the crappy online-only CB. So, that's going to be just about everything including essentials, themes, 3 or 4 (if not more) books. I guess that means learning xml.If you want to enter the stuff yourself, yes. If you just want the information, there are data files available that have the information already entered. CBLoader can just compile them. If you want more information, the Something Awful forums might have more information available, or you can send me a PM.

OK, so it seems I'm crippled with respect to getting Windows 8 to behave rationally. Someone (I'll avoid names to protect the guilty) was kind enough to give me links to download the old offline character builder to my new computer (so I won't have to constantly go to my old one which is slaved as an auxiliary resource).