Gamers Opinion of PCGen (No Rants)

[Hardhead]

Yes!

Wow. I just downloaded 3.1.1. The changes in the GUI are unbelievable. Much more streamlined. Trimed the number of tabs down to 9, and just generally a ton more intuitive.

Still, there's room for improvement.

(1)Too many classes and races in the sumary tab. The Sumary tab should be kept clean and simple, so it should only show Base Classes and PC races be default. You would still be able to select monster races and classes in their individual tabs, of course. Also, those two should start out sorted by type as the default option, to make browsing more managable.

(2)Why does it not automatically roll you HP anymore?

 

[Knightcrawler]

I've talked to them about the number of pop-ups. In 3.1.1 it gets really ridiculous. Hopefully we can severly curtail the use of pop-ups later on.

As to the removal of the hp roller. All "interactive" features, i.e. any random rolls, have been removed to be in complience with the OGL/D20 licenses.

 

[jgbrowning]

One of the things that I do want to hear about is: Does PCGen make it so you don't have to buy the book? That I know is a concern often voiced by publishers.

Why are the publishers concerned with with a person's using PCgen not wanting to buy their books?


joe b.

 

[Knightcrawler]

Easy one word, MONEY. If you don't buy their books they don't get MONEY.

 

[Chacal]

Re: Re: Gamers Opinion of PCGen (No Rants)

Why are the publishers concerned with with a person's using PCgen not wanting to buy their books?
joe b.

Because either:
- they didn't look at pcgen close enough to see that you can't do anything with just a name and a vague description,

or

-they choose awful names for their feats/classes/races and only count on their cool books cover to sell



Chacal