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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vascant" data-source="post: 2844990" data-attributes="member: 13927">Actually I am going to answer this from a different approach...Rather then pointing out flaws different programs may or may not have why not look at what you are asking for and finding what fits your needs..Your primary desire seems to be from the DM's side of the table and being able to quickly generate NPCs and PCs with data from WotC official material (You may be asking for other publishers in which case, all opinions remain the same or worse).PCGen and Etools are the only programs will WotC official material support, but I would not dare say either have the full power to generate NPCs without doing them pretty much by hand.  If I have understood Paul correctly from a few threads, PCGen has some of the functionality but skills, feats and equipment still all need to be done by hand (I wonder about spell lists as well?   I don't know) . ETools does not do this, it has pretty much everything you see in the DMG as far as NPC Generation goes.  Now if you are willing to do all the work by hand, then either will work for you, if you are using a windows PC, again both work for you.  While ETools may not be abandoned yet it is as good as it is going to get from what I have followed in threads, the last patch has been released.  PCGen on the other hand is a moving target and seems someone is always working on it and even some reports that in the last few updates recently there have been some speed improvements.On both sides of that coin you will find people who love either program or people who hate both.  Me personally I do not hate, I just find both programs useless for my needs and created my own programs to handle those needs.  If you are willing to take some time, you may want to look at a third option.  There are some other really decent d20 based programs available that allow you to create your own data, then you can put the IP protected data in yourself and have a decent program.</blockquote>

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