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<blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 2393985" data-attributes="member: 2810">Because that's the sort of thing that demands to be an electronic product, so it can't be done without WotC's blessing, can it?&nbsp; As a paper product, I wouldn't find it terribly useful, but give it to me in database form and I'd snap it up.&nbsp; Plus (and I believe this point was touched on earlier in the other thread), just the monsters in the SRD isn't going to cut it.&nbsp; You've got the SRD, the stuff thats in the MM thats not in the SRD, MMII and III, 3rd party monster books, etc.&nbsp; &nbsp;You see a ton of questions on 'How much should this cost...' around here, so there are some that might find that useful.&nbsp; It would have to be vetted a lot better than the item creation rules in the DMG though, otherwise you compound the problem.&nbsp; Plus, it would just encourage the (unfortunate, I think) magic shop phenomena.You want to give the DMs some useful toolkits, let slip the programmers of war and give us good electronic tools.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's just stupid that in this day and age, I've got to comb through a half-dozen books and stat things long-hand when a decent computer program and the requisite data sets could do it better, faster and lighter.&nbsp; Stop thinking about electronic products as an additional way to extract money from the customer and start thinking of them as an integral part of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rodrigo Istalindir, post: 2393985, member: 2810"] Because that's the sort of thing that demands to be an electronic product, so it can't be done without WotC's blessing, can it? As a paper product, I wouldn't find it terribly useful, but give it to me in database form and I'd snap it up. Plus (and I believe this point was touched on earlier in the other thread), just the monsters in the SRD isn't going to cut it. You've got the SRD, the stuff thats in the MM thats not in the SRD, MMII and III, 3rd party monster books, etc. You see a ton of questions on 'How much should this cost...' around here, so there are some that might find that useful. It would have to be vetted a lot better than the item creation rules in the DMG though, otherwise you compound the problem. Plus, it would just encourage the (unfortunate, I think) magic shop phenomena. You want to give the DMs some useful toolkits, let slip the programmers of war and give us good electronic tools. It's just stupid that in this day and age, I've got to comb through a half-dozen books and stat things long-hand when a decent computer program and the requisite data sets could do it better, faster and lighter. Stop thinking about electronic products as an additional way to extract money from the customer and start thinking of them as an integral part of the game. [/QUOTE]

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