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<blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 371013" data-attributes="member: 649">I've not looked into TableSmith before, though I've been meaning to.Taking a look at their *.tab files, the formats are extremely similar. The only thing I didn't see in the tables I looked at (and I haven't read the documentation) is something akin to the square bracket function Maraxle offers, where inline you can say:Look[er]and have it produce &quot;Look&quot; half the time and &quot;Looker&quot; half the time. TS also appears to take the odds from a different perspective, making it slightly harder to change the odds of something coming up. For example in (from what I can see in the layout) TS if you had this:1, Wood2-4, Metal5, Fire6, EarthAnd you wanted to increase the odds of &quot;Wood&quot; coming up by one you'd need to renumber all of the other elements to:1-2, Wood3-5, Metal6, Fire7, EarthWhereas in NameGen you'd have started with:WoodMetal (3)FireEarthand to increase the odds on &quot;Wood&quot; by one you'd just add a &quot;(2)&quot; behind its name.Other than that they look extremely similar (and of course all of this from a guy who's never uses TS, so I could be completely wrong).Oh, and I couldn't install NameGen on my WinME computer (either version of NameGen), but I had not problem under Win2k, so something's funky there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 371013, member: 649"] I've not looked into TableSmith before, though I've been meaning to. Taking a look at their *.tab files, the formats are extremely similar. The only thing I didn't see in the tables I looked at (and I haven't read the documentation) is something akin to the square bracket function Maraxle offers, where inline you can say: Look[er] and have it produce "Look" half the time and "Looker" half the time. TS also appears to take the odds from a different perspective, making it slightly harder to change the odds of something coming up. For example in (from what I can see in the layout) TS if you had this: 1, Wood 2-4, Metal 5, Fire 6, Earth And you wanted to increase the odds of "Wood" coming up by one you'd need to renumber all of the other elements to: 1-2, Wood 3-5, Metal 6, Fire 7, Earth Whereas in NameGen you'd have started with: Wood Metal (3) Fire Earth and to increase the odds on "Wood" by one you'd just add a "(2)" behind its name. Other than that they look extremely similar (and of course all of this from a guy who's never uses TS, so I could be completely wrong). Oh, and I couldn't install NameGen on my WinME computer (either version of NameGen), but I had not problem under Win2k, so something's funky there. [/QUOTE]

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