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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6864045" data-attributes="member: 37579">Those already exit:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?categoryid=23" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?categoryid=23</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2b6kxu/just_made_an_excel_character_sheet_for_5e_xpost/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2b6kxu/just_made_an_excel_character_sheet_for_5e_xpost/</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2fez0f/5e_character_sheet_using_excel/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2fez0f/5e_character_sheet_using_excel/</a>Why does WotC need to provide one? What will slapping the official logo provide that hours of fan support cannot?(Of course, they already have a form fillable digital character sheet.)True, WotC is not. They're huge. The D&D team at WotC is small. Digital tools aren't possible, not without doubling the size of the staff. Or licencing the tools out. Which they tried to do but failed. The D&D RPG team continues to exist so long as they make more money than they lose and continue to pump out IP that might be turned into movies and other money makers. But WotC is not going to give the team much more staff or money. Paizo is probably in a better place to make digital tools since they can leverage the entire company to the task (and even they've failed at that, since the Pathfinder Virtual Table has been quietly killed).They didn't choose not to. They licensed the rights, planning on having tools out shortly after launch, and the licencee company did a crap job. That's on Trapdoor, not WotC. WotC works with the people that approach them; if quality people don't approach them, then there's nothing WotC can do. WotC says their terms, and anyone who wants to sign on the dotted line can. But most companies just don't want to pay the asked fee or do what WotC expects, so we have no tools. Which is why Lone Wolf hasn't managed to get an official licence for HeroLabs. Coming to the deal is tricky (especially since they're likely dealing with WotC suits who give zero f***s about D&D, let alone its fans). They're a business. They're sole reason for existing is to make money. They're not here to make friends. They're not here to make us happy. They're a publicly traded company out to make money for themselves and their shareholders. If a corporation doesn't make money, it opens itself up to being sued by its shareholders. Letting anyone make an app means WotC would be giving away the full text of the PHB (which they declined to do with the SRD) and is giving away any potential licensing fees accrued from possible app makers. That's not going to happen. Not any more than WotC releasing free PDFs of the entire Player's Handbook. But, of course, there ARE digital tools. You can get Fantasy Grounds. And HeroLabs since the SRD was out. One of those is even official. Why does WotC - a company that isn't a software company - required to do this in-house?</blockquote>

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