Just chiming in out of curiosity. How would a fan-made FS3 character builder/generator work in regard to licensing or copyright?
I guess many players wouldn't only want to be able to select some rules elements, but also get a matching description right at the same place. So that they can build the character completely without having to hit the book. Which obviously was perhaps not quite what Redbrick wanted, especially when the builder/generator was a fan project and didn't net them any income at all.
However nice a fan-made/oss character builder may be, wouldn't it introduce the problem that you basically could only use the names but not the descriptions/stats of skills, items, special abilities, whatever? A character builder would be a really awesome tool, especially to help new players which often feel a bit intimidated by rulebooks, even more so when they are new to the hobby.
But if the builder could answer the question
"okay, and what does thingy X do?" only with
"see rulebook Y page Z" it wouldn't be that much of a help, since you would still need to browse through the book and need to constantly switch between the digital builder and the dead-tree books.
I guess there isn't a way to have a fully functional character builder including descriptions and stats for all rules elements without RedBrick getting the digital license and contracting some company like Lone Wolf (Hero Lab) to make one, is there?