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<blockquote data-quote="bsss" data-source="post: 9863084" data-attributes="member: 7054302">&quot;Rules as Data&quot; isn't magic, at some point the program needs the development to understand each system's idioms, and for a live service it would need upkeep and other maintenance --- be it feature expectations or making sure 5.5e changes didn't break the 3e rules engine or whatever. Maintaining legacy support in a living codebase can be one of the most obnoxious software problems because the future possibilities are held back by compatibility problems, no one goes back to the old files to port them to &quot;Data v2&quot;, and so on. You can't just one and done anything that produces a functional output in a live service.So look at it the other way, how many people would need to pay $X/mo to pay for Y developers' salaries to support a second, third, etc. system, and what is the $Z benefit to WotC to do that for a deadended (from their perspective) product? It just doesn't seem likely. Let some enthusiasts figure it out on their own, is likely WotC's internal opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bsss, post: 9863084, member: 7054302"] "Rules as Data" isn't magic, at some point the program needs the development to understand each system's idioms, and for a live service it would need upkeep and other maintenance --- be it feature expectations or making sure 5.5e changes didn't break the 3e rules engine or whatever. Maintaining legacy support in a living codebase can be one of the most obnoxious software problems because the future possibilities are held back by compatibility problems, no one goes back to the old files to port them to "Data v2", and so on. You can't just one and done anything that produces a functional output in a live service. So look at it the other way, how many people would need to pay $X/mo to pay for Y developers' salaries to support a second, third, etc. system, and what is the $Z benefit to WotC to do that for a deadended (from their perspective) product? It just doesn't seem likely. Let some enthusiasts figure it out on their own, is likely WotC's internal opinion. [/QUOTE]

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