Recent content by jeffwhitfield

The d20 Fight Club app is based on the Basic Rules and includes some content from it like spells and such so I can only presume they got permission from WotC to release it. Either that or WotC doesn't really care so long as you don't include content from the books. Dunno. But this does raise...

Nah, you're not being a wet blanket. Very, very good point. Thanks for the correction! :) I think what I meant was that getting permission to use stuff from the Basic Rules is much, much easier. WotC isn't likely to get pissed if you do that. It's the published books that they make money off...

Anyone can develop a D&D app based on the 5e Basic Rules. The d20 Fight Club 5e app is a good example (https://www.facebook.com/pages/d20-Fight-Club/241147409230126). You don't have to deal with WotC copyright unless it's specific content taken from the books that aren't in the Basic Rules. That...

If you're talking about mobile applications, the only time that's a problem is if you're trying to create truly "native" mobile apps. You can create cross-platform apps that work well using PhoneGap along with various mobile frameworks out there, which is much, much easier to deal with than...

That's news to me. Honestly, I didn't even know about the iPad version. All I knew about was the website itself. Strange. Wish they notified beta users better cause I probably would have tested it. Even then, I honestly wasn't too impressed with the website version. Just wasn't all that...

Actually, no, Dungeonscape never worked. It was a confusing mess and wasn't at all useable, especially on tablets (ie. iPad). The problem I had with Dungeonscape and just about every RPG utility out there is that all of them suffer from pretty poor design decisions. About the only one I'm...