One problem that I often struggle with when I'm writing utilities for BattleTech that I intend to release to the general public is the question of how much intelligence about the rules of the game I should build into it. While I've been around the game industry long enough to have a pretty good sense of what will and will not get me sued, I nonetheless want to respect the wishes of developers, especially Catalyst, whether or not they have legal grounds for those wishes.
For instance, I have no problem creating a master list of Skills and Linked Attributes; that information is fairly easily available online. I'm less inclined to input the whole set of Life Paths into a tool, even to create the much-needed A Time of War Character Creator. I may need to post to the forums to determine what Catalyst is comfortable with accepting in terms of official content in user-created applications.
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