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<blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 5314821" data-attributes="member: 19998">You're selling E-Tools short. It was imperfect at first, but the Code Monkey Publishing had that thing doing backflips fairly quickly. You had rules customization built it, with more flexibility as a free add-on (E-Toolls helper). I once made a &quot;Call of Chulhu d20&quot; rules set. E-Tools supported both 3e and 3.5, it also had treasure generation, random table creation/rolling, new PC race creation,&nbsp; and all the rule books in it's online help. You could even create base and prestige classes in it. Buy the end, you could customize it pretty heavily. You didn't mention it, but do you remember TSR's Forgotten Realms interactive Atlas? Wizards put out one for Eberron via Code Monkey.Also haven't there been D&amp;D video games since Wizard's took over? Neverwinter Nights springs to mind.That said, E-Tools took far to long to be awesome, and 4e simply hasn't delivered the flexibility E-Tools once had, or the flexibility CR 2.0 had. I think there are several reasons.1. Choice of partner. They've consistently teamed-up with partners who couldn't deliver. 2. They don't want their computer programs to look like regular window's programs. The user interfaces on those programs don't write themselves. Maybe .NET makes it easy to create ridiculously styled UIs, but to me it often seems like style over substance.3. In order to write a good computer program, you need to know what the rules are. If Wizards wanted a good program at launch, they'd have to delay the product while the programers used the finished, but unreleased, product to design the programs. This takes time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fanboy2000, post: 5314821, member: 19998"] You're selling E-Tools short. It was imperfect at first, but the Code Monkey Publishing had that thing doing backflips fairly quickly. You had rules customization built it, with more flexibility as a free add-on (E-Toolls helper). I once made a "Call of Chulhu d20" rules set. E-Tools supported both 3e and 3.5, it also had treasure generation, random table creation/rolling, new PC race creation, and all the rule books in it's online help. You could even create base and prestige classes in it. Buy the end, you could customize it pretty heavily. You didn't mention it, but do you remember TSR's Forgotten Realms interactive Atlas? Wizards put out one for Eberron via Code Monkey. Also haven't there been D&D video games since Wizard's took over? Neverwinter Nights springs to mind. That said, E-Tools took far to long to be awesome, and 4e simply hasn't delivered the flexibility E-Tools once had, or the flexibility CR 2.0 had. I think there are several reasons. 1. Choice of partner. They've consistently teamed-up with partners who couldn't deliver. 2. They don't want their computer programs to look like regular window's programs. The user interfaces on those programs don't write themselves. Maybe .NET makes it easy to create ridiculously styled UIs, but to me it often seems like style over substance. 3. In order to write a good computer program, you need to know what the rules are. If Wizards wanted a good program at launch, they'd have to delay the product while the programers used the finished, but unreleased, product to design the programs. This takes time. [/QUOTE]

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