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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iwarrior-poet" data-source="post: 3707206" data-attributes="member: 13860">Well, the dreaded moment we have been waiting for has finally come. WoTC is coming out with 4e and it will be VERY tightly linked to various digital aides. It will probably be shoddy at first (witness the server failure that WoTC has had for the last 20 hours), but eventually it will work---and it will drag a lot of us kicking and screaming into 4e.Now is the time for 3rd party DnD digital game aid creators to produce a truly creditable piece of software for those of us who want to stay with 3.5. I have well over $2000 dollars worth of investment in 3.5 and I DO NOT want to migrate to 4.0---but I will if their DI significantly aides gameplay. I am pretty sure I speak for a very large part of the potential DI market (anyone 21+years with a sizable investment in 3.5).So here is the challenge to you 3rd party developers, you now have nine months to create a slick, capable, powerful game aid. You already know what it needs to do, but let me give you a short list:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Character generation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Easily generate custom Prestige Classes, Feats, magic items---without having to know a single lick of code</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Easily create CR based monsters/npc stat blocks with customizable fields (ie CR 10 Duergar encounter)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Slick gui</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">leveling wizard</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Able to create, import, export datasets</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Be error free (both in implementation and in the resulting PC's/Statblocks)</li> </ol>OK, there you have it. And yes, before some of you reply with terse, "We already do that!" responses----No, you don't. (ahem, KingPaul) There isn't a piece of software out there that can EASILY accomplish all of the above--and I have tried most everything out there.Now if someone can truly lay claim to this ability----and it is a slick, well produced piece of software----you may well have a very, very large market. Just take a peek at the 'Doomsday' thread at WoTC's 4e boards---plenty of folks are angry at WoTC and would love a good alternative---particularly in the DI field. CMP blew it---who will answer the call?If not, then all of us, ALL of us, will eventually be chained WoTC's revenue stream for a long, long time.</blockquote>

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