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<blockquote data-quote="Leopold" data-source="post: 102339" data-attributes="member: 758"><p>IF (and this is a big IF) they bring out an editor to help transfer or input some of the other publishers information and allow you to build characters OUTSIDE of the WOTC sphere of products.</p><p></p><p>I do not see this happening for 3 reasons.</p><p></p><p>1. You would have to get permission from the publisher for this.</p><p></p><p>Now seeing this happen in MT. The publisher could very well just say "For 4.95 you can download the set of information for you and here you go" and forbid anyone else from entering in their PI. Again, unlikely put possible scenario.</p><p></p><p>2. MT must have a good editor to input those files and make it easy if not simple to create objects within access.</p><p></p><p>PCGen uses plain text as mynex said. Now MT can be as simple as opening up MS Access and adding in a few lines to the database. Is that easy? Sure I don't see why not. BUT! You must have a copy of MS Access to do this unlike pcgen which requires a text editor (notepad, wordpad, edit.com, etc.) which is free. Is this a drawback? Could be.</p><p></p><p>3. WOTC could just tell the people "NO, buy it from us for add-ons"</p><p></p><p>They have said this already. We have to 'pay-to-play' with MT. I for one very much disagree with this stance. What better way to get yoru product out than by just giving away a few of the books and later on down the road saying "We told you we will be charging more for this and now we are" stance. I could agree with this policy on a business standpoint. But for each book to cost money just to input and build characters off of? Ridiculous.</p><p></p><p></p><p>All in all I am looking forward to MT and seeing what it comes out with. I hope that it is released and we can see if all this worry, hype, and promises come to a final conclusive end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leopold, post: 102339, member: 758"] IF (and this is a big IF) they bring out an editor to help transfer or input some of the other publishers information and allow you to build characters OUTSIDE of the WOTC sphere of products. I do not see this happening for 3 reasons. 1. You would have to get permission from the publisher for this. Now seeing this happen in MT. The publisher could very well just say "For 4.95 you can download the set of information for you and here you go" and forbid anyone else from entering in their PI. Again, unlikely put possible scenario. 2. MT must have a good editor to input those files and make it easy if not simple to create objects within access. PCGen uses plain text as mynex said. Now MT can be as simple as opening up MS Access and adding in a few lines to the database. Is that easy? Sure I don't see why not. BUT! You must have a copy of MS Access to do this unlike pcgen which requires a text editor (notepad, wordpad, edit.com, etc.) which is free. Is this a drawback? Could be. 3. WOTC could just tell the people "NO, buy it from us for add-ons" They have said this already. We have to 'pay-to-play' with MT. I for one very much disagree with this stance. What better way to get yoru product out than by just giving away a few of the books and later on down the road saying "We told you we will be charging more for this and now we are" stance. I could agree with this policy on a business standpoint. But for each book to cost money just to input and build characters off of? Ridiculous. All in all I am looking forward to MT and seeing what it comes out with. I hope that it is released and we can see if all this worry, hype, and promises come to a final conclusive end. [/QUOTE]
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