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Originally Posted by wmervine4
The need for this sort of thing with the rise of digital play, I think, makes a good argument for having an official way to customize the wealth of available options for deployment to players and as a reference for GMs. As a Product Manager in my day job, I can envision some software solutions for problems like this. Of course, the trick is official approval, finding people to do the work, and doing it in a way people are willing to pay for.
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The problem is that there are a lot of rulebooks and other things. So doing it so that people could use the rules they wanted and yet not give out things they have not bought and not forcing everyone to buy everything again at full price would require something like:
Have a program that allows the browsing, a good possible solution would be to integrate it with CGA as the basic trait names and such are there.
That program would have the trait lists like CGA, but allow making a "pick list" where the GM marks what traits are available and for bonus points it would also allow grouping them and adding explanation texts. The GM could then export that list and players import.
Step two would be the actual descriptions. Best way would be for the actual traits be online that you could download from inside the program by either buying them.
For it to be popular it should really be so that if you have a linked warehouse 23 account with digital copies of that book/magazine, you would only need to pay a small sum and not the full price. Like the Ultra tech weapon tables costing $2.99 today.
Of course the real problem is that creating something like that requires a lot of work both in creating the program, the website links and the actual content.
While creating the content is mostly low skill copy/paste job that you could get done for minimum wage, the rest is not. So finding enough people willing to pay for the result for it to be worthwhile is not likely.