I've been wanting an on-line campaign manager for my games for a long time, both as a player and as a GM. It's possible that the 4th ed. tools that are coming out will cover this for D&D, but I consider it unlikely that they'll do all I want them to.
Griffon has been (hesitantly) espousing PCGen for this purpose for some time, and the tool has many excellent features, including a fairly comprehensive Arcana Evolved data set. However, it is not web enabled, and thus cannot be run from a web server on laptops and smart phones. In addition, it handles custom data quite poorly. Also, the design team is quite flaky and unwilling to consider user input.
Examing PCGen got me to thinking about what I really want in such a tool and whether I need to program it myself, or if there is a ready made tool out there that meets my needs. I started this thread both to solicit feedback on what tools you folks have used or heard of, as well as to discuss desired and must have features. My initial list:
Needs to be:
