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<blockquote data-quote="Luke" data-source="post: 401495" data-attributes="member: 602"><p><strong>Problems...</strong></p><p></p><p>Hmmm...</p><p></p><p>This may well seem better than Campagin Suite or DM Familar. On the surface it looks quite pretty without going much into 3rd edition mechanics calculations or flexibility. It's never approaching PCGen for mechanics calculations, as an example.</p><p></p><p><strong>But...</strong></p><p></p><p>This is <strong>going</strong> to have some very serious problems with section 8 compliance of the Open Gaming License.</p><p></p><p>I feel for these guys, since the section 8 compliance can easily catch you out, and is the hardest part, by far, to live up to. They seemed to sort the more obvious D20 license issues. The issues aren't very obvious at all, from a casual glance. On the other hand, since they're asking as much as the price of E-Tools (ie. a commercial venture), a bit more legal research would have been a good idea. There's certainly plenty of section 8 compliance problems discussion in the official mail list archives. PCGen did a lot of work to fix up the basics there.</p><p></p><p>They've gone for the D20 license (which Campaign Suite recently decided to give up), but can't even live up to the OGL - which legally leaves them nowhere.</p><p></p><p>I greatly suspect that Wizard's will shut this one down till the issues are addressed, and that fixing up the problems is going to require very major, serious programming surgery (I know exactly what I'm talking about here...).</p><p></p><p>The constant different types of reminders to register the software (even directly from PCs after their attacks!), is ...interesting. From a personal perspective I think it's way too early to ask money for it. It seems that there's lot of stuff that you still have to do manually. Doing <strong>everything</strong> manually helps avoid section 8 license problems (like DM's Familiar). Watch out for ending up with a tool that is little more than an RPG wordprocessor, and begs the question whether all the data entry and manual calculations make it worth using a computer at all.</p><p>I'd recommend researching section 8 issues in the official OGL list archives.</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Luke, post: 401495, member: 602"] [b]Problems...[/b] Hmmm... This may well seem better than Campagin Suite or DM Familar. On the surface it looks quite pretty without going much into 3rd edition mechanics calculations or flexibility. It's never approaching PCGen for mechanics calculations, as an example. [B]But...[/B] This is [B]going[/B] to have some very serious problems with section 8 compliance of the Open Gaming License. I feel for these guys, since the section 8 compliance can easily catch you out, and is the hardest part, by far, to live up to. They seemed to sort the more obvious D20 license issues. The issues aren't very obvious at all, from a casual glance. On the other hand, since they're asking as much as the price of E-Tools (ie. a commercial venture), a bit more legal research would have been a good idea. There's certainly plenty of section 8 compliance problems discussion in the official mail list archives. PCGen did a lot of work to fix up the basics there. They've gone for the D20 license (which Campaign Suite recently decided to give up), but can't even live up to the OGL - which legally leaves them nowhere. I greatly suspect that Wizard's will shut this one down till the issues are addressed, and that fixing up the problems is going to require very major, serious programming surgery (I know exactly what I'm talking about here...). The constant different types of reminders to register the software (even directly from PCs after their attacks!), is ...interesting. From a personal perspective I think it's way too early to ask money for it. It seems that there's lot of stuff that you still have to do manually. Doing [B]everything[/B] manually helps avoid section 8 license problems (like DM's Familiar). Watch out for ending up with a tool that is little more than an RPG wordprocessor, and begs the question whether all the data entry and manual calculations make it worth using a computer at all. I'd recommend researching section 8 issues in the official OGL list archives. Regards, [/QUOTE]
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