PCGen help anyone?

[Arkamon]

Ok, I have been playing D&D now for 21 years, love it, will continue for many longer, I play 2.0/3.5. Up until now I have been using nothing but hand drawn character sheets, which has been great, love it, cant beat the feel of putting that much more of yourself into a character. However, with a new surge of gamers joining my group and many of them going digital, using laptops and such, we have been looking for a good Char gen system and have all settled on PCGen. Dont much care for any of the others, DM/PlayerGenie is out and many others as well.

So here's my question, Where on earth can i get more data sets for PCGen??? I have seen a few threads here and there on the forums about this topic and none, at least that i can find, have answered adequately. I don't want to spend time programming "homebrews" into the thing, I am not a coder/proger or anything of that nature. I would just like to find some links to download some data sets that will give access to classes in some of the other books, such as complete arcane and others. I have also looked and searched every combination i can think of on google to find/download/torrent/etc these, and have turned up nothing. The yahoo groups i have seen also don't provide what I am looking for either.

I'm not, by any means, asking for something for nothing, I am willing to pay/donate/etc to get these data sets, the people who programmed them are far more than due their just rewards, but I don't know anything about creating homebrew stuff on the program, and I need these fairly soon, so i dont have extra time to learn to do it, then more time to do every class that we use.

So, anyone have any links or anything for me please? It would be much appreciated!

 

[Papa-DRB]

Wizards of the Coast did not designate the Complete xxx books as Open Content so there is no legal way to obtain the data (omitting long back story about CMP and the expired license). Sorry.

I know you said that you don't want to write the lst files yourself, but if you change your mind, the Yahoo group: PCGenListFileHelp : PCGen List File & Documentation Help is the place to ask questions on how, and you can get answers there.

-- david
Papa.DRB
PCGen groups moderator

 

[Jan van Leyden]

Oh, there have been commercial data sets for WotC stuff in the past. The company Code Monkey Publishing had a license deal with WotC allowing them to produce those sets for both e-tools and PCGen.

Sadly, this deal has ended several years ago. CMP must not sell this stuff anymore.

Wouldn't it suffice for your personal needs to code only the needed elements? Granted, coding a whole book is a lot of work, but single items the characters have selected are manageable.

Several parts, like spells, are rather easy to create, and the PCGen community over at yahoo! are very supportive.

Furthermore I've heard that the coders are making progress with the LST-file editor (the tool for adding stuff inside PCGen), so one might be able to avoid hand-coding in Notepad.