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<blockquote data-quote="coredump777" data-source="post: 372891" data-attributes="member: 7578"><p>What really annoys me isn't the experience or dice rolling thing. I use PCGen to input characters that the people from my 3 campaigns (2 OA/Rokugan based and one Chtulhu) and reassure that class skills, feats, and such are right (skill distribution is always a problem for my players, and I like to assure it using the program).</p><p>So, I have the characters rolled, and the level ups are done in the table, after each session. We have all the books we use, and the program is just for reference and sheet printing.</p><p></p><p>What pains me to the core is the loss of sources. All this because this SRD thing (not to say nonsense) that simple reduced the sources in PCGen to a state of inutility very close to Etools.</p><p></p><p>I still using the PCGen 2.7.3, that's is bugged I know, but I have the Oriental Adventures sources, I have a first version of Rokugan Campaign Setting, I have Forgotten Realms and a lot of sources.</p><p></p><p>I think that this OGL/SRD is just a way to wizards cripple good softwares (by the gods, pcgen is almost perfect for every game in the D20 system! and free! why they would support it?) and drop PCGen to all fours... Maybe I think of that because my heavy Linux/Free Software filosofy, where I see good programs (sometimes better than the "Most used OS in the world from M$") fall because they are forced dow by lawsuits from the great companies, and I see others resist bravely, take GIMP and GNOME integration in Exchange Server that works better than outlook.</p><p></p><p>I really, really think that in this point, there's no difference in the situation. It's a big company forcing good software to complain to rules that make the program as horrible as his own proprietary software.</p><p></p><p>tks</p><p>coredump</p><p>BSD/Linux User.network administrator.c ++ coder. free software/information advocate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coredump777, post: 372891, member: 7578"] What really annoys me isn't the experience or dice rolling thing. I use PCGen to input characters that the people from my 3 campaigns (2 OA/Rokugan based and one Chtulhu) and reassure that class skills, feats, and such are right (skill distribution is always a problem for my players, and I like to assure it using the program). So, I have the characters rolled, and the level ups are done in the table, after each session. We have all the books we use, and the program is just for reference and sheet printing. What pains me to the core is the loss of sources. All this because this SRD thing (not to say nonsense) that simple reduced the sources in PCGen to a state of inutility very close to Etools. I still using the PCGen 2.7.3, that's is bugged I know, but I have the Oriental Adventures sources, I have a first version of Rokugan Campaign Setting, I have Forgotten Realms and a lot of sources. I think that this OGL/SRD is just a way to wizards cripple good softwares (by the gods, pcgen is almost perfect for every game in the D20 system! and free! why they would support it?) and drop PCGen to all fours... Maybe I think of that because my heavy Linux/Free Software filosofy, where I see good programs (sometimes better than the "Most used OS in the world from M$") fall because they are forced dow by lawsuits from the great companies, and I see others resist bravely, take GIMP and GNOME integration in Exchange Server that works better than outlook. I really, really think that in this point, there's no difference in the situation. It's a big company forcing good software to complain to rules that make the program as horrible as his own proprietary software. tks coredump BSD/Linux User.network administrator.c ++ coder. free software/information advocate. [/QUOTE]
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