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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nylanfs" data-source="post: 1250963" data-attributes="member: 10612">Well having owned both (but I can't find my eTools CD since moving and reformating my computer, Grrr). Core Rules was fairly good at what it did, which was take a non-logical system and adapt it for generating characters on the computer. It was generally user friendly, and had good help. Plus it had the text of all the books it supported.eTools major failing, other than all the management and design switches, was that it's using a Access database, and the code isn't flexible enough. With WotC creating the OGL license it opened the floodgates for individual creativity, hence the 600+ d20/OGL sources there are today. And I don't think that Fluid's designers really understood how the game system worked because it didn't really do some of the really basic things right.Since Code Monkey Publishing (<a href="http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com" target="_blank">http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com</a>) was given control of the eTools project. They have developed  patches that fix the code for almost every bug that exists in it, I think the last total was 354+ bugs. But there are still some things that they can't support because the code isn't flexible enough, ie Templates for one thing. They have said that they are planning on doing a total re-write of the code, but that's going to be a while away.Personally until the re-write of eTools, I'm sticking with PCGen <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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