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<blockquote data-quote="karianna" data-source="post: 3721502" data-attributes="member: 8340"><p><strong>From the PCGen Chairmonkey</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, we approached them and offered PCGen as a mid-tier rules engine, we realise our UI is not up to scratch, but I think most people would agree that the sheer functionality of PCGen is 2nd to none. We ourselves will be working to split the core engine from the UI and develop a new UI in time (and of course 3rd parties are more than welcome to create their own UIs).</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately we never got a reply (despite repeated attempts) even through we regularly communicate with them over other matters. We can only conclude that they wanted to build something in house.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I haven't been following the latest rumours about DI, but my very rough understanding is that it'll be web browser based, so I guess that's fairly x-platform.</p><p></p><p>I hope my reply helps clarify things a little <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Oh, and of course PCGen will attempt to support 4e as long as the OGL/SRD or (what ever it will be) will allow us to do so. We think because we have such a strong/flexible rules engine, that we will be able to support it quite quickly (we already support 3e, 3.5e, modern, deadlands and other d20 systems).</p><p></p><p>We'll also once more politely ask WotC for the rights to use their book content (as opposed to just SRD content). Given WotC's recent trend to bring everything in house, I'm not sure how this will go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="karianna, post: 3721502, member: 8340"] [b]From the PCGen Chairmonkey[/b] No, we approached them and offered PCGen as a mid-tier rules engine, we realise our UI is not up to scratch, but I think most people would agree that the sheer functionality of PCGen is 2nd to none. We ourselves will be working to split the core engine from the UI and develop a new UI in time (and of course 3rd parties are more than welcome to create their own UIs). Unfortunately we never got a reply (despite repeated attempts) even through we regularly communicate with them over other matters. We can only conclude that they wanted to build something in house. I haven't been following the latest rumours about DI, but my very rough understanding is that it'll be web browser based, so I guess that's fairly x-platform. I hope my reply helps clarify things a little :) Oh, and of course PCGen will attempt to support 4e as long as the OGL/SRD or (what ever it will be) will allow us to do so. We think because we have such a strong/flexible rules engine, that we will be able to support it quite quickly (we already support 3e, 3.5e, modern, deadlands and other d20 systems). We'll also once more politely ask WotC for the rights to use their book content (as opposed to just SRD content). Given WotC's recent trend to bring everything in house, I'm not sure how this will go. [/QUOTE]
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