PCGen 2.4.0 Released

[Leopold]

PCGen is a java character generator and maintenance
program aimed at supporting all d20 games such as D&D
Third Edition, Star Wars, and others. All datafiles
are ASCII so they can be modified by users. An XML conversion is underway.

Here's the list of Bugs that have been fixed and
features that have been added. If you reported one of
these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is available at
http://pcgen.sourceforge.net, and the main discussion
group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen. Be
sure to download both parts of PCGen... pcgen240.zip
(the app itself) and data240.zip (the data files).

We've got some OS-specific installs of PCGen to help
those who have trouble installing the generic version.At
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate PCGen Releases/
you will find a list of these releases which you can
use if you have trouble with the version you find
here. Please note that there alternate versions are
updated by users, so there may be some time lag
between when an official release comes out and when
the alternate OS-specific release is ready.

Bugs
498762 Entertain bonus not added
504181 monte cook ranger feats
498730 Small size Armor AC is incorrect
497646 Loading files
504050 Charm Monster in Psionics Powers
503111 Prestige Class Problems
503586 Shadow Adept
503349 Can't become Sith?
497990 Problem with War Wizard
502791 Incorrect Data 2.3.9
500660 Spells not appearing for Necromancy
499833 Repost of [ #497895 ] Typos for spell...
499479 Distinguishing Domain Spells II
502150 Domains: Non-Divine caster problems
503191 War Domain with None deity not working
498554 Domain tag appears to be broken
501336 Eldritch Might Spell Lists
500741 Text Template and Sunless Citadel
493545 Wildcard skill bonuses not working
502423 PREGENDER requirement not working
502539 Bard feat "extra music" Song&silence
502533 MotP Prestige Classes
502555 shot on the run: prerequisite incorrect
501749 Help-Docs links wrong, file supplied
500920 Assigning Bane of (any) to custom weapon
496502 Repost of [#490378 ] Multiple domains
493941 Non-prof penalty in NATURALATTACKS
502161 Can't load monsters with Weapon Finesse
502018 PoolRadianceequipwondrous.lst
497910 Incorrect calculation of attack bonus
499770 Thrown dagger
501671 Docs menu item generates incorrect URL

Features
495297 Equipment VFEAT:tag
504605 Add support for a PREDEITYDOMAIN tag
501372 Let user to add a skill to Class Skills
463609 BONUS:COMBAT|AC|value|prereq
504602 Add PREDEITYALIGN tag
503671 Remove obsolete field from Spells
462757 Deity favored weapon Any
448757 Way to restrict BONUS tags
450145 Add BONUS & CHOOSE tags in deity.lst
442483 Spells Known For Divine Casters
419407 Allow ADD:Spellcaster to restrict class
456743 ADD:SPELLCASTER
504085 Improve ARMOR tokens
503642 |LANGUAGES,<BR>|
503648 New Filters to hide parts of csheet
503479 Additional damage bonus for Off-hand
502190 COUNT[SPELLSKNOWN%class.%level]
503135 Support for MultiLine DESC and BIO tags
503023 Remove obsolete field from skill.lst
502507 Secondary/Sub Region selection
498603 Swim skill weight carried penalty
502092 View Selected/Avail Feats mode different

The PCGen Development Team

 

[grmbrand]

Rock On

For those of you who haven't tried PCGen yet; it is an absolutely state-of-the-art character generation tool. Not as slick looking as WotC's CharGen, but infintely more powerful and flexible. Rock on, guys.

 

[Leopold]

Re: Rock On

For those of you who haven't tried PCGen yet; it is an absolutely state-of-the-art character generation tool. Not as slick looking as WotC's CharGen, but infintely more powerful and flexible. Rock on, guys.

thanks for the bump. we are working hard to impliment as much as we can into pcgen as quickly as we can. It's been a rough road but we are trudging onward!

 

[piaw]

any plans to improve the UI?

It's pretty darn unusable as it stands. I'd like to see at least a "Core Rules only" mode so I don't have to scroll through Celestials and other (N)PC options that I rarely use. Good grief!

 

[piaw]

any plans to improve the UI?

It's pretty darn unusable as it stands. I'd like to see at least a "Core Rules only" mode so I don't have to scroll through Celestials and other (N)PC options that I rarely use. Good grief!

 

[GrassyKnoll]

Does the new version now support the ipaq PCGEn viewer? As I could never export the character to that format.

 

[grmbrand]

Re: any plans to improve the UI?

It's pretty darn unusable as it stands. I'd like to see at least a "Core Rules only" mode so I don't have to scroll through Celestials and other (N)PC options that I rarely use. Good grief!

Perhaps you should spend a few minutes familiarizing yourself with this product before you form your opinions. Otherwise you would know that the option you desire exists on the first screen of the software...

 

[okuth0r]

1. if you look at the software it clearly lables all information you can choose as a source. If you choose everything, of course youll get a astounding amount of options. try again with just the Wotc players handbook, it will look a lot better.
2. the pcenview is something kind of new, i myself just started useing it. the one i use is for the palm os, ans is a astounding piece of software. if you need help with it or its companion for the CE os im sure thier developers would help.
3.PcGen is a ever developing piece of software that has many complaints of being not user friendly. Tell us what to change, either post on here a reccomendation of how to change it. or on the yahoo group. There are those of us who love the program and what it can do, it is a very powerfull too, and if there is anything that we can do let us know.

 

[d20Gurus.com]

Also of note, We just finished interviewing Bryan McRoberts, the Chief Code Manager for PCGen, over at www.d20gurus.com

Check it out, he has alot of neat things to say regarding how he sees the future and this program.

 

[dpdx]

I've pretty much removed this post - It seems I wasn't even talking about the same program as this thread. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

That'll teach me to open my mouth...