E-Tools: Anyone Sharing Custom Files?

[rook111]

I remember when the original Core Rules programs came out that there were loads of custom files shared by the community. I recently got ahold of a copy (i bought it) and like it but it needs a lot of additional content to please me. So I got online and started looking and I can't find any sites with user created files. i found a site which had the E-Tools Helper and associated programes but no Files to use them with.

So is anyone using this programing and does anyone have any files to share. I will be sharing what I make up but I'm slow at that sort of thing and rely on those with more talent than me.

 

[kingpaul]

Code Monkey Publishing is now updating eTools, both the program and datasets for WotC products. You can also ask on their forums how to build various items in the database using eTools Helper.

 

[Davin]

FYI -- most of the files being shared "in the old days" were of proprietary content. Such information is illegal to share and so those old files were removed from the net. Sharing open content or personally-created (not copied/adapted) information is fine though, even though there isn't much out there these days.

For official Wizards data, most people prefer to buy it pre-built from CMP for a very small amount of money relative to the amount of work it would take to create it yourself.

 

[rook111]

Well that sucks. The Core Rules Programs had a great community going. Seems that with E-Tools its just a buisiness. Kinda wish I hadn't bought it now.

 

[kingpaul]

Well that sucks. The Core Rules Programs had a great community going. Seems that with E-Tools its just a buisiness. Kinda wish I hadn't bought it now.

A couple things.

1. There is a good community of folks over at CMP's boards
2. I'm not sure I understand your statement of 'sucks'. Are you upset because WotC wants their closed IP material to not be distributed freely? As Davin said, OGC files are fine for sharing.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Well that sucks. The Core Rules Programs had a great community going. Seems that with E-Tools its just a buisiness. Kinda wish I hadn't bought it now.

Well to be honest it is a business... Me personally I wish I didn't by it for all the same elegant reason you used.

 

[cyderak]

Try Kazaa dude


i saw some on there

 

[Mynex]

So you don't think that our forums at CMP are a community?

Have you been there and read through them? There's a far nicer community there than when eTools was handled by the previous company and there were massive issues with eTools code wise.

Regardless of that, if our prices for the data sets are too expensive for your tastes, you can always enter the information yourself. You ensure that you'll only enter the information you need that way and not spend any money doing so, just your time.

We aren't forcing anyone to buy our data sets, we're offering them for sale as a way for people to save their time of entering the information themselves.

So that's up to you. I know that there are several people working on data sets for their own campaigns, but if you want WotC closed content, you have two choices; Buy them or make them yourself.

To the Person who said look on Kazaa... Thanks for encouraging piracy. Real nice of you to direct people to take our hard work for free. I'll save the arguments against piracy, people have hashed them over and over, either people will or they won't steal. So I guess there is a third option, theft.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I'll just say that adding monsters as the need arises is pretty easy in E-Tools. I added several from the Monsternomicon, it takes five minutes for a simple monster.

Community is fine, but if the community exists solely to avoid spending money on products by engaging in legally questionable acts, then you're not really helping the industry or helping the next great D&D product to get made. This is a small industry, and everyone's actions are felt by the few people who try to make a living doing this.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

To the Person who said look on Kazaa... Thanks for encouraging piracy. Real nice of you to direct people to take our hard work for free. I'll save the arguments against piracy, people have hashed them over and over, either people will or they won't steal. So I guess there is a third option, theft.

While, I don't condone piracy, software piracy is not theft. If I steal your car, that's theft. Copying your software, while it may cause you to lose a sale, is not theft, as you have not been bereft of your product - you still have it. Whether or not piracy is WRONG is a different matter altogether, but theft, it is not.