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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 2860440" data-attributes="member: 5100">Very cool.  When I gave creating a character gen tool a shot a couple years ago (before I realized I had nowhere near enough time), one thing that I noticed is that the d20 rules actually work fairly well in an OO paradigm.  Two observations, in particular, are probably worth mentioning*.1) A character may be better represented as a collection of Level objects than as a collection of Class objects.  Think about how multiclassing works.  You will be taking the next numbered level for sure, but you could drop any class into that level.2) A huge number of ability types, from class abilities to feats to divine salient abilities, are pretty much the same sort of building block.  PCGen kinda handles this by calling everything a "feat", but I think it could be a cornerstone of an extensible campaign engine.* -- These may not be groundbreaking by any means.  I thought they were interesting observations when I first made them, but I have no ego at stake with them.  If you think I'm completely daft and go on to make a great tool, I'll still use it.  If the idea sparks something, then I'm happy to have helped. All I can say is: Excellent.  If you can do what PCGen does, import my LST files, and give me a better interface for tweaking, I'm sold already.Oh, yeah.  Iron Heroes.  Those skill groups are going to be tricky.  I hope you can get it to work, because I'm seriously thinking about adopting that idea for D&D.Was it you I promised some code snippets to?  I know I did for someone, but then ended up getting really, really busy (seems like it was when I did a stint of 16 hr days at work).</blockquote>

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