Master To... er... D&D E-Tools. Is anyone actually going to buy it?

[reveal]

Is anyone going to buy this thing?

$30?! For a character generator?! I don't believe....

 

[EricNoah]

Well I hope you get a chance to check it out or read reviews before you decide.

Oh and of course, I'm moving this to Software....

 

[planespace]

i think i'd have to be able to download a demo before i bought this thing. is one available? if so, has anyone tried it?

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I'll certainly look at it. pcGen is interesting, but not terribly user friendly (even after GUI changes) and it seems to be a very fast moving target; I could download it today and there's be three updates by Friday. On one hand, that's good, on the other, I'd like them to just finish the dang thing and leave it be for a minute!

I get enough pointless change at work.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Eric has seen it, I do believe!

I think I will be picking it up. would like to see some screenshots and see a review but I think I will find a use for it and the prices is about what the market is.

 

[annadobritt]

I would have to use a demo first before I'd pay for it. RPM is a good program, combined with Jamis Buck's generators.

 

[Garmorn]

I am going to buy it. From what I have found out for the average user there is little over lap between it and PCgen. Several things I need to do I cant with PCgen with out spending hours learning new skills that I won't use any where else. I suspect that for at least the first year or so I will be using both. One for some things and the other for other things. Besides $30 is just one night out for my family at a fast food and we will all use it quite abit.

 

[machine]

Is anyone going to buy this thing?

$30?! For a character generator?! I don't believe....

I will. For me, character building is the longest part of the game.

HERO System has, IMO, the longest character build up but anything that will help with D&D, especially 'official products' will be great.

PCGen is a nice program but runs a little slow on my laptop and it did take awhile to figure it out. I like RPM but it is very confusing to use without docs and I don't need a combat manager. For combat, I use an MSExcel spreadsheet and the data sort functions.

D&D E-Tools could be a very good thing for me.

Have a great day!

machine.

 

[bushfire]

Yep, I am going to buy it as soon as it comes out. Probably be able to get it for around $25 discounted. Remember that $29.99 is the "retail" price. Get it from somewhere other than Wotc.

This is less than the cost of most hardback D20 books and close to the cost of many of the rest of the D20 books. I will definetly get more use out of "ET" than any of the Moongoose books

Probably the most useful thing that ET will have will be the ability to add classes and HD advancement to monsters, then spit out stat blocks. This is something that no other program does well. RPM comes close though. Actually the Monster Gen part of ET has me more geeked than the Char Gen.

And not to slam PCGen (because I haven't looked at this weeks update ), but ET *has* to be easier to use than PCGen.

 

[Leopold]

And not to slam PCGen (because I haven't looked at this weeks update ), but ET *has* to be easier to use than PCGen.

as a code monkey for them i will probably agree with you. PCGen may not be the easiest program to use but it sure has gotten a TON simpler to do now. Granted we don't have the pretty gui and all the lil bells and icons. But what we lack in style we make up for in quantity. We (unlike wotc) have more than 20 publishers that have freely given us permission to put in their material. So if you wanted to build that wookie half-fiend jedi from deadlands, you could. Your half-elf shadowdance needs a pulse rifel? no problem!


with new documentation coming out soon (end of next month) we will make it a whole lot easier to get around the program. Will Etools do it simpler and prettier yes, I will not doubt it one bit.