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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3288116" data-attributes="member: 28553">I think you've got it, here.  Remember how 2nd Ed. tried to give us a way to combine all our purchased monster sourcebooks with that whole 3-ring binder thing (and screwed it up by printing two monsters on the same page and ruining any attempts to alphabetize it all)?  I'd like to see WotC give us a way to do that (and do it right) with all the monsters, races, classes, feats, spells, and whatever else we buy from them.Maybe each book could come with a serial number or something that would give your account access to corresponding sections of a giant D&D encyclopedia site.  So I buy the PHB, and the "base classes" section of the encyclopedia just has the usual Barbarian-through-Wizard list.  But if I buy Complete Arcane, and enter the code that comes with it, now it also includes the Warlock, Warmage, and Wu Jen, all nicely alphabetized and in the same format.  And the big class skills grid includes the new classes, too.  And the spell section updates appropriately, so that the entry for Magic Missile now mentions that Warmages can cast it, too.  And so on.Obviously, the whole thing will update dynamically with errata and such.  Maybe there could even be support for including material from third-party developers.  And if you want to make changes, or add notes or houserules, you can edit the whole thing wiki-style . . . except that they're only visible in your version of the site.Maybe it could even have some kind of campaign bible feature, where you indicate which materials you want to use for a specific game--picking and choosing races, prestige classes, house rules, etc. as you please--with a simple checklist interface, and the site will produce a mini-encyclopedia that you can give your players access to . . . only they don't get the full versions of the rules, just the summary-level info, unless of course they also own the revelvant sourcebooks.Admittedly, a system like this is incredibly unlikely to happen simply because it would make piracy as simple as Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V (unless they did something extraordinarily annoying, like making it Flash-based), but I kinda feel like this general direction is inevitable.  Give people a way to organize all the stuff they buy.  Put the computers we already own to work, without actually requiring any hardware to play the game.  A lot of us are already using wikis for our own games.  It can't be a bad idea to tap into that movement and ride with it.</blockquote>

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