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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luke" data-source="post: 102649" data-attributes="member: 602">Re: Re: Re: Is Software next?The message I'm referring to was somebody using RPM and PCGen together. I assume it's actually the use of RPM that avoids needing books most. RPM contains all the legalD20 SRD content for feats, spells, magic, classes etc, which is virtually word-for-word with the core books. By operating under the OGL RPM is fully protected.It's PCGen's safety that worries me. After a long time WOTC decided to toughen up about the ESD conversions, despite all the flak it's causing. I'd say that in the early days it suited WOTC, since it provided a wealth of material that made 3rd ed more attractive. Once MasterTools is released, PCGen could suffer the same fate, since it would no longer suit WOTC to have this electronic character generation utility available. In fact, as already stated by "WOTC", the future line of MasterTools expansions (to finally reach it's original vision), will depend on strong sales of the initial product. They took out so much of the original plan, that it's now probably head-to-head with PCGen in functionality. Killing offerings such as PCGen is likely to be percieved as helping with funding MasterTools' future. There would originally be a backlash, but I suspect the larger part of the fanbase would convert. At the end of the day, the "non-legal" standing of PCGen will make it's case very hard to defend from a moral high ground. A precedent has definitely been set here. What WOTC tolerated yesterday, they can revoke tomorrow.Prior to MasterTools, PCGen fills a void that greatly helps players. Also, with it's wealth of 3rd party source books, PCGen encourages the purchase of non-WOTC material. WOTC can't stop you using other 3rd party material with permission, but they can force you to gut ALL the WOTC material (even the core stuff, unless you start conforming to the OGL). That would dramatically change the usefulness of PCGen to people.Let's just hope it all pans out okay... PCGen is a huge effort based on dedicate gamer's efforts, but then so were the ESD conversions... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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