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<blockquote data-quote="Harr" data-source="post: 4326950" data-attributes="member: 47190">It doesn't look like it is. When one power references another power, it's not linked. It's just text. The text search is not a keyword or tag search but an actual simple text search (ie, as noted above, you can input 'e' and every page will come up since every page contains some word which has the letter e). In other words, the script itself is looking at the info as just text, so it's hard to imagine there's some other thing in there that's not.I'd bet money that in the end, &quot;the character builder uses the database to build your character!&quot; will basically sum up to &quot;the character builder lets you search for/choose a power then copy-pastes the text from that power onto your character sheet!&quot; period.I'm not gonna completely dismiss the possibility that there's some hidden genius in there somewhere, but right now I don't see anything that I (or anyone else who knows basic PHP/MySQL) couldn't have whipped up in a couple week's worth of bored nights. Especially if I have a pdf PHB to copy-paste from.In fact, if you gave me a year to make an app like this, and I goofed off for eleven and a half months then panicked and crammed for two weeks to throw out the fastest possible thing I could, it would look much like the Compendium does right now. That's not intended to be a slam, even if it sounds like one; it's just the truth.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harr, post: 4326950, member: 47190"] It doesn't look like it is. When one power references another power, it's not linked. It's just text. The text search is not a keyword or tag search but an actual simple text search (ie, as noted above, you can input 'e' and every page will come up since every page contains some word which has the letter e). In other words, the script itself is looking at the info as just text, so it's hard to imagine there's some other thing in there that's not. I'd bet money that in the end, [i]"the character builder uses the database to build your character!"[/i] will basically sum up to [i]"the character builder lets you search for/choose a power then copy-pastes the text from that power onto your character sheet!"[/i] period. I'm not gonna completely dismiss the possibility that there's some hidden genius in there somewhere, but right now I don't see anything that I (or anyone else who knows basic PHP/MySQL) couldn't have whipped up in a couple week's worth of bored nights. Especially if I have a pdf PHB to copy-paste from. In fact, if you gave me a year to make an app like this, and I goofed off for eleven and a half months then panicked and crammed for two weeks to throw out the fastest possible thing I could, it would look much like the Compendium does right now. That's not intended to be a slam, even if it sounds like one; it's just the truth. [/QUOTE]

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