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<blockquote data-quote="bitz" data-source="post: 318386" data-attributes="member: 6208">MayI quote the user manual of E-Tools... Just to throw fuel to the fire...&quot;For the truly hardcore, you could edit the Access database table to your liking.&nbsp; This would provide you with a layer of customization to your creations that could not be obtained using only the House Editor. To edit the E-Tools database, you would need a copy of Microsoft Access (about $200 bucks), and considerable familiarity with the software.&nbsp; We don’t recommend you do this however.&nbsp; In fact, we strongly advise you against it.If you decide to plunge ahead anyway, just be careful if you decide to toss your version of the database out there to the community at large.&nbsp; If somebody downloads your database and doesn’t back up their old version, they will wipe out all their house creations in the process.&nbsp; Or if they build a new creation with your database and then revert back to their database, chances are their new creations won’t work or report properly ever again.&quot;They're saying, &quot;Yeah! Go ahead and share, just beware!&quot;&quot;Lastly, many tables across the core rulebooks have not been included.&nbsp; We selected and included those tables we felt had the most utility and appeal.&nbsp; Some of the tables we built – like the organization and encounter tables from the MM – aren’t really tables to be found in the MM in the first place.&nbsp; We just thought it was cool to generate a large, concatenated stat block for a tribe of hobgoblins with a couple clicks of the mouse.&nbsp; We hope and expect the community out there to build the rest of the 3E tables- and some cool unique ones we haven’t seen – and share them with the rest of us.So, they at least want custom content for the missing tables.... =)Just mentioning that there is a general positive flow of adding content to the database &amp; files. When fluid releases their Add-On for Forgotten Realms, all of our custom content will have to be thrown out (because of the db changes, most likely), but we'll adapt and use our own 'imperfect' content until then.I will laugh if WotC/Fluid takes our custom content, tweaks it, and releases it as their own. Lol!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bitz, post: 318386, member: 6208"] MayI quote the user manual of E-Tools... Just to throw fuel to the fire... [I]"For the truly hardcore, you could edit the Access database table to your liking. This would provide you with a layer of customization to your creations that could not be obtained using only the House Editor. To edit the E-Tools database, you would need a copy of Microsoft Access (about $200 bucks), and considerable familiarity with the software. We don’t recommend you do this however. In fact, we strongly advise you against it. If you decide to plunge ahead anyway, just be careful if you decide to toss your version of the database out there to the community at large. [B]If somebody downloads your database and doesn’t back up their old version, they will wipe out all their house creations in the process. Or if they build a new creation with your database and then revert back to their database, chances are their new creations won’t work or report properly ever again.[/B]"[/I] They're saying, "Yeah! Go ahead and share, just beware!" [I]"Lastly, many tables across the core rulebooks have not been included. We selected and included those tables we felt had the most utility and appeal. Some of the tables we built – like the organization and encounter tables from the MM – aren’t really tables to be found in the MM in the first place. We just thought it was cool to generate a large, concatenated stat block for a tribe of hobgoblins with a couple clicks of the mouse. [B]We hope and expect the community out there to build the rest of the 3E tables- and some cool unique ones we haven’t seen[/B] – and share them with the rest of us.[/I] So, they at least want custom content for the missing tables.... =) Just mentioning that there is a general positive flow of adding content to the database & files. When fluid releases their Add-On for Forgotten Realms, all of our custom content will have to be thrown out (because of the db changes, most likely), but we'll adapt and use our own 'imperfect' content until then. I will laugh if WotC/Fluid takes our custom content, tweaks it, and releases it as their own. Lol! [/QUOTE]

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