Wizards of the Coast finally kill off D&D Insider; two weeks notice given

You have up to the end of the year to export your characters and monsters from Wizards of the Coast’s D&D Insider. If you’re still using it.

The D&D Insider (known as DDI) is an application that allowed players to manage their character sheets for D&D 4. The subscription model also provided new content up until 2017.

Wizards have kept the tool going because some gamers still used it. However, the application used Microsoft Silverlight, and Microsoft no longer supports Silverlight.

Any content you have stored in DDI will become unavailable on the 1st of Jan 2020.

It is possible to export your creations, though.

Export Characters

• Go to https://ddi.wizards.com/DDiTools.aspx
• Click Launch on the Character Builder
• Click Load next to “Load a D&D Character”
• Select the character you would like to save
• Click the export button
• Name the file the name of your character
• Click Save
• You can now open your character in a notepad program and look at the raw data.

Export Monsters

• Go to https://ddi.wizards.com/DDiTools.aspx
• Launch Adventure Tools
• Click Monster List
• Click on the monster you want to save
• Click Preview on the top right corner
• Click Export on the bottom right corner
• Name your monster
• Click Save
• You can now open your character in a notepad program and look at the raw data.