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Message: <blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7710879" data-attributes="member: 6796566">There are two areas where I would find this useful, as someone who already uses Fantasy Grounds as a VTT.First, I would enjoy a character creator/manager with a slick UI and the option to seamlessly integrate the Unearthed Arcana options. Yes, FG has a character creator, but it has its limitations, including the inability to undo your changes without going in and manually changing everything the automated tools just did, which offers a lot of opportunity to screw something up (speaking from experience.) Yes, the ForgedAnvil character tool is awesome and free, but it doesn't accommodate Unearthed Arcana options or gracefully incorporate homebrewed content. There is definitely a niche yet to be filled for a user friendly, feature rich character creation and management tool. That said, if it won't export characters in a format (xml) that Fantasy Grounds can import, the tool will be of limited utility for me personally. I get very annoyed when digital tools do not work together.The second and more exciting possibility for me as a DM would be a monster/npc generator. I want to be able to drag and drop weapons, armor, traits, and spells and have the tool auto-calculate a reasonably accurate challenge rating. I know that's a heavy lift, but this is the one area where there is (to the best of my knowledge) no existing tool that comes close.That said, I have some very real skepticism about the pricing model. I get that there is no real way to check for someone's purchase of the hardcover books, but that does not apply to the purchase of content from the Fantasy Grounds store, or from Steam, or from Roll 20. I think WotC has an ethical obligation to unlock within D&DB whatever content we've already purchased on another digital platform. They have, so far, been entirely too eager to encourage us to buy their products several times over. I get that they're motivated by profit like any other company, but the simple truth is that the only thing protecting their intellectual property is the good will of their customers. All of their products are easily obtained for free, so the phenomenal success of this edition is the direct result of our desire to pay them for the product and the guilt we would feel over ripping them off. In other words, they depend very heavily on the good will of their customer base. I hope that they do the right thing and maintain that good will, because I personally want to see them continue to enjoy great success and fund development of products for this edition of D&D.</blockquote>

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