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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razz" data-source="post: 3250954" data-attributes="member: 3014">No I mean more like a program specifically designed for D&D material reference so they can easily double check to see if something they have an idea about hasn't or isn't already being done by another author within the company.For example the database could be used to look through Feats. They can check on naming, prerequisites, and game mechanics of all feats released by them and by Dragon/Dungeon magazine and their Official Website to make sure they don't repeat a feat or make a feat way too similar to another feat.The same would go for monsters, spells, miscellaneous mechanics (like skill uses, possession rules, weather rules, whatever) and others. Case in point, there's a feat out there called Allied Defense in the Forgotten Realms book Shining South. Whenever you use Combat Expertise, your adjacent allies gain the same bonus to their AC. The problem is Complete Warrior has an EPIC feat that does the same thing called Epic Combat Expertise but only to one adjacent ally. To this date, it's still not fixed. And if that particular author was able to look through the Feat database, they would see a feat like Allied Defense was already done.</blockquote>