Quote from: mhensleyOh yeah this would work.  :rolleyes:

Most of the players in my group are too cheap to buy a frigging rulebook, much less afford this kind of stuff.

Eh...

One man's dream is another man's freedom fighter...or something like that...

Dare to "dream" as the OP requested.

And what if you could make the DCA such that you could sell it for $14.99? And it could handle characters from several different rule systems? Or give the DCA away cheap, $3.99, and sell the software chunks to handle different rules systems separately.

My lord, I bought a couple of Tamagochi-thingies for my kids when they were sick and shut in the house for more than a week...and they are still playing with those things going through generation after generation of little "pets." All for ten bucks or so. That's not counting the free website the kids spend time on getting prizes for their pets and building up points for an audience with "the king."

Times, they are a-changin'

Quote from: HinterWeltJames,
Not nearly so impressive but have you looked at the CHARGen. Web based, renders character sheets to PDF on the fly, stores them on our servers, helps you update after you get XP. I hope to add more GM tools like Foe Generators, Ship Generators, and possibly a combat simulator.

All done through the browser and only requiring Acrobat Reader should you want a PDF.

Bill

Bill,

you know how many times I've meant to look at that? Of course you don't - stupid question.  Suffice it to say it's one of my to-do's for my gaming time.

And this is how big elaborate systems like I'm dreaming up get built - one section at a time.

Curious - do you write this stuff or are you hiring it out.  If you write it, my ego is going to take another hit (after the successful gaming store information) and I'm going to go pout in a corner for 7.2 minutes.

Quote from: James J SkachBill,

you know how many times I've meant to look at that? Of course you don't - stupid question.  Suffice it to say it's one of my to-do's for my gaming time.

And this is how big elaborate systems like I'm dreaming up get built - one section at a time.

Curious - do you write this stuff or are you hiring it out.  If you write it, my ego is going to take another hit (after the successful gaming store information) and I'm going to go pout in a corner for 7.2 minutes.

Sorry dude, I write it using Java. One of my talents is a high end data management TA and programmer. Strangely, I find Java to be a relaxing language to program in. Originally, I wrote drivers for communications software. I am such a geek.

Bill

Quote from: HinterWeltSorry dude, I write it using Java. One of my talents is a high end data management TA and programmer. Strangely, I find Java to be a relaxing language to program in. Originally, I wrote drivers for communications software. I am such a geek.

Bill

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