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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chacal" data-source="post: 344783" data-attributes="member: 1349">First, I like the project and I really appreciate the work that's done by all pcgen team.I've tried it at different stages of evolution, and I've seen lots of improvement (except a couple of things I'll point out later)As anyone who tried pcgen, I can state that you can't use it in replacement for a book.[EDIT] I just tried 3.1.1 so I edit my comments. By the way I don't see the release info for this on the boards, and wonder why the 3.1.0 has been closed. [/EDIT]What I like : free,  customisation of data and exports, support.-the custom equipment is really good (It took me some time to find it, because I wasn't used to rightclick in pcgen <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )What I dislike (mainly GUI, but possibly with some repercution on structures)1 The  summary tab lets you select a class, which prevents you from changing stats with pointbuy. [EDIT] Fixed by having the stats moved to summary tab. Good job ! The summary tab is finally user friendly and shows what's expected from a Character generator[/EDIT][ b]2[/b]Too many questions are asked (via the chooser dialog) upon levelling. This slows down the process of creating high level NPCs (or PCs).2.1Some of the questions could be avoided:For instance which spellcasting class do you want to increase when raising level in a PrC. In many cases, there's only one possible selection.  I would really like to have an option that will determine the chooser's behavior when only one selection is possible:- Choose ( like it does actually: 2 clicks)- Confirm  (the chooser preselect it and you just confirm)- Skip ( the chooser dialog doesn't show up and the selection is done automatically)(of course I'll choose the third option)2.2Even when several options exist, you might want to select them later. For instance, fighter feats are tricky to choosebecause you don't have spend the "normal feats" thus some feats which needs several prereq can't be selected via the chooser.Of course you can cancel the chooser but it's still annoying. An option like:-Delay unnecessary choicescould help here too.3 Another problem with the chooser upon levelling is the following:If Spell Mastery is one of the granted feat to be selected (like for a Wiz 5) , the chooser generates a list of spellmastery(spell) for each known spell, then let only select one, regardless of int.It should, at least work like in the feat tab.I hope the above criticisms will help.[EDIT] Points 2 and 3 still hold for 3.1.1[/EDIT]Chacal</blockquote>

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