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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4548922" data-attributes="member: 710">So far, I am very pleased. But it's "only" a beta release, and a few of the things talked about in the review are not entirely in yet. But the core features that could be tested looked very good.It has been quite some time since I last used PCGen (2 years at least, I think) and even longer then the old 3.0 Character Generator, and I never got into e-Tools, but: The interface looks solid. You can get through the character generation reasonably quick, and the information on rules material is presented well and (as far as I can see) complete. At this point, the book only contains the information necessary to create 3rd level characters, so basically it doesn't have the "complete" rules database. This might decide aspects like application performance in the future, but I don't worry too much. (If they are in fact using a database, the performance should stay good, if they try to keep everything in memory, not so much. But I doubt that.)I am not sure if the stat calculations are entirely perfect. I think I have noticed that some conditional attack bonuses in powers might not be calculated in, but that is relatively minor, since the rules text is still found in the power.I think the DDI will be worth it, particularly if all the remaining applications can achieve a similar quality. Assuming the teams developing the apps work together (are the same?), it definitely looks as if they can get things done well.</blockquote>

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