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<blockquote data-quote="Mynex" data-source="post: 1304914" data-attributes="member: 2136"><p>Hal,</p><p></p><p>PCGen periodically releases Production builds, about every few months. The next one is slated to be 5.6 next week sometime and is being tweaked for 3.5 rules (some minor issues remained - mostly data tweaks, but a couple code tweaks). You don't need to upgrade to the latest beta every time it's released, unless you want to.</p><p></p><p>The RSRD is what comes with the regular releases of PCGen, so it's OGL clean.</p><p></p><p>Cost: Free</p><p>Learning Curve: Moderate</p><p>Bonus: Comes with a lot of OGL material from other publishers</p><p>Negative: Bare mechanics only. Very little to no description of items.</p><p></p><p>eTools supports 95% of the 3.5 rules in the 1.4 patch, the 1.4.1 patch addresses the other 5%. eTools still does not support Templates however, and that's a major problem (hence our rewrite from scratch). The Data Sets for 3.5 are being tweaked and should be ready soon.</p><p></p><p>The data sets are created directly from the core 3 3.5 books so is not OGL clean, it's the full books.</p><p></p><p>Cost: 30$ for the program, 6.75$ for the 3.5 core data set.</p><p>Learning Curve: Easy to Moderate</p><p>Bonus: Full text for the material.</p><p>Negative: Must purchase each data set you want, no non-WotC support (at this time).</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't know the ins and outs of the other CharGen's as well, but support for 3.5 is present in Twin Rose Campaign Suite, and I believe for DM's Familiar.</p><p></p><p>Haven't looked at Redblade in a while, so can't say.</p><p></p><p>There are a couple others, but I believe the above 5 are the most advanced in abilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mynex, post: 1304914, member: 2136"] Hal, PCGen periodically releases Production builds, about every few months. The next one is slated to be 5.6 next week sometime and is being tweaked for 3.5 rules (some minor issues remained - mostly data tweaks, but a couple code tweaks). You don't need to upgrade to the latest beta every time it's released, unless you want to. The RSRD is what comes with the regular releases of PCGen, so it's OGL clean. Cost: Free Learning Curve: Moderate Bonus: Comes with a lot of OGL material from other publishers Negative: Bare mechanics only. Very little to no description of items. eTools supports 95% of the 3.5 rules in the 1.4 patch, the 1.4.1 patch addresses the other 5%. eTools still does not support Templates however, and that's a major problem (hence our rewrite from scratch). The Data Sets for 3.5 are being tweaked and should be ready soon. The data sets are created directly from the core 3 3.5 books so is not OGL clean, it's the full books. Cost: 30$ for the program, 6.75$ for the 3.5 core data set. Learning Curve: Easy to Moderate Bonus: Full text for the material. Negative: Must purchase each data set you want, no non-WotC support (at this time). I don't know the ins and outs of the other CharGen's as well, but support for 3.5 is present in Twin Rose Campaign Suite, and I believe for DM's Familiar. Haven't looked at Redblade in a while, so can't say. There are a couple others, but I believe the above 5 are the most advanced in abilities. [/QUOTE]
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