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<blockquote data-quote="TheOverlord" data-source="post: 5174035" data-attributes="member: 83747">HurdlesI can fully appreciate what you are looking for. It was worth mentioning that the primary reason you will have a tough time finding what you want is that applications cannot include what you want legally. At least not without doing tricky things. Except for the core books, none of the material you mentioned is covered by the OGL. This means that while an application can provide a quick and easy way to add new classes or races, they cannot include classes or races from non-OGL books. This also means that fans could probably get away with passing around datasets that provided this data for applications in some way but even this practice is often shot down if done openly. Several companies have sought special rights to use non-OGL content such as PCGen (they have done a great job by the way (<a href="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net/autobuilds/pcgen-docs/acknowledgments/publishersandsources.html" target="_blank">PCGen 3rd party source list</a>) But, other than that you are going to have a hard time. Note also that it will be a warm day in Stygia when Wizards of the Coast provides a 3.5 Character Creation tool official license to use their non-OGL content. With all that said it might be in your best interests to take another look at the tools you went through and judge those tools' ability to add new classes and races and rules by hand yourself...as this may be the only way you will ever get close to what you want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheOverlord, post: 5174035, member: 83747"] [b]Hurdles[/b] I can fully appreciate what you are looking for. It was worth mentioning that the primary reason you will have a tough time finding what you want is that applications cannot include what you want legally. At least not without doing tricky things. Except for the core books, none of the material you mentioned is covered by the OGL. This means that while an application can provide a quick and easy way to add new classes or races, they cannot include classes or races from non-OGL books. This also means that fans could probably get away with passing around datasets that provided this data for applications in some way but even this practice is often shot down if done openly. Several companies have sought special rights to use non-OGL content such as PCGen (they have done a great job by the way ([URL="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net/autobuilds/pcgen-docs/acknowledgments/publishersandsources.html"]PCGen 3rd party source list[/URL]) But, other than that you are going to have a hard time. Note also that it will be a warm day in Stygia when Wizards of the Coast provides a 3.5 Character Creation tool official license to use their non-OGL content. With all that said it might be in your best interests to take another look at the tools you went through and judge those tools' ability to add new classes and races and rules by hand yourself...as this may be the only way you will ever get close to what you want. [/QUOTE]

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