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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheYeti1775" data-source="post: 3398236" data-attributes="member: 20914">But then again you have to think of 'shutins', people that have no physical contact with the outside world but what is absolutly necessary to surival.  Or how about that guy that has a SatLink internet connection in the Outback of Austrailia / or the Wilderness of Alaska.  So having 'friends' that are internet only is does qualify.O and for splitting the work, with the Spell Comp it could be done easily.  As splitting it by ABC's, each person creates their own dataset for it.  SCAs / SCBs / SCCs / etc. Just be more datasets to load, but you get the picture. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Personnally I would love the idea someone else suggested of WOTC allowing the purchase of raw data in a set format.  Let the third parties scramble for the money past that.  Then the only thing WOTC would be spending their money on is a datamonkey for each new release.  It would be on the Third Parties (PCGen / Herolab / RPGXplorer / etc) to make their programs use that data.  WOTC could sell it direct to the consumer or through several licensed groups.  If they did it direct they would have to worry about the DRM of it, but licensing to the vendors of a ETool / PCGen / etc would leave them to worry about protecting the data.Personally I would prefer WOTC selling direct to consumers and then let me buy all the CG's seperately using whatever one I prefered at the time.  Cause ya know each will have their own fan base and user inputs to them.Just my 2 coppers.</blockquote>

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