You could level your character and the application would work out all the new bonuses and stats for you (I always seem to miss something when leveling manually). You could roll up a character, pick their skills and equipment and then print it out (complete with all relevant power cards and spells) as a properly formatted character sheet in a matter of minutes. No more rolling dice, no more frantic flicking back and forth through the players handbook all of the information you needed was a mere keystroke and mouse tap away. In the early days, Character Builder (CB) was a downloadable application that let you quickly create and then manage your characters for the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons (released June 2008). Overall I was and still am a huge fan of the Fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons but even I will admit there are problems with it (but that’s not the point of this article) but I do believe Character Builder was one of the best and most important things to come out of that release. The term has continued to be used and often devices will have what is referred to as a “killer feature”, such as push Email was on early Blackberry models or the edge to edge screen on the new Samsung Galaxy. Examples like Visicalc on the Apple II, Lotus 123 on the IBM PC or Star Raiders on the Atari 400/800. It basically referred to software so good or so useful that people would buy (at the time) expensive computer hardware just to run it. I first head the term “killer app” in the early 1980’s at the beginning of the home computer revolution.
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