![]() ![]() ![]() I actually prefer PC Gen (although I use Combat Manager for Initiative tracking, etc.), though in part it's a philosophical thing as I dislike Hero Lab's DRM philosophy and decided I no longer wish to support the product (the license activation in my personal experience is a PITA. That's my personal decision and there are threads you can search for if you wish to see more information about it and arguments on all sides I have no interest in starting an argument about DRM vs. and will not discuss it further here, as past experience shows trying to do so will end in tears. I have used both programs, with the caveat that I have used Hero Lab primarily for Mutants and Masterminds (though I've checked out the Pathfinder generator in demo mode since I won't shell out the additional $20 to unlock Pathfinder, since I unlocked M&M on purchase). Versatile generator can allow you to create any character or monster, including hit-die increased, templated, classed monster, etc. Staff are slow to update but friendly and responsive Can output your character sheet in a number of styles and statblocks Can customize your own datasets (and improvements in the LST editors are coming down the line) #Pcgen mythic generator# Cross platform support (but this comes with the downside that it's Java-based for this reason and can be slow, although you can play with your memory settings to mitigate this) #Pcgen mythic update# GUI is clunky, although the staff are working on improvements for future updates. However, you can easily adjust panels of information per page, to see the information you want to see and hide the stuff you don't. Also have free access to ample datasets of various other d20 systems, e.g., 3.5 and d20 Modern and Spycraft. This is the wishlist, most of these products we have asked permission for, please see the Permissions section above to see if we are allowed to do this data set.Also very versatile and very customizable re: creating characters, monsters, adding templates, etc. If you find we are unable to publish data for a source you are interested in, you may wish to contact the publisher directly to express your interest in having a dataset for PCGen available (either a free one distributed by PCGen or a commercial dataset distributed by the publisher or a third party). It is possible that PCGen does not have the features to support a sufficient amount of the data from a given source, and thus is not included in our production release (or is included as an alpha source).We believe if we cannot identify the source of the data, then the value to PCGen users is lost (how do you find the data?), so we will not include a dataset for that source. Under the OGL, we require permission to use those to identify the source of the data. If the book if partially or completely OGL content, then we still require permission from the publisher because the publisher name and book title are both trademarks.If the book is closed content, then we may not have permission from the publisher, or may not have permission to include enough data to allow the data to be useful to our users.There are a few possible causes for this situation and the explanation hold true for both datasets that have never been in PCGen and some which have been in PCGen but were removed. Keep in mind that this will happen only if a volunteer has taken a fancy to the source and has started working on it.Īlso just because a source is requested does not mean it can or will ever make it into PCGen, the source must be Open Game Content for this to happen (or we have to gain explicit permission, see for the permissions we do have, both for the data sets requested below and others). Once a source has been picked up and is being worked on it will be removed from here and moved to New Data Source Development issue tracking system where its progress can be tracked. Here we will keep a list or requests for new sources. 2.1 Why is book not included in PCGen?. ![]()
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