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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3464931" data-attributes="member: 28553">Honestly, I've been thinking for a while that they needed to do something like this.Ideally, I'd like them to see online versions of every hardcover they produce . . . which, of course, you only get access to if you buy the actual book.  Then all the books in your account can be collated together so you've got one list of classes, one list of feats, one list of spells, etc.  And it should all be interlinked as conveniently as the information on <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/" target="_blank">d20SRD.org</a>.But, failing that, I sure would love to have online character tools that raised-on-World-of-Warcraft newbs can use to create PCs quickly and easily.  DMs could create databases of NPCs in a unified format, and either print 'em out or take their laptops to the gaming table (hell, don't they do that already?).I can't say this isn't a good point.  I'll be extremely annoyed if these tools are hostile to house rules and third party content.  I'm hoping for a really wiki-like approach where we can each edit our own copies of the rules.  The hackability of d20 is one of the best things it has going for it, right after the giant load of existing modular content.  The WotC's online resources don't support that, they're kinda shooting themselves in the foot.</blockquote>