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<blockquote data-quote="mudbunny" data-source="post: 4665720" data-attributes="member: 56746">On the official boards, when one of the DDI devs (I want to say Didier Monin, but may be wrong) mentioned wanting to make a tool that would let you build a dungeon, place the encounters (and automagically pull the stat blocks from the compendium), there was almost a unanimous cry of &quot;ME WANT PLEEZE!!&quot;I honestly don't think that they realized how much people would want not only the tools themselves, but that the combination of the tools would prove to be more desireable than the tools by themselves. And that it is the combination of the tools (and the resulting interface/UI/presentation of results) that will be their big payoff.I mean, imagine this. You have a suite of tools that let you build a dungeon, populate it with monsters (that link to the appropriate stat blocks), and save it as a folder that you can then share with people that all is uploadable into the Game Table.I think that while there are some people at WotC who had this vision, that there were a lot who just couldn't see that far into the future and envision the desired connectivity of the tools.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mudbunny, post: 4665720, member: 56746"] On the official boards, when one of the DDI devs (I want to say Didier Monin, but may be wrong) mentioned wanting to make a tool that would let you build a dungeon, place the encounters (and automagically pull the stat blocks from the compendium), there was almost a unanimous cry of "ME WANT PLEEZE!!" I honestly don't think that they realized how much people would want not only the tools themselves, but that the combination of the tools would prove to be more desireable than the tools by themselves. And that it is the combination of the tools (and the resulting interface/UI/presentation of results) that will be their big payoff. I mean, imagine this. You have a suite of tools that let you build a dungeon, populate it with monsters (that link to the appropriate stat blocks), and save it as a folder that you can then share with people that all is uploadable into the Game Table. I think that while there are some people at WotC who had this vision, that there were a lot who just couldn't see that far into the future and envision the desired connectivity of the tools. [/QUOTE]

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