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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 282716" data-attributes="member: 158">Moridin:First of all, I have great respect for you, and the hard work you put into your site. This post is not to slam you; rather, it is to clear up some of the misconceptions about PCGEN.First of all, for matcolville and others who raised this, the program is, and always will be, FREE. No charging money for it has been the decision of the creator from the beginning. Not that this would ameliorate any claims of copyright ingringement, but there is no charge for the program, even now that they have reached a "development" release. (version 3.0.0, for those who wonder.) This just means that version 3.0 will be available as a stable release. The beta's will continue.Second, the LST Files (The files containing data from different supplements and releases) is ENTIRELY fan created. The programmers have nothing to do with the maintenance and creation of these files, and the ".lst monkeys" are the ones who decide which projects to tackle. If there has ever been a contention with certain included content, the policy has always been to remove it if asked - even as you said, in your case.Third, the program is under constant improvement. The program sees one release every week to two weeks, to give you an idea of just how  much development is being done.Fourth, all volunteers working on it are just that - volunteers. THey are not paid for thier efforts. If anyone suggests a feature or a product .LST , they are invited to jump in and assist, if they wish. Otherwise, it goes into the long list of features and improvements to add, and work goes on.Fifth, the PCGen development team have publically stated on their web site that they are NOT OGL-compliant, nor have they claimed to be. This actually served to head off a number of legal issue regarding coding.Sixth, if any publisher, WotC or otherwise, wishes a LST file of their product removed, then they will do so. As an aside a long laundry list of official d20 publishers have welcomed PCGen inclusion with open arms. I recall a rumor that one d20 publisher actually provides LST files of their expansions soon after release!Seventh and final point, Anyone who misses out on the development of PCGen is missing a fantastic thing - a software app that can generate fuly detailed characters for almost any d20 setting. I use it for most of my games that we play, and am very satisfied with the product, occasional bug or not. In fact, one of our group members recently came up with a d20 star trek variant game. I already have 80% of his rules input into PCGen - did it in about 3 hours time, too. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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