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<blockquote data-quote="merton_monk" data-source="post: 372583" data-attributes="member: 4361"><p><strong>RE:Alternative to PCGen</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The loss of die rolling has indeed been painful, but we only underwent that surgery because Wotc said that by doing so they would seriously consider giving us permission for their non-SRD material. Remember that the D20 license has built it into a clause that will let Wotc change it as they deem fit - so I'm hoping that by having a good working relationship we can see if we can at all influence the restrictions built into the license. It may be a pipe dream, but we'll see. If no die rolling is the cost of being able to include all their material, it's a price I'll gladly pay!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I like to think our board is generally quite friendly. I can understand why you might think it's a bit hostile due to our vigilant moderators. For the past 4 weeks we've had a lot of users rant about the licenses - it varied from innocent queries about how it would be applied, to invectives against Wotc for "forcing" this upon us (nevermind that we made it clear that it was our choice!), to people suggesting lots of ways to covertly get around the restrictions by inventive rationalizations. This started many flame-wars and bug reports and user questions were getting lost in all this traffic. This traffic generally wasn't helpful with regards to our discussions with Wotc either - not that Wotc holds us directly responsible for everything that occurs on our boards, but I didn't want our board to denegrate into a hotbed of anti-Wotc sentiment. We started off by asking/warning the frequent offenders about their behavior, but that had no impact, so we started invoking moderator priviledges. I really don't like our having to play censor, and I'm hoping that in the near future this will calm down so we can stop moderating. The unfortunate side-effect is that sometimes a new user thinks that they're the first to go on a rant about what they think has been going on. Sometimes other users took our policy of stopping threads as open season on stepping on anyone who even came close to stepping over that line. When that happens, those users get the same treatment - a warning and/or their post is deleted. It's stated clearly in our "Welcome" message that these topics have been beat to death and most users would prefer not to see another thread on those subjects. If you ever think that someone was stepped on unfairly or that a post was deleted unjustly or that a moderator or anyone else was out of line, please email me directly. If people want to rant against Wotc in general we direct them to the message boards at wizards.com. If they want to discuss the fine points of the OGL/D20 license they could do so here or on the OGL mailing list. Most of our audience doesn't care about the license - they simply want a place where they can give bug reports and other feedback, ask questions about functionality and not feel like their post gets lost in a lot of traffic that is tangential in nature at best.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="merton_monk, post: 372583, member: 4361"] [b]RE:Alternative to PCGen[/b] The loss of die rolling has indeed been painful, but we only underwent that surgery because Wotc said that by doing so they would seriously consider giving us permission for their non-SRD material. Remember that the D20 license has built it into a clause that will let Wotc change it as they deem fit - so I'm hoping that by having a good working relationship we can see if we can at all influence the restrictions built into the license. It may be a pipe dream, but we'll see. If no die rolling is the cost of being able to include all their material, it's a price I'll gladly pay! I like to think our board is generally quite friendly. I can understand why you might think it's a bit hostile due to our vigilant moderators. For the past 4 weeks we've had a lot of users rant about the licenses - it varied from innocent queries about how it would be applied, to invectives against Wotc for "forcing" this upon us (nevermind that we made it clear that it was our choice!), to people suggesting lots of ways to covertly get around the restrictions by inventive rationalizations. This started many flame-wars and bug reports and user questions were getting lost in all this traffic. This traffic generally wasn't helpful with regards to our discussions with Wotc either - not that Wotc holds us directly responsible for everything that occurs on our boards, but I didn't want our board to denegrate into a hotbed of anti-Wotc sentiment. We started off by asking/warning the frequent offenders about their behavior, but that had no impact, so we started invoking moderator priviledges. I really don't like our having to play censor, and I'm hoping that in the near future this will calm down so we can stop moderating. The unfortunate side-effect is that sometimes a new user thinks that they're the first to go on a rant about what they think has been going on. Sometimes other users took our policy of stopping threads as open season on stepping on anyone who even came close to stepping over that line. When that happens, those users get the same treatment - a warning and/or their post is deleted. It's stated clearly in our "Welcome" message that these topics have been beat to death and most users would prefer not to see another thread on those subjects. If you ever think that someone was stepped on unfairly or that a post was deleted unjustly or that a moderator or anyone else was out of line, please email me directly. If people want to rant against Wotc in general we direct them to the message boards at wizards.com. If they want to discuss the fine points of the OGL/D20 license they could do so here or on the OGL mailing list. Most of our audience doesn't care about the license - they simply want a place where they can give bug reports and other feedback, ask questions about functionality and not feel like their post gets lost in a lot of traffic that is tangential in nature at best. [/QUOTE]
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