[Character Builder] Will it every be customizable?

[Dausuul]

If they created a tool with which regular non-technical folks can create new powers, feats, races, and classes, it would surely be a huge help to their own internal development process. And having created it, why not release it for the benefit of DMs? It could add a lot of value to the DDI, for the same reason that modding adds value to many computer games.

 

[nightwyrm]

Couldn't you already houserule certain stuff in by clicking on the little house icon?

 

[ExploderWizard]

Couldn't you already houserule certain stuff in by clicking on the little house icon?

To a limited extent yes, but the mechanical impact might not be integrated into the character sheet. If I wanted to make a custom magic item that gave stat boosts + some other abilities those bonuses would not actually raise the stats from the item, much less flow through and alter bonuses to powers.

 

[hexgrid]

If they created a tool with which regular non-technical folks can create new powers, feats, races, and classes, it would surely be a huge help to their own internal development process. And having created it, why not release it for the benefit of DMs? It could add a lot of value to the DDI, for the same reason that modding adds value to many computer games.

In an exception based system like this, I think creating an interface that non-programmers can use for customizations would be a project at least as big as the character builder itself.