mattcolville
Adventurer
Glyfair said:You do realize that's actually what he was saying.
"Knowing how to create a product for the intended users, not you."
Means that it would have been good if the intended users could use it easily, and not just the designers.
Correct. PCGen is very impressive for what it is; a complex piece of software designed by many, many people not working in the same place at the same times or under any kind of production-oriented model.
However, I find it highly suboptimal for its intended use. It is exactly what I would expect from an open-source endeavor.
Glyfair said:Honestly, the only 3E/d20 character generator program I've seen that was simple and intuitive was the original software with the PHB. I'm not quite sure why Fluid moved away from the basic design concepts there to the hodgepodge that is ETools (even if it's my generator of choice).
From what they've said on various forums; they listened to people who hated the interface. It seemed to them that a lot of people hated the GUI and wanted something more like the Windows Interface. They listened to those people, and we got an Access database as a result.