| Nicodranas |
I hope this is the correct place to post this, if I am wrong, I will try to move it.
I am currently planning to make either a web based tool or a cross platform app for pathfinder 2nd edition.
Its main feature, at least at the beginning, will be a streamlined character creation tool that guides you in the process of creating a new character and its evolution as it gains new levels.
The plan is to make it usable during a game session as a valid alternative to a character sheet:
- - functional spell book
- - money management
- - equipment management
- - health management
- - focus point management
- - familiar and animal companion management
- - skills’ actions and descriptions
- - adding and removing conditions
- - exporting to pdf and converting it in a character sheet
- - possibility to have an account, allowing you to open the same character on multiple different devices
Future
- - Creating a ‘table/group’ with gm and players, the gm can hand out items, access their PC’s character sheets and valuable informations.
- - Custom monster, deities, backgrounds etc
- - place where you can share and download custom creations
- - encounter manager
- - NPCS creation tool
- - item shop manager
- - settlement manager (you can add NPCs and shops as you see fit)
- - custom GM screen (you can personalize a window with your preferred content, either written by you or choosing rules elements).
OGL
The first thing I would like to say is that I would like to keep the core elements free if that is possible, and maintain the website either with ADs (I would prefer to keep it ads free though) or through patreon/donations.
I would kindly appreciate your help in this: I am no expert in regards of legal matter and OGL, I read it but with poor results:
1. If I keep the core elements, as well as rules free, and I maintain the website through either direct donations or/and patreon, am I allowed to use the proper names for things such as the Aldori duelist or Deities?
2. If I later (after having added non core elements, such as the possibility to create a ‘group’) add a subscription method or a pay once method to access non core features, an I allowed to still use setting specific names?
3. To what extent am I allowed to describe monsters and races?
4. Where does a rule end and a flavor text begin?
5. To those of you who are experienced in user account databases, what is cheaper to maintain? A website application or a downloadable one?
Suggestions
This tool will be for all of you, dear storytellers and adventurers, so I greatly appreciate any kind of suggestion, whether it is a feature you would like to have, accessibility, a design you would like, what are the most important information to have on your main page as a GM/player etc, feel free to post your thoughts and suggestions in the comments below, and thank you for your time.
the process will take a while, but I am planning to start the design process in the following weeks.