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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kingpaul" data-source="post: 2539728" data-attributes="member: 1477">Both CMP and PCGen have communites that support the users. Over the past several years, both PCGen and eTools have progressed and improved. If there are issues, they can be brought to their forums for solutions.As for sharing, if you have permission from the IP owner to do so, then go for it. If you don't, then you can't.I thought both DMGenie and Roleplaying Master were commercial products? PCGen is free. I could be wrong.And as I said just above, both CMP and PCGen support their products through their forums/Y! groups respectively.Ummm...PCGen is a free product that has no ties to WotC.Once again, if *you* want to create a dataset for a product that *you* own for *your* self, there's *nothing* wrong with that.  You are still distributing someone else's IP in doing so.But by distributing the dataset, you aren't 'lending' or 'borrowing' because the item still exists on your computer...unless you delete said file from your computer, then only 1 instance of it still exists.Once again, CMP != PCGen. PCGen was in existence before CMP ever was. PCGen has not been shut down, we are still around.When were lawyers brought in? The then board of PCGen met with Anthony Valterra, then D&D Brand Manager.edit Put Ryan Dancey in by accident, it was Anthony Valterra instead.Once again, both CMP and PCGen have communities. We also don't advocate the dissemination of someone else's IP.Once again, for *your* self, you can create the datasets. If you are not the IP owner or do not have the IP owner's permission, then you can not dissemintate the IP. It has nothing to do with being a community and everything with folllowing the law.And, for PCGen, I know we've been trying to simplify things so that users can easily do their own datasets if they wish, instead of having to wait for the PCGen datamonkeys to create the OGC ones or the CMP datamonkeys to do the WotC ones.</blockquote>

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