lonewolfdevel
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Forget publishers, it would be nice if the product let the end users do this.
I've e-mailed WotC about every other month asking that they improve the customizable elements to make Custom Races, Classes, and Deities act in the same manner as the official ones
This includes but is not limited to: displaying attack and damage based on weapon or impliment on appropriate power cards, having power cards for custom classes seperated by class and level (including having custom power cards show range, action type, etc.), class features displayed in the proper area on the character sheet and having a power card when appropriate, custom class automatically granting proficiency in certain armors and weapons, automatic calculation of hit points for custom classes, custom race's inherit bonuses to abilities and defenses automatically added (including special visions and resistances), divine feats based on domain appearing on list if custom deity has that domain, being able to define prerequisites for custom feats, and having the option of showing 'custom content' without showing all 'illegal elements'.
So far no changes or progress toward any changes have been made (at least that I can tell), perhaps if more users expressed an interest in customizable content it might become a higher priority.
Providing this capability entails a great deal of work and an underlying software architecture that supports it. This was a primary objective from the start when we developed Hero Lab and represents the lion's share of both the architectural complexity and the development time we invest into the product on an ongoing basis. If this capability wasn't one of the original objectives of the 4E design team, and I'm guessing it wasn't because of the short development timeframe they had to work within, adding this after the fact would be a huge undertaking.
Fortunately, with 4E, this is a more tractable task than for certain other RPGs (e.g. 3.5 or Pathfinder). So we can all hope they get this added at some point. But I wouldn't put money on seeing it anytime soon.
