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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 3314537" data-attributes="member: 1457">Exactly, TarionzCousin. Use online tools to make D&D easier, more accessible. Character creation is, frankly, cumbersome and time-consuming. It's work. It takes a solid 1/2 hour to an hour for an experienced player, way more time for a newbie--most new campaigns devote the entire first session to character creation. Give players the option of online character generation. All the rules are instantly accessible (and searchable!), and up-to-date with the latest errata. Instead of flipping through a glossary, or leafing through a chapter for the mechanics of "Power Attack", you can right click and pull up a definition. All the stats and attributes auto-calculate. Your character is stored online so you can update or print out a character sheet from anywhere. Quick, easy, user-friendly.Umberhulk and Hussar, as far as I know there is no online (as in, accessible from the Web) character creation tool/character database/spell book creator that references each other as well as rules from up-to-date D&D books. I've seen some Excel workbooks and of course PCGen, but these products have such poor interface/usability design that they're as user-unfriendly as physical books. We need something with professional design and polish, like what you see in NWN2 or any other decent computer RPG.  OpenRPG is a great first step towards the online battlemap that I talked about, but it doesn't have a player character creator or access a character database. -z</blockquote>

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