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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ketjak" data-source="post: 2289715" data-attributes="member: 1083">Ease-of-use: The "CharBook" Excel spreadsheet from Brian Wardman (hosted at RPGsheets.com) (<a href="http://www.rpgsheets.com/cgi-bin/arcdb.cgi?action=dl&id=1996" target="_blank">http://www.rpgsheets.com/cgi-bin/arcdb.cgi?action=dl&id=1996</a>) is pretty good for character sheet generation, but has no stat block outputs. And it has bugs, but he's working them out.PC Gen (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ex7nc" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ex7nc</a>) is harder to use, much more flexible, and at first had what I might consider insurmountable user interface problems. It's still got a bad UI, though I see it less now that I use it. It outputs stat blocks in a couple of different styles, none of which are complete or bug-free. They're also not in the format I wish they were in, which requires manual editing or I put up with it. Of course, I could learn to edit them, since PC Gen is incredibly customizable.I don't use PC Gen for very important NPCs or my characters when I play - I use charbook for those, perhaps PC Gen as a "scratch pad" and for lesser characters. And both utilities are made by volunteers and take feedback. Truthfully, though I acknowledge their weaknesses they have each saved me dozens of hours - and charbook especially makes leveling a standard character (and now many prestige classes, too) a breeze. I owe them my thanks (again!).</blockquote>