i4e – Review

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On July 21, 2010

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i4e – Review

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By: i4e

Version #: 1.0

Date Released: 2009-09-17

Developer: Cordax Software LLC

Price: 3.99

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If you know anything about me, you know I love me my gaming. Most of all, I love traditional tabletop roleplaying, including the genre’s juggernaut representative, Dungeons and Dragons from Wizards of the Coast. When I’m not dropping rocks on player characters for every insubordination in my own game, I moonlight as the wizard Archael Anaiis, a mage so powerful, his name is intentionally difficult to pronounce. Well, Archael is a first among my D&D characters, in that he’s never been on a character sheet; not a paper one, anyways. He was born and raised in a character sheet replacement app called i4e, and he’s only the first of many.

The fourth edition of Dungeons and Dragons introduced us to characters with mounds upon mounds of information. A basic first-level fighter could expect to have four or five different exploits, all with different damage values, keywords, attack bonuses, and other special effects. Keeping track of all this information would require a lot of writing, or continually referring to the book. All of this besides your character’s other stats, such as class features, ability scores, feats, defenses, resistances, saving throw bonuses, trained skills and associated bonuses, and so on.

Well, i4e handles ALL of that. It’s a comprehensive character sheet replacement tool that not only records all of your character’s vital stats, but also allows you to update those stats easily, and to track resources used over the course of an encounter or the adventuring day. Using up an encounter or daily power grays it out, so you know you can’t use it again until it recharges. When you hit a milestone, i4e gives you an Action Point and increases your item daily power allotment by 1. When you take a short rest, i4e recharges all your encounter powers for you, and of course, when you take an extended rest, it resets everything.

But it doesn’t just track stats, it also helps you calculate your bonuses to hit and damage based on keywords and ability scores. It automatically incorporates the half-level bonus to your attack rolls, skill checks, and ability checks, and it has a myriad of fields in which to enter all your miscellaneous bonuses for any given value. The level of automation is impressive, but it doesn’t override manual input. Almost everything in the app can be manually set to any given value, to account for feats, class features, or house rules.

i4e can also import or export characters in .dnd4e format, allow you to build a character on WotC’s Character Builder, and then track the character’s condition, abilities and resources dynamically on your iPhone. I have yet to find any reason to go back to using paper character sheets, and my printer is thanking me for it.

Quick Take

Value:High

Would I Buy Again:In a Heart Beat

Learning Curve:Low

Who Is It For:Anyone who plays D&D 4E; it's basically useless to anyone else

What I Like:The comprehensive character options. I can literally build any D&D character

What I Don't Like:Some complicated powers are difficult to input

Final Statement:With i4e, you'll never need a paper character sheet again.

Read the Developer's Notes:
Descriptioni4e is a character sheet replacement for 4th edition D&D allowing you to store multiple characters on your iPhone/iPod Touch. It will track your character's ability scores, hit points, powers, skills, feats, weapons and provide you with all of the information you need while playing 4th edition D&D. i4e does not create characters or provide automated leveling of characters, you will need to consult the 4th edition source material for information on accomplishing these tasks. i4e serves only to capture your character into the iPhone or iPod Touch as your character would be captured onto a sheet of paper.- multiple characters (never be without your favorite character again as long as you have your iPhone with you)- Track hit points and healing surges as well as temporary hit point usage- Easily enter any feats or powers that you wish to use- Track powers including calculated hit bonus and damage values including assignable weapons and implements that will be factored into the power usage- Track power usage (can handle all types of powers, as well as ones that burn healing surges or return hit points from their usage)- Easily accessible list of skills with the bonuses for your level and current ability scores- Track your feats- Usable for NPC's and PC'si4e is the first app for your iPhone and iPod Touch that will track all your characters making it so you'll never be without your characters again.- Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or greater- Works on both iPhone and iPod Touch

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