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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 473185" data-attributes="member: 6957">Its other gaping problem is NO DOCUMENTATION. None. PGen at least has a set of documents that works. E-Tools doesn't have anything, not even buttons that explain themselves when the mouse glides over them. In many ways it seems like an in-house editor, more beta than finished product. In fact  I gather that the 'patch' includes more new features than it does fixes, possibly because they were in the pipe when the program went gold.      I have not bought it, merely helped a friend use his copy. In all I was disappointed with it, but I would hardly call it the worst program that I have ever tried. (Does any one remember 'Outpost'?)      As for why someone who likes PCGen would buy E-Tools, don't forget that Wizards had a LOT of stuff pulled from PCGen, like the splatbooks and die rolling. People who wanted those functions would pretty much have to go with E-Tools. It would have been nice if they had at least provided a program that did as much as PCGen 2.x., but instead they provided something rather less.      Part of the problem was the changes of directions while the program was being written, part of the problem was time wasted on bells and whistles that ended up being discarded. I was on the Mastertools mailing list and kept cringing when I saw things like sounds and 3-D monster pictures were being added.     Then for months, nothing. I actually wonder how long it sat, frozen, without any work being done on the thing at all. And then it was dusted off, and shipped half finished to make it to Gen Con.     I really hope that they can get the thing to work right, but meanwhile I will continue to use PCGen, which. though not perfect, has a much larger database and worthwhile documentation. The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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