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<blockquote data-quote="mattcolville" data-source="post: 4059324" data-attributes="member: 1300">What I want, and I know I'm not alone in this, is an online character generator and editor that will let me build legal characters using all the rules in the books and supplements.I want my players to be able to make their characters online, update them after adventures, and access them anywhere they have internet. I want to be able to publish my NPCs to the GM community online, and download other GM's cool stuff. If I spend 20 minutes making a unique BugBear chieftain who's specialized in Whip, then no one else has to. They can just download mine.They key to this, though, is data validation. It's no good using these tools if I still have to do all the work figuring out what's legal. I want the software to know the rules.I'm afraid I'm going to get essentially a form-fillable PDF. In other words, I can enter my character's stats online, but the program will not tell me if it's legal. I could put &quot;G&quot; in for Strength, for instance. One comment from WotC about the virtual game table was that you could move your guy around on the map, but it was up to you and the players to make sure the move was legal. The table wouldn't stop you at 6 squares if your movement was 30 feet.That makes me afraid the character editor will do the same thing. Does anyone have any info on the details of this thing? Am I right to be concerned?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mattcolville, post: 4059324, member: 1300"] What I want, and I know I'm not alone in this, is an online character generator and editor that will let me build legal characters using all the rules in the books and supplements. I want my players to be able to make their characters online, update them after adventures, and access them anywhere they have internet. I want to be able to publish my NPCs to the GM community online, and download other GM's cool stuff. If I spend 20 minutes making a unique BugBear chieftain who's specialized in Whip, then no one else has to. They can just download mine. They key to this, though, is data validation. It's no good using these tools if I still have to do all the work figuring out what's legal. I want the software to know the rules. I'm afraid I'm going to get essentially a form-fillable PDF. In other words, I can enter my character's stats online, but the program will not tell me if it's legal. I could put "G" in for Strength, for instance. One comment from WotC about the virtual game table was that you could move your guy around on the map, but it was up to you and the players to make sure the move was legal. The table wouldn't stop you at 6 squares if your movement was 30 feet. That makes me afraid the character editor will do the same thing. Does anyone have any info on the details of this thing? Am I right to be concerned? [/QUOTE]

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