Then you should check out (ie, join and contribute to <g>) the d20-xml
egroup. It's a great group of people who are working toward that very goal.
We could always use more help and input. :-) It's an open project looking
to establish exactly the sort of xml d20 data format standard that you
describe. When you join, make sure you check out the files section to see
what we've done so far. There should also be a FAQ in there as well as some
detail about the spec as it currently exists.
Hope to see you in there. :-)
-Tom Caudron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Skibinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ideally, I was hoping, as D20 is growing it will come to state where there
is a community-shared pool of OGC data stored in open XML-based formats.
Various software developers may provide different interfaces/applications to
process or display that data sharing same formats and open interfaces. For
example you can get NPC & NPC Treasure generator from vendor A, then plug-in
NPC Treasure generator from vendor B. Vendor A NPC will appear with Vendor B
treasures, which could be loaded by handheld software from Vendor C to help
during the playtime, or displayed on the PC using software from vendor D,
etc... This could lead to very interesting development in computer-assisted
table RPG, where every DM basically can configure his own RPG-system using
various available computer OGC resources / modules without committing to
formats and proprietary decisions from a single software vendor...
