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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6256330" data-attributes="member: 1465">A character builder has a much larger customer base, but IMHO is less needed. As a player, I never had any trouble creating and levelling-up characters even in 3e, simply because for me it doesn't happen that often. The problem might be significant however for those who often restart their campaign, or quit and join new games all the time, and typically start playing at mid/high-level already.OTOH, as a DM I would certainly appreciate such character builder for NPCs and classed monsters. Now that is something that the DM (who uses those types of adversaries) has to do very often, usually multiple times per session. Such "expanded" character builder would need to include monsters as races, the possibility to stack class levels on top of them, apply templates etc. I would buy such product, if it did the XP and CR (or whatever) calculations reliably, so that I would be able to quickly check how strong the results are, and finally print the monsters stats.An adventure builder IMO should include that (basically to design encounters), but then it goes beyond that, and includes mapping tools and perhaps some campaign management tools. It would certainly come handy, although for me this is not the stuff I really need a program do for me.Actually, all in all I think the mapping tools would probably be the hardest ones to design. IIRC there are mapping software programs around, and they might be huge... not sure if WotC has room to compete with them.OTOH an NPC/monster builder (i.e. same as PC builder but with monsters data) should be pretty easy to design, any software programmer can do something like that. In fact my guess is that a lot of people have already developed their own apps, except they cannot share them.</blockquote>

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