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the information you seek is here: the_deepest_shadow@/dev/null In other words, there is no official information. Actually WoTC did say something last week: The full text of which can be found here. Fluid, to the best of my knowledge has said nothing on their website. Though there are...

I agree that the most likely problem is that the clock on the server is set wrong or that the code that manages the configuration settings for the users maps the user's timezone settings incorrectly when it asks the server what time it is. I don't think there's an operating system in existence...

I've set my time zone in the user cp options to U.S. Pacific Time, but the board displays all the times off by one hour. I'm in the U.S. Pacific Time Zone, the current time is 5:51pm and the board tells me that the current time is 6:51pm. Is there some "account for daylight savings time" check...

I'm far from an expert on this, but it seems to me that the distinction lies in whether or not you have any algorithms embedded into the binary that are specifically derived from their material. Being able to add two numbers is a generic ability. I can't see how they could tell you that can't...

I rather suspect not. If it were that easy then a simple perl script could convert the entire source of any program to something that was compliant in about 10 minutes. [/b] It seems like it. In fact that option is already being discussed on this thread.... That seems to be an open question...

All I want to know is where human readable begins and ends. The program I am working on (which may never get finished), can construct a model of a character, with all his stats, etc., etc. and will be able eventually to get all the rules outlined in the SRD correct. But the program itself...

That seems a very unwise assumption for them to have made. It is not conceptually difficult to create a binary that makes no assumptions, contains no copyrighted content, but which can model the rule system exactly just by reading an appropriate data file that contains all the SRD material. If...

That's interesting. I did download the PCGen source code and looked through it recently and I saw words like MONK and AC inside the definitions of some of PCGen's internal data structures. This put quite a sour taste in my mouth, and led me to assume that PCGen was not entirely generic in its...

In fact, in theory, (though this would be a nigh impossible thing to code), if the technology for software that is able to intuit meaning from text was just a little better, there is no reason that a person could not write a program that was capable of reading the SRD directly, figuring out the...

I'm aware of that Luke. But you misunderstand me. I am thinking much more general. I am assuming that every game mechanic will be encoded in this theoretical data file, including all the rules for how stacking works (to take your example). I am assuming that the core engine will read the...

Personally, I don't think its really a sudden change in policy on WoTC's part regarding the use of their copyrighted material. The thing that has changing I think is the nature of publishing, and companies are trying to deal with it, for better or worse. TSR would have attempted to nail you...

Who is working on it?

I would not know, but I would assume so. I know next to nothing about XML. But I am a programmer and am familiar with numberous other data formats, so I could familiarize myself with it fairly quickly. In other words, I'll set out trying to convert the SRD to XML by myself eventually I am...

This is all very interesting. I've worked off and on on gaming utility software for my game, so I have some cursory interest in this topic. I get the impression that if one codes up all of the SRD material one needs into data tables that can be read by the binary, and then has all the binary's...

The OGL has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you can do that. The reason it would have been doable before the OGL is if the owners of the copyrighted content in question chose to not enforce their rights.

Alas, you are correct. A template can evoke changes in the character that a PrC will never do. Oh well. So that is probably the root of the problem on Fluid's end I would guess. As you pointed out, a template can modify the base hit-dice of a creature. Which goes all the way down to...

Regarding d20/OGL: people may be annoyed that WoTC throws there weight around and demends d20/OGL compliance from software tools on the internet. But why people express anger at the d20/OGL on this issue confuses me. The d20/OGL is not the thing that gives WoTC the right to throw their weight...

Yes. But as I just pointed out, in the case of the ghost that's easily 2000 different configurations that you have to manually do by yourself. Obviously you could just do the manual work in question only "when you need it". But that takes longer then it takes to just create the ghost with...

The lack of templates really upset me a lot too. The suggestion made on Fluid's boards early on about how to handle this is, in my opinion, absurd. That suggestion was to create a separate race for each type of ghost. Let's see, there are easily 50+ different monsters/humanoids that might...

I suppose I could try lowering them just to see. But if that fixes the problem, there's no way I can leave them at the lower setting. I have other programs that need those settings set up high.