Recent content by merton_monk

Ummm.... does it matter how any of us feel? Wotc owns the IP - so you'd have to take that up with them. Feel free to do so, our discussions with them were laborious but always pleasant. PCGen seeks permission from the publishers before including anything in its free distribution, and I think...

As far as having an output sheet list all the bonuses goes... on some things you can. If you're at all familiar with our data files you know that they rely heavily on BONUS: tags. e.g. BONUS:COMBAT|AC|1 would add one to your AC. BONUS:COMBAT|AC|1|TYPE=Enchantment would add one to your AC and...

Hm - could you email me your archer's pcg file? send it to merton.monk@codemonkeypublishing.com and I'll debug it tonight. Keeping the character sheet numbers correct is our #1 priority, but collateral damage does occur. When it's significant enough we do an emergency release outside of the...

In 4.2.6 there is an issue with Arcane Archers getting magical arrow bonuses added to their class ability for enchanted arrows if you load the magical arrows into your bow. I believe this has already been addressed. The output sheet was changed and resulted in a great many improvements and...

A lot of ETools users have found Davin's ETools Helper to be a great, um, help. :) ETools Helper makes adding stuff to the database quite easy, and it makes sharing files (like the splat books) possible as well. I'm not sure what all splatbooks have been made into files for use with ETools...

Yes, PRESKILL:1,Knowledge (Undead),Knowledge (The Planes)=6 The 1 means "1 of the following list" and the =6 means six ranks.

Mynex is right - I must have had too much cold medicine in me! It is indeed the distribution factor that is key - if you bought the book you can make any copy of it you desire, including typing it into your preferred file format (i.e. Lst File format). However, you do not have permission to...

Is it illegal to make your own LST file from Sword and Fist for PCGen 4.0? No, this is not legal. Is it illegal to make your own LST file from Sword and Fist for PCGen 4.0 and then give it to your buddies you play D&D with? That depends. If they all own the books for which you're making...

PCGen is no longer slow. Anyone who says java is slow because it's java, hasn't dealt with it much lately. Java 1.3 and especially 1.4 is really quite fast and has come a long way since it's birth. Java will never equal or surpass C++ or similar compiled-to-machine-code languages for sheer...

Looks like it's having trouble with setting an option in the option.ini file. Could you post your option.ini file contents here? The other thing to try is simply deleting the file since it's recreated when you exit PCGen anyway. You'd simply have to reset any non-default preferences you had set.

The best place to get answers to data file questions is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen where many expert Data Monkeys hang out. :) That said, I think I can figure out what's going on.... In the Settings menu, click on Preferences. In the left-hand window select "Monsters". Make sure...

We'll be sure to ask Wotc for permission for the Web Enhancements. We're not restricted to only using OGL material - otherwise our discussions with Wotc about using their non-SRD material (which would include the web enhancements) would be moot, as would our discussions with non-OGL...

In OGL-land, you have 2 options: either it's OGC or it's PI. Which is kind of funny since in Math-land PI is 3.1415982344723423 (or thereabouts). Now you know why I'm not a standup comedian. :) Since you will be a published OGL author (I'm assuming you will be even though you don't specify...

Remember, we're just discussing the data files in terms of the OGL, not the interface. The NAMEISPI:Y should tell most people that the name is PI, and conversely that everything else is not, and the only other reasonable option is that it's open game content since under the OGL either something...

We're pretty pleased with how the performance has improved. In scientificly monitored benchmarks, 4.1.3 is over a zillion times fater than 4.1.1! :-) We are adding more editors - an editor for customised items has been there for a long time (just right click on an item in the "available" table...