What happened to E-Tools? Future Products?

[Murrdox]

Well, I recently got back into D&D after a very very long break.

When I did, it was time to dust off good old E-Tools and reinstall it. One problem though, I was missing some datasets! Well, I took a trip to Code Monkey Publishing... only to discover...

They lost the license for WotC? E-Tools is effectively "dead"?

What the...?

Well, a bittorrent search a few minutes later yielded me all the datasets that I could possibly use, which I don't feel bad about now, because I can't legitimately purchase them from Code Monkey.

However, what does this mean for the future? Has Wizards of the Coast indicated that they intend on coming out with their own, internally developed, electronic DM's software?

I know that there's a lot of DM and Player software out there right now. E-Tools was the one that best fit my needs. It was still kinda clunky, but it was the best thing that I'd tried. I'm kinda looking forward to see if Wizards can come up with something better.

Are they? I can only assume that they took the license away from Code Monkey so that they could either work on it themselves, or give it to someone else.

Sorry but I can't for the life of me figure out how to run a search on the forums... I figure someone must have posted about this sometime ago...

 

[amethal]

Well, I recently got back into D&D after a very very long break.

When I did, it was time to dust off good old E-Tools and reinstall it. One problem though, I was missing some datasets! Well, I took a trip to Code Monkey Publishing... only to discover...

They lost the license for WotC? E-Tools is effectively "dead"?

What the...?

Well, a bittorrent search a few minutes later yielded me all the datasets that I could possibly use, which I don't feel bad about now, because I can't legitimately purchase them from Code Monkey.

However, what does this mean for the future? Has Wizards of the Coast indicated that they intend on coming out with their own, internally developed, electronic DM's software?

I know that there's a lot of DM and Player software out there right now. E-Tools was the one that best fit my needs. It was still kinda clunky, but it was the best thing that I'd tried. I'm kinda looking forward to see if Wizards can come up with something better.

Are they? I can only assume that they took the license away from Code Monkey so that they could either work on it themselves, or give it to someone else.

Sorry but I can't for the life of me figure out how to run a search on the forums... I figure someone must have posted about this sometime ago...

This is a pretty good thread (and links to another one).

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=190152

To use search you have to pay for a community supporter account. Its a good way to support the site, and I think they have a sale on at the moment.

 

[Henry]

I'll go ahead and move this into the correct forum.

You pretty much have the story - WotC has plans (through some sort of "D&D Insider" subscription" idea, the rumor has it) to come up with an electronic tool for character creation and DM prep. At this point, it's still all rumor and speculation, with nothing announced.

 

[Murrdox]

Thanks Henry and and amethal.

I'll have to look into getting a subscription. I've been coming here for ages. This is one of the few websites I can forget about for awhile, and then come back to later... and discover that it's still the same old "Enworld" that I know and love

I'd probably be traumatized if Hypersmurf vanished though.