E-Tools

e-Tools: Character and Monster Generator is a software application developed by Fluid Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast (WotC). The software contains many different tools designed to assist with hosting and playing Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, though it can be altered to work with most games that use the d20 System.

History
e-Tools was originally named Master Tools and was first seen as a free demo with the Player's Handbook. Many changes were made during development cycle, and the project was eventually renamed to "eTools: Character and Monster Generator".

The full-version released in 2002 at Gen Con. At first, the software was rather limited and did not have the versitility demanded by many Dungeon Masters. WotC quickly moved to address many concerns and released a large patch three months after the initial release. Many players were still dissatisfied and several add-on programs, such as Davin's ET Helper were created to allow the insertion of custom content.

WotC then contracted Code Monkey Publishing, handing them control of future e-Tools development and granted them a liscense to distribute all published WotC content for use with the program as well as PCGen.