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<blockquote data-quote="Filthbeard" data-source="post: 297968" data-attributes="member: 6524">Hi,I picked up e-tools today.&nbsp; I am happy with it in some respects and displeased with others.&nbsp;&nbsp; It will be very useful in creating encounters from the monster manual.&nbsp; Making treasure lists, and basic characters.&nbsp; It allows you to input custum races, gods, feats, spells, weapons, armor, shields, art, gems, skills, domains, magic items, languages.&nbsp; You can make custum monsters, generate random characters.&nbsp; You can make tables. All in an easy to use pop up interface.For some reason it doesn't have a prestige class input.&nbsp; That is&nbsp; one major gripe about it.&nbsp; I far as I can tell, I can input anything from any of my books, except the prestige classes.&nbsp; It also does not give option of random npc classes in the random character generator (i.e. warrior, adept, etc.) just PC classes.I am aware that some strange business discisions preceded its release.&nbsp; I would have liked to see more WOTC products supported by it.&nbsp; By this I mean, I own FRCS, monsters of Faerun, Song and Silence, and a shelf worth of other WOTC D&amp;D products. I would have gladly paided a lot more, if they had been already in the data.&nbsp; I will have&nbsp; to spend freetime keying in this data, instead of just using the program.&nbsp; That is annoying, because I would rather spend freetime preparing a game, painting figures, fishing, or collecting fossils.&nbsp;&nbsp; My verdict on e-tools, it is somewhat useful, but could have used a couple of more features.&nbsp; Hopefully, they will be added in product updates.PCgen I also use, I like it a lot.&nbsp; I think it is currently a lot better at generating a character.&nbsp; E-tools is better at making encounter stat blocks and treasure, but only if your using just the MM.&nbsp; However, you could key in the monsters from another book. I am not unhappy I bought e-tools, but I am not super pleased with it, in its current version.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Filthbeard, post: 297968, member: 6524"] Hi, I picked up e-tools today. I am happy with it in some respects and displeased with others. It will be very useful in creating encounters from the monster manual. Making treasure lists, and basic characters. It allows you to input custum races, gods, feats, spells, weapons, armor, shields, art, gems, skills, domains, magic items, languages. You can make custum monsters, generate random characters. You can make tables. All in an easy to use pop up interface. For some reason it doesn't have a prestige class input. That is one major gripe about it. I far as I can tell, I can input anything from any of my books, except the prestige classes. It also does not give option of random npc classes in the random character generator (i.e. warrior, adept, etc.) just PC classes. I am aware that some strange business discisions preceded its release. I would have liked to see more WOTC products supported by it. By this I mean, I own FRCS, monsters of Faerun, Song and Silence, and a shelf worth of other WOTC D&D products. I would have gladly paided a lot more, if they had been already in the data. I will have to spend freetime keying in this data, instead of just using the program. That is annoying, because I would rather spend freetime preparing a game, painting figures, fishing, or collecting fossils. My verdict on e-tools, it is somewhat useful, but could have used a couple of more features. Hopefully, they will be added in product updates. PCgen I also use, I like it a lot. I think it is currently a lot better at generating a character. E-tools is better at making encounter stat blocks and treasure, but only if your using just the MM. However, you could key in the monsters from another book. I am not unhappy I bought e-tools, but I am not super pleased with it, in its current version. [/QUOTE]

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