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Blah! No. That's the spirit of OGC, that other people can use your content, it's not a requirement. The OGL says that the material has to be 'clearly indicated'. That's it. Again, bah humbug! OGL has to be 'clearly indicated' according to the license. That's it. All this extraneous...

Can you do it? Sure. It's being done without complaint right now. Is it legal? Who knows, hasn't been tested yet in court. There are some people who will say it is not legal, others who think it is. Welcome to the OGL.

Tools That covers a wide-range of things. Any more specific? First off, you have Character Generators - programs for making NPCs, PCs, advancing monsters, applying templates, etc. In this category is E:Tools, PCGen, Campaign Suite, Roleplaying Master, DM Genie. Then there's Combat...

What about the horse?

There's also ScreenMonkey from NBos and OpenRPG.

DM's Familiar can import stat blocks. There is a specific stat block layout for PCGen and E:Tools. So yes, many people use one of those programs to create NPCs, advanced/templated monsters, etc. and then import them to DMF for use during the game. DMF also includes Tablesmith as an add-on so...

Campaign Suite (Twin Rose) is more PC Creation software than GM Software in my mind. It creates NPCs, it doesn't do combat management. GMGen, part of PCGen or an add-on, is another GM software. DM Genie, RPM, and DM's Familiar (mine) are all very well supported. We do it because we love it...

The Scry spell says "If the subject succeeds on a Will Save, the scrying attempt simply fails." It then goes on to say "If the save fails you can see (but not hear) the subject" So if the subject makes the saving throw, then the Scry simply fails: the caster sees and hears nothing. If the...

There's also The Wyrm's Hoard - an online, searchable database of adventures. It has all of the 3.0 Dungeon adventures in it. Anyone can enter new stuff as well so the older issues could be entered.

Efficiency If you're talking efficiency, then you have to ask yourself what your spend a lot of time doing in-game. The answer to that is probably - Combat. So if you'd like to be more efficient, then a getting your laptop to assist in combat would be the thing to look for. A program that can...

DMF also has a "Test Dice Roller" function where you can roll 10,000 dice and show the players the results. Not that this convinces them though. My players are convinced the computer is out to get them. But then again, they think I have "lucky dice" that are out to get them as well. As...

I like Gridsmith. Let's see, AuroRealm, DungeonCrafter, the Dungeon add-on for Campaign Cartographer, and others I can't think of off the top of my head.

Patches for DM's Familiar do not cost anything. The upgrade mentioned on the website was for folks who bought DMF very early at a lower price. There's also Crystal Ball for the Mac, Helge's DM Screen, and probably some others that I am forgetting. If you're looking specifically towards Combat...

The OGL says that the included Open Gaming Material has to be "clearly identified". Wizards has said, that to them, this means "human readable". It hasn't gone to court so we don't know what a judge would say. For whatever it is worth, there has been material released as OGL that is not "human...

Interesting discussion. I use DM's Familiar (since I wrote it). It has a tree view and notes - I use a 3rd party tool to do it and I'm not overly happy with it. It's not as powerful as some of these tools you guys are mentioning. But, I really like the combat manager and the reference library...

Aweber would be the most common one I think. It cost some $ though each month.

DM's Familiar has a basic tree-view tool in it as well - The Codex Tree. You can use it to write your adventure but you can also use it to drop in D&D specific things - rules, spells, monsters, etc. So you can have a note that has the text for your room, and a link you can click to open the...

If I'm not mistaken, EMachines is in the process of being bought out by Gateway. Don't know how that would influence your decision.

There's also a discussion of Fair Use going on here.

Or, you could post datasets with copyrighted information and claim it as Fair Use under Copyright Law. That's what PCGen did in the early days and, as far as I know, there were no big complaints from any publishers. There's a discussion of it here.