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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5785360" data-attributes="member: 83822">Hi Hussar,Good question. However, I think in reality it won't be a problem for Wizards.During 3E, there was eTools (the Wizards never-finished character generator) and PCGen (a third party character generator with the SRD and more). But PCGen was slow, at least on my computer. So we ended up using the crippled, demo version of eTools (with less than just SRD content) over PCGen.If Wizards puts out a fast, well-programmed character generator, it could easily blow its competitors out of the water. People that don't want a subscription can continue with third party products, but I doubt they'd ever be as user friendly as the Wizards offering.Wizards can also make use of its other assets. For example, giving access to character portraits from official D&D art. Allowing characters created in its generator to interact seamlessly on the electronic gaming table. And content from new products could be available instantly on the Wizards generator, whereas it would take some time for them to be added to third party generators.And I think the other part of the equation is encouraging third party publishers to participate in the Wizards generator.</blockquote>