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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 623425" data-attributes="member: 4">Well that's the thing, we don't know much about the changes.  Little tweaks here and there, if they involve information at the database level and not at the code level in e-Tools, wouldn't be a particularly big impediment.  But we do know they're adding new prestige classes to the DMG and the +1 spellcaster level prestige classes we can't currently create with ET Helper.  Think of it this way, Thalmin -- it's August 2003, a customer walks into your store and picks up the 3.5 rulebooks and grabs a copy of e-Tools.  Aside from the fact that they'll need to patch it, the rules in e-Tools will no longer be the same as those in the core D&D rulebooks.  I see that as a pretty significant problem.  The sunny side of all of this is -- if the changes aren't that significant, it should be easy for WotC to get the existing e-Tools patched and ready for 3.5.  We know they must still be at least thinking about doing more with it -- the current patch is called a 'beta patch' -- so that implies that they're going to try to come up with some way to provide a release version of the patch.  Whether that means mending fences with Fluid or hiring some other computer company to take care of the problems, it wouldn't be (I don't think) too much of a stretch to say, "By the way, would you do another patch to get e-Tools ready for D&D 3.5."</blockquote>