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<blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 6138536" data-attributes="member: 36160"><p>In terms of the product I want for them to develop: I guess I want them to allow me to "write my own ruleset".</p><p>I want to be able to curate a ruleset which I can share with others in my game, which lets me select from among the Wizards-published rules or write my own house rules or share house rules with other DMs, write comments on things, disallow sources, create new sources, and merge it with my campaign notes and PC records.</p><p></p><p>So this would be a rules reference, which knows how to pull from various sources via filters.</p><p>And a campaign manager, which can be used to do rules lookups and augment the rules lookups with additional sources of input (my campaign!).</p><p>And a character generator, which creates characters which can be put into campaigns (or carried around, or whatever).</p><p>And monster/NPC/trap/campaign note generation facilities, with appropriate levels of sharing.</p><p>And a loot-and-xp-dividing application which we can use to hand out schwag.</p><p>And the whole thing should be webpage-y driven -- they can make apps or programs or whatever fool thing they want, so long as I can also get to it with my phone or tablet. Which isn't necessarily an apple device.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm a computer scientist.</p><p></p><p>I would dearly, dearly love it if the guts of the ddi for the next generation were just exposed to all comers; there's some markup language (which renders nicely in the browser) and a real service behind it.</p><p></p><p>For example, I would like to have some published, forever-true statement that if I hit</p><p><a href="http://ddi.wizards.com/spells/color-spray" target="_blank">http://ddi.wizards.com/spells/color-spray</a></p><p>with a valid ddi cookie in my browser, I get some formatting returned that says something like</p><p></p><p>with the CSS magic to make all this stuff display beautifully in a browser.</p><p></p><p>Then they can almost do whatever they want, as long as they let us geeks write tools -- on our own dime, in our own free time, requiring the use of their service so they can charge stuff -- that will inevitably be better than whatever they actually pay for* from the point of view of me, the consumer.</p><p></p><p>---</p><p>* Someone's going to yell at me about the poor writers and designers needing some sort of CMS. Yes, yes they do. But I want a DDI I can use. Them getting data into it is their problem <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lackhand, post: 6138536, member: 36160"] In terms of the product I want for them to develop: I guess I want them to allow me to "write my own ruleset". I want to be able to curate a ruleset which I can share with others in my game, which lets me select from among the Wizards-published rules or write my own house rules or share house rules with other DMs, write comments on things, disallow sources, create new sources, and merge it with my campaign notes and PC records. So this would be a rules reference, which knows how to pull from various sources via filters. And a campaign manager, which can be used to do rules lookups and augment the rules lookups with additional sources of input (my campaign!). And a character generator, which creates characters which can be put into campaigns (or carried around, or whatever). And monster/NPC/trap/campaign note generation facilities, with appropriate levels of sharing. And a loot-and-xp-dividing application which we can use to hand out schwag. And the whole thing should be webpage-y driven -- they can make apps or programs or whatever fool thing they want, so long as I can also get to it with my phone or tablet. Which isn't necessarily an apple device. I'm a computer scientist. I would dearly, dearly love it if the guts of the ddi for the next generation were just exposed to all comers; there's some markup language (which renders nicely in the browser) and a real service behind it. For example, I would like to have some published, forever-true statement that if I hit [url]http://ddi.wizards.com/spells/color-spray[/url] with a valid ddi cookie in my browser, I get some formatting returned that says something like with the CSS magic to make all this stuff display beautifully in a browser. Then they can almost do whatever they want, as long as they let us geeks write tools -- on our own dime, in our own free time, requiring the use of their service so they can charge stuff -- that will inevitably be better than whatever they actually pay for* from the point of view of me, the consumer. --- * Someone's going to yell at me about the poor writers and designers needing some sort of CMS. Yes, yes they do. But I want a DDI I can use. Them getting data into it is their problem ;) [/QUOTE]
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