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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3467789" data-attributes="member: 28553">Oh, man.  The sky is clearly falling, for some folks.  You'd think the posters on an RPG-related Internet forum wouldn't be so opposed to the idea of RPG-related services and information on the Internet.As for what I want out of this deal--what I'd be willing to pay for, more importantly--is damn good (I mean slick, Google-quality) character-generation tools with good storage and output options, and some very serious support for third-party content and house rules.  If I can't use it my way, I won't really be interested in using it at all.I'd also really like a good, searchable database (or at least d20SRD.org-style interlinked documents) full of all of WotC's published, D&D v.3.5 mechanics.  Feats, classes, spells, monsters, etc.  If they've got to limit crunch access to people who actually own the appropriate books (somehow), that's fine.  I'd also really like this to be house rule-friendly, allowing us to make edits or attach notes to own own versions of the data.And, of course, I want content.  I could honestly deal without fluff and setting-specific stuff, but that's just me.  As long as there's a Dragon Magazine-sized load of crunch available each month, I'll be cool.  Even just the Class Acts section would be good.  (And, obviously, this new crunch would have to be integrated into the existing database.)I'd also dig a way to choose a bunch of material--approved classes, races, feats, and variant rules, for example--and export them in a format that I can give to players.  It doesn't have to be the whole body of copyright-protected material; I think feats table-style one-line descriptions would be okay.  I just need to be able to put together a basic campaign bible in the form of a bunch of lists (although pictures would be nice, too, I suppose).I can't really see myself paying more than $5 a month for even a best-case scenario, here, but that's mostly just because I don't play enough to justify it.  If I had a more regular D&D game or two going on, I could probably go up to $10.Ha.  Nice.</blockquote>

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