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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fissionessence" data-source="post: 4781290" data-attributes="member: 63357">I don't really use the character builder, despite having a DDI subscription. That's mainly because it doesn't support 'house rules' (read: 3PPs) very well/at all.Scanning over some D&D games starting up, many DMs allow 'anything in the character builder.' Though none spelled it out, I'd expect many who might have otherwise accept third party products would no longer do so because it's not accessible in the character builder!So what effect does this have on third party products? Granted, the phenomenon may not be as widespread as I'm fearing, but nonetheless I think as the character builder grows in success, it will continue to negatively impact DMs' and players' interest in products that they can't use with their character builder of choice.I have suggested this in other threads in the past, but I think there needs to be a fuller support for 'house rules'. Publishers or DMs should be able to create 'house rule packages' that can be put in a 'house rules' folder in the character builder, passed around between players/consumers, etc. Different packages would be able to sit next to each other in the same folder and be used, until they were removed from said folder. This would make it potentially easy for publishers to create a method by which users could use their products and the character builder, and DMs and players alike would have a feature that people have already been asking for (that is, more house rules support).Any feedback or comments? If you represent a third party publisher, do you feel that this has affected you, and would you release 'house rule packages' for your products given the opportunity?~ fissionessence</blockquote>

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