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<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 216753" data-attributes="member: 4">It totally depends on the campaign.&nbsp; I seldom if ever use prestige classes, but I often use tweaked or advanced monsters as well as monsters with character classes.&nbsp; For me it is a must-have.&nbsp; If you find PC Gen's interface and output to be adequate, that program is superior in many ways, mostly in the amount of data from non-core sources included.&nbsp; Even then you might find E-Tools to be worth it for the monster-related stuff it can do alone.&nbsp; I mean, really, $30?&nbsp; It's not much to pay for a great deal of convenience.&nbsp; For tomorrow's game I wanted to put together a fey'ri rogue/sorcerer/fighter/spur lord character.&nbsp; (Fey'ri are elf/tanar'ri tieflings, and Spur Lord is a prestige class from Lords of Darkness).&nbsp; It was a snap to put together the fey'ri race with the race generator.&nbsp; It was a snap to put together the rogue/sorcerer/fighter part.&nbsp; Then what I did was copy and paste the stat block from the stat block screen, and then in my word processor I added the hit dice, hit points, skill points, base attack bonus, special abilities and saving throws that came with the levels of Spur Lord.&nbsp; That part was not so convenient, but was still not bad at all to do.&nbsp; Certainly a lot easier than building the whole thing by hand.&nbsp; And for me easier than using PC Gen even if that race and PrC were already built in (which they might be, I don't know).&nbsp; Your mileage may vary. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 216753, member: 4"] It totally depends on the campaign. I seldom if ever use prestige classes, but I often use tweaked or advanced monsters as well as monsters with character classes. For me it is a must-have. If you find PC Gen's interface and output to be adequate, that program is superior in many ways, mostly in the amount of data from non-core sources included. Even then you might find E-Tools to be worth it for the monster-related stuff it can do alone. I mean, really, $30? It's not much to pay for a great deal of convenience. For tomorrow's game I wanted to put together a fey'ri rogue/sorcerer/fighter/spur lord character. (Fey'ri are elf/tanar'ri tieflings, and Spur Lord is a prestige class from Lords of Darkness). It was a snap to put together the fey'ri race with the race generator. It was a snap to put together the rogue/sorcerer/fighter part. Then what I did was copy and paste the stat block from the stat block screen, and then in my word processor I added the hit dice, hit points, skill points, base attack bonus, special abilities and saving throws that came with the levels of Spur Lord. That part was not so convenient, but was still not bad at all to do. Certainly a lot easier than building the whole thing by hand. And for me easier than using PC Gen even if that race and PrC were already built in (which they might be, I don't know). Your mileage may vary. :) [/QUOTE]

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