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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soulcatcher" data-source="post: 3277970" data-attributes="member: 5940">Might I suggest that the people with the power to change this ultimately are you the players?  If you start telling companies that you won't buy books that you can't get data for, that is the only way they will ever open up.IMHO, most of the WotC sources beyond the SRD are actually fairly unbalanced, and not well written (Especially the original splat books).  There is a world of open game material out there, most of it *better* the the WotC stuff.  Buy monty cook, buy silvan, buy fantasy flight, buy green ronin.  Use the fact that the real person in the market with power is you the consumer.  Tell WotC that you aren't buying their books because there are no character generator options for it, and choose to buy books that if not already in data form, are from companies that will allow someone to generate it from their sources.Even it it's not PCGen, many of these businesses *do* go out of their way to make their works available.  That means these companies treat their customers with more respect.  show them you appreciate it by using their rules in your games instead of the ones who treat their customers like they have no other place to go.YMMV, but I find my games are better without completely broken classes like the Warlock.  Just because WotC puts it out doesn't mean it's worth using in your game.Devon</blockquote>