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<blockquote data-quote="Jack of Shadows" data-source="post: 4654952" data-attributes="member: 3276">OK,There's a lot of chatter with out a lot of facts. So here are some facts:- Ema is short for Emanuele. Ema's a guy- The Character Manager had a one-time payment for lifetime access.- This payment was to help Ema cover the extra expense of the increased server cost.- Ema was most certainly running at a loss so calling it a business is absurd as it certainly wasn't for profit.- The Character Manager was just form-fillable PDF's not a character generator. It was nowhere near what the DDI Character Creator does for you.- The Character Manager did allow you to print off Power Cards for your 4E character but the descriptions weren't copied wholesale from the core books. They were contractions rewritten for brevity. You usually had to refer to the core rules to understand exactly how they functioned.Some speculation:- It's not the DDI Character Creator that pushed WotC to send the C&amp;D but their upcoming release of Power Card packs. No one's going to buy this product if some one is letting you print them off for a small one time fee.- Personally I think WotC could have avoided a lot bad blood if they'd just offered Ema a contract to design sheets for the DDI Character Creator in exchange for closing down his site. The one critical failure on the Creator for me is the butt-ugly, dysfunctional sheet it generates at the end.JoS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack of Shadows, post: 4654952, member: 3276"] OK, There's a lot of chatter with out a lot of facts. So here are some facts: - Ema is short for Emanuele. Ema's a guy - The Character Manager had a [I]one-time[/I] payment for lifetime access. - This payment was to help Ema cover the extra expense of the increased server cost. - Ema was most certainly running at a loss so calling it a business is absurd as it certainly wasn't for profit. - The Character Manager was just form-fillable PDF's not a character generator. It was nowhere near what the DDI Character Creator does for you. - The Character Manager did allow you to print off Power Cards for your 4E character but the descriptions weren't copied wholesale from the core books. They were contractions rewritten for brevity. You usually had to refer to the core rules to understand exactly how they functioned. Some speculation: - It's not the DDI Character Creator that pushed WotC to send the C&D but their upcoming release of Power Card packs. No one's going to buy this product if some one is letting you print them off for a small one time fee. - Personally I think WotC could have avoided a lot bad blood if they'd just offered Ema a contract to design sheets for the DDI Character Creator in exchange for closing down his site. The one critical failure on the Creator for me is the butt-ugly, dysfunctional sheet it generates at the end. JoS. [/QUOTE]

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