Recent content by Sm!rk

That is in case, for instance, you didn't realize that WotC was a for profit company. Duh! This is like complaining that chocolate *always* tastes like chocoloate.

Don't equip the bag, just carry it. What do you expect?

My mention of standard breaking down weren't so much about what features you choose to implement, its deciding to use X, Y and Z generators in your generation process but then not sharing the end result in kind. Frankly, with VB there is no other option for you. While VB and Java can both use...

That was an off-topic aside to address your mention of speed concerns. If it matters then VB should be ignored flat out IMO. However, thats really beside the point the issue as I hear it is that you could write your app in COBOL, and it should be interoperable. (Thats not gonna happen of course...

Yeah, big picture though you have X developers and unless its a truelly internal use only app, you will have X+N users. As N goes up your tradeoff for development time versus user run time starts to become a bad choice. This same concept applies to Java as well but at its heart it is a better...

You can fail in some of the roll methods, some have rules for "bad" rolls where you are then allowed to reroll. Other than that I can't see some of the others having any failure conditions. However in a legal sense you've already lost if you go down this avenue, this is a definition of the no...

towngen, I'm not understanding your worries about speed when then faced with the reality that you are planning to do your coding with VB. TCP/IP while existing on all platforms does not mean its platform independent, far from it. Any code you write for communication will have to be rewritten...

I doubt highly that this is the case. You are saying that some number of non-technical people made a guess on software tecnology and figured that it would be out of the limits of fan based software to make a externally data driven program. Considering the open source movement have created...

Well naturally, however unless you plan on paying WotC for some other license you will not be able to use any of their copyrighted material. Simple. That is incorrect. If it were that easy then copyright/trademarks and patents would be meaningless. If your work or yourself profits from the...

How about including the license as a string somewhere in your code, const char * etc. Then including an app like string from Unix which will output all the strings in a binary, which in this case will also output the OGC license? :p

I've never used tablesmith so I can't comment on what it is actually doing when you state something is 3 times more likely to appear. But in the D&D world this is all done by dice, naturally. So if red is 3 times more likely to come up that say 3 other colors then you'll have something like...

Re: Re: Re: Other publishers' material in E-Tools? Interesting subject, has that happened with any material? Yet? If so who?

I doubt that is an issue because none of that content will ever be distributed with etools, ie packaged with it and sold in a store. You are talking about users distributing it which will require a different line of thought and discussion.

Re: ... No we don't, whats to know about licensed games? Also I'd like to point out that licensed and on contract are two different birds.

I believe it was, over on FLuids boards it was talked about before GenCon and that was before etools was out. Fluid said something to the effect that they wouldn't finish the interview until etools was out in the hands of the public. Didn't notice that but sounds like BS to me. Only thing I...