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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 2314519" data-attributes="member: 5100">They've got screenshots, which is still better than the new toy from CMP (forget the name).  I agree, though, that I'd like to see a demo, even if it's totally gimped. What's being shown looks pretty sweet, though.  I showed the add to my group, and every person in it said, basically, "If someone actually puts out an easy to use, totally customizable (rules-wise) game tool, I'll buy it."  You have to understand that my group is cheap, too. Three things I'm hoping: Most importantly, I hope this thing will handle variant rules, like from Unearthed Arcana, especially spell points, armor as DR, a heavily modified class defense, buying off ECL, and bloodlines.  Being able to relatively easily input things like the Warlock are a must, too.  I don't care if I have to add the changes myself.  I just want the ability to do so. The second thing is that I hope we aren't locked into the large icon view that is shown on the screenshots and that they seem to be hyping.  IMO, this is a value-subtracted feature.  I don't like large icons in any application and use hacks to reduce them.  When I'm doing things like adding armor, spells, and feats to my character or viewing the character, I absolutely, positively want to be able to see columns of data.  Period.  I will not buy this product if I cannot turn off the large icons. The final thing is a nice, printable character sheet.  We use paper at the table.  HeroForge has a great character sheet (as in, it is the standard by which other print-outs shall be judged, in my group), and I hope the RPGXplorer has a similar one.  Things like the skills running off the bottom of the page in some of PCGen's sheets are just not acceptable.  PCGen has enough functionality that the sheets balance it out at the price (free), but I would not pay $5 for a product that didn't come with better sheets, out of the box.  This is actually one of the major things that has kept PCGen as an option of last resort for my group -- put all the bells you want into data entry/storage you want, the value of the tool is ultimately determined by how well you can access that data when you need it. Harsh criticism?  Maybe.  I'm just tired of not having any worthwhile tools out there to help me.  I actually do appreciate the huge amount of work the various workers have put into the free products out there.  I'm at the point, though, where I want (almost need) a commercial quality character/campaign tool.  If someone actually put out something of sufficient quality and utility, I would happily drop $100 for it. So, consider this an open and honest statement of need from a customer who is guaranteed to be making the ultimate decision about which tool will be used by a half-dozen people. RPGXplorer looks like it could fit the bill.  I certainly hope it does.  I'd like to see a demo of this and screenshots/demo for RPGT so that I could make a more educated guess on how to spend my time now (should I continue plugging in data for PCGen?).</blockquote>

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