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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 317732" data-attributes="member: 725">I'm not exactly sure what FUD is, but i have a pretty accurate guess (i think). I'm not trying to spread FUD, i'm just a bit tired of everyone busting their caps over PcGen or E-Tools, each has it's own champions (and of course there are the doomsday cults that say Nay to everything), and it seems each time a related thread starts a battle is fought between the different groups. Now i dragged Eric into this (sorry btw) because he is tha man, and people have difficulty saying anything bad about him. If he is doing it and Fluid is accepting this, it must not be all bad (or so i hope so). Call it a confrontation ;-)As for me 'bashing' E-Tools, not really true. Although i'll admit to anyone that it's initial release is pretty crud (there's missing some basic functionality that should be in there), i think it has great potential. Why else do you think i'm trying to find a solution to the +1 caster level problem? I've put my eggs into the E-Tools basket, mostly because i can expect some commercial support (i hope) and i think my players will appreciate the E-Tools interface a lot more then the PcGen one.Actually Fluid only made the provisions of only enabling users to enter about half the data, and as in everything in D&D a half get's rounded down. Give me 150 man hours and i could produce a written plan on how to implement everything with maximum flexibility, for some reason Fluid failed on the part of maximum flexibility (which is understandable given the background of the Master Tools).I have to agree that inputting a new monster/item/feat/spell is pretty simple within the tool limits. But when you want to make something a bit more complex (such as a new class or prestige class) you'll have to dig into the Access Database and i'l tell you from experience that the Access DB is a lot more difficult to work with than with a lst file (which everyone with a plain text editor could edit/produce). I've spent a good part of my saturday afternoon exploing the DB and am still not sure on what does what in E-tools, but after spending 10 minutes browsing through some lst files i could make them...Now my question to you, do you want WotC to crush the E-Tools files swapping activity? Do you think that would be beneficial for E-Tools as a tool? Do you think discussing E-Tools user transgressions will allow PcGen to suddenly be allowed to distribute WotC IP? If you answered all the above questions with no, what exactly is the point of discussing the above?</blockquote>

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