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<blockquote data-quote="tmaaas" data-source="post: 1544190" data-attributes="member: 6481">I believe that's what its original purpose was. However, the tortureous road from chargen to etools was anything but straight.Remember that the Fluid programmers had the deck stacked against them. Changes in management, changes in direction, continually changing requirements (I'm a programmer by trade, and this is all a recipe for disaster).I'm almost positive they scrapped all the work from chargen early on, spent way too much time working on a 3d mapper which was also scrapped (at WotC direction), and only at the end kicked out what became etools.Etools could be a study in mismanagment of a project...Back to the point I was trying to make: 1) chargen and etools really have little in common. 2) chargen was not a &quot;demo&quot; for etools in the same sense that the Dundjinni demo out now is a demo for the final version. Chargen was more of a &quot;proof of concept&quot; creation which had no other connection to the final work, while the Dundjinni demo is an actual &quot;beta&quot; version of the final product. It should be a far more reliable indicator.At least I hope I'm right... I preordered the Platinum version&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="tmaaas, post: 1544190, member: 6481"] I believe that's what its original purpose was. However, the tortureous road from chargen to etools was anything but straight. Remember that the Fluid programmers had the deck stacked against them. Changes in management, changes in direction, continually changing requirements (I'm a programmer by trade, and this is all a recipe for disaster). I'm almost positive they scrapped all the work from chargen early on, spent way too much time working on a 3d mapper which was also scrapped (at WotC direction), and only at the end kicked out what became etools. Etools could be a study in mismanagment of a project... Back to the point I was trying to make: 1) chargen and etools really have little in common. 2) chargen was not a "demo" for etools in the same sense that the Dundjinni demo out now is a demo for the final version. Chargen was more of a "proof of concept" creation which had no other connection to the final work, while the Dundjinni demo is an actual "beta" version of the final product. It should be a far more reliable indicator. At least I hope I'm right... I preordered the Platinum version :eek: [/QUOTE]

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