Players able to modify character sheet.

I think it would be a good idea to give the DM the option to let players modify thier own character sheets for characters that are assigned to them.

When a pile of money is awarded to a party or a few copper spent the judge shouldn't have to update the character sheet of every person in the party. This would use the honor system to ensure that players didn't add extra stuff similar to how the pen-n-paper version works; the gear and abilities on a character sheet are all handled by the player. This would also allow the game to continue sooner when the party needs to level up.

Of course, the Judge should have the option to assign and revoke the priveledge. A Judge could opt to only give the party the ability to level up thier characters and then lock them afterwards.

 

I only come back here to check on this one thing. I couldn't care less about any of your other updates as long as players still can't update their character sheets.

Whenever I tell anyone about D20 pro, this one thing is literally the second thing I tell them, right after "D20Pro is cool BUT..."

I don't use D20Pro any more because this one thing has gotten so annoying. But you probably don't care; you already have my money.

 

When my brother and I attempted to use this program we both had a judge licence. He could edit his character sheet with his own judge licence and then send it to me but he could not edit his own character sheet in my campaign while connected to my judge licence as a player even if he had a judge licence.

If I were wanting him to keep track of something like how many arrows were in his quiveror or healing potions left in the sack so that I could tune the remaining encounter to match that for story purposes then I'd either need to ask him for a new version of his character sheet or ask him directly. Asking him to send me an updated version of the character sheet every few minutes is a huge hassle. Asking him about his resources may give away my plans. I could personally keep track of every single arrow fired, and potion quaffed, but that really shouldn't be the job of the DM.

Also, the player may want to keep track of how many rations or arrows or whatever that their character has left and the DM may not care in the slightest. The player would have to either write the numbers all down somewhere else (completely defeating the purpose of even having a character sheet that tracks inventory) or bug the DM to make the updates after every shot.

With the announcement of the new version of D20 Pro, this specific feature was the ONLY thing I looked for. I trust that they can do everything else well enough. The only mention I found of it was at the $90,000 level. I guess I'll have to check back and make a pledge if it gets close to that.