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<blockquote data-quote="Cougar" data-source="post: 317591" data-attributes="member: 2772"><p>Wow. This is a great thread. It seems like Brown Jenkin is mad because his (and a lot of people's) favorite program is being forced to change in some way to comply. And he sees that this new product (eTools) is not being forced to comply in the same way.</p><p></p><p>Well, I have one simple answer for you. eTools AND the material contained therein AND the material people want to enter are all owned by Wizards of the Coast. Period. Wotc can do whatever they want with it. They can allow it one minute and sue the next. It is their right.</p><p></p><p>WotC is nice enough (I think the PCGen developers will agree) to talk to companies that have a competing product and negotiate how they can all get along.</p><p></p><p>Now my opinion on what is going on is this. WotC promised, a long time ago when the PHB came out that there would be the be all end all computer program to help everyone with 3e. This was promised and the idea was developed by people who probably don't even work for WotC anymore. Over time, WotC lost interest in this type of product, especially after the focus shifted away from online gaming. I think now they are happy that some product went out the door. I think they don't really care about what happens now that the rabid eTools fans have their software. If you were ever on the WotC boards you will know why I say rabid. This is why they will allow anyone to enter in the information from the non-SRD books. They will be happy if all the material is out there with no assistance from them. I think there may be a danger of people putting up non-WotC stuff on the eTools boards over at Fluid, or even if they used Star Wars or Wheel of Time (neither of which are REMOTELY compatible with eTools). But that would be easily solved by Fluid taking it off their boards.</p><p></p><p>So until WotC says don't distribute our material in eTools files, i guess you have to live with it, even though you can't distribute WotC material with PCGen. Complain to WotC. Just don't do it on anyone's behalf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cougar, post: 317591, member: 2772"] Wow. This is a great thread. It seems like Brown Jenkin is mad because his (and a lot of people's) favorite program is being forced to change in some way to comply. And he sees that this new product (eTools) is not being forced to comply in the same way. Well, I have one simple answer for you. eTools AND the material contained therein AND the material people want to enter are all owned by Wizards of the Coast. Period. Wotc can do whatever they want with it. They can allow it one minute and sue the next. It is their right. WotC is nice enough (I think the PCGen developers will agree) to talk to companies that have a competing product and negotiate how they can all get along. Now my opinion on what is going on is this. WotC promised, a long time ago when the PHB came out that there would be the be all end all computer program to help everyone with 3e. This was promised and the idea was developed by people who probably don't even work for WotC anymore. Over time, WotC lost interest in this type of product, especially after the focus shifted away from online gaming. I think now they are happy that some product went out the door. I think they don't really care about what happens now that the rabid eTools fans have their software. If you were ever on the WotC boards you will know why I say rabid. This is why they will allow anyone to enter in the information from the non-SRD books. They will be happy if all the material is out there with no assistance from them. I think there may be a danger of people putting up non-WotC stuff on the eTools boards over at Fluid, or even if they used Star Wars or Wheel of Time (neither of which are REMOTELY compatible with eTools). But that would be easily solved by Fluid taking it off their boards. So until WotC says don't distribute our material in eTools files, i guess you have to live with it, even though you can't distribute WotC material with PCGen. Complain to WotC. Just don't do it on anyone's behalf. [/QUOTE]
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