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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9208039" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I support the idea of 3PP being easily added to DDB and we already see some movement in that direction with the addition of Darrington Press source material.&nbsp; I suspect there's a lot of technical debt here though, it sounds like the management behind DDB cared more about speed to market than building a flexible system.Take a look at the options to create custom monsters.&nbsp; Most of it is just based on a text parser that uses a specific custom format.&nbsp; It sort of works as long as you adhere to their finicky parsing rules and standard layout, but try to get too out of the box and it ends up just being text with no mechanical implementation.I assume that a lot of investment right now is in making the platform more flexible to support the 2024 edition changes but it's easy to say &quot;Just add a button to import&quot;, it's a lot harder to make that button work.&nbsp; Especially if you're changing core game logic.In my ideal world?&nbsp; Anyone interested in adding to DDB could do so at a minimal cost.&nbsp; There would be options for people to review these options along with tags for the type of content so I could easily add it in.&nbsp; It would be easy for publishers to add new monsters, classes, rule options. But we don't live in an ideal world and never will. I just don't see the DM or players saying &quot;official books only&quot; as being anything new.&nbsp; Whether or not the DDB developers could justify the cost of the changes required to have that import option is something we simply don't know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9208039, member: 6801845"] I support the idea of 3PP being easily added to DDB and we already see some movement in that direction with the addition of Darrington Press source material. I suspect there's a lot of technical debt here though, it sounds like the management behind DDB cared more about speed to market than building a flexible system. Take a look at the options to create custom monsters. Most of it is just based on a text parser that uses a specific custom format. It sort of works as long as you adhere to their finicky parsing rules and standard layout, but try to get too out of the box and it ends up just being text with no mechanical implementation. I assume that a lot of investment right now is in making the platform more flexible to support the 2024 edition changes but it's easy to say "Just add a button to import", it's a lot harder to make that button work. Especially if you're changing core game logic. In my ideal world? Anyone interested in adding to DDB could do so at a minimal cost. There would be options for people to review these options along with tags for the type of content so I could easily add it in. It would be easy for publishers to add new monsters, classes, rule options. But we don't live in an ideal world and never will. I just don't see the DM or players saying "official books only" as being anything new. Whether or not the DDB developers could justify the cost of the changes required to have that import option is something we simply don't know. [/QUOTE]

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