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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5000492" data-attributes="member: 28487">At the moment the character builder is providing the same network effect that Office supplied to Windows back in the old days of Window 1.x - 3.x. Of course the analogy is not exact since you could use office on the Mac.However, the prevalence of office was a big part of why Linux and other os never took off in home or even office desktops. (IMHO and all that) The point is that similarly to Microsoft there is no incentive for WoTC to spend resource to facilitate third parties. It might be possible to presuade WoTC to document the API so that a third party would be able to produce an addon that would give the required functionality and I could see this being done as it could increase the sales of core WoTC books since this additional functionality could attract people that are very third party orientated to buy in to D&D.However, in order of priorities, I would see it as down the list after the campaing management tools, the VTT and the pickup game server.It might be feasible to hack the datafile to fool the CB into adding custom content up the way one wants it but there are a lot of issues in that.Mainly the datafile format is possibly subject to change and evolution.On the other hand, it is possible that WoTC's R&D department could cause the necessary code to be written anyway if the evolution of the game requires non standard power structures in future classes.Of course all the above is pure speculation based my own observations.</blockquote>

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