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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RogerWilco" data-source="post: 4566956" data-attributes="member: 80384">I am not familiar with these Core Rules you talk about. I'm not sure if it was ever sold in the Netherlands. From what I can find on the internet, it did not contain a full character builder, but the information isn't very extensive.No, I said the opposite. I bought books (over 60 of 3/3.5E, I have about 8 of 2E), because I could get complete datasets to accompany them. I would only buy a book after CMP had announced that they were working on a dataset and then easgerly await its release. I stopped buying books after WotC pulled the plug on CMP.PcGen completely allows you to add the data yourself, and of course you can trade that with others. The thing is, that most material has WotC's copyright, so while you can, you would not be allowed to.What the SRD did, is allow for the developement of a good character building program, without violating any of WotC's copy right, and then have CMP (who maintained e-Tools), to also sell WotC sanctioned datasets for PCGen.To me it was the best of both worlds, as it made WotC and CMP money, saved me the time to enter the data myself, and allowed the PCGen team to make a free program that had all the needed functions, without violating any copyrights.I will just leave you with an example of a character I've built with the combination of PCGen and the WotC sanctioned CMP datasets:<a href="http://80.100.122.109:/enworld/Throvannon514.pdf" target="_blank">http://80.100.122.109:/enworld/Throvannon514.pdf</a>Please note that if you look at the spell list, it contains a complete list of all the spells of the books I own, with the correct DC's #dice, durations, and page number of where to find them. What is harder to spot, is that I can apply the effects of spells on the fly, the character above has Superior Reistance and Longstrider active for example.A good character building program just makes things so much easier. I liked the SRD 3.5, because it allowed the developement of one that I could use. It was free to boot. I had no qualms paying fo it though, as I have for the datasets. (I'm not sure if you legally need to if you also own the book, but I had no problem with CMP making some money of the huge effort they did in entering all this data).But please if, you have more information about this Core Rules program, and where I can download/buy it, then I'm interested to at least have a look at it, prefereably if it runs on Mac of course.The SRD also made other things easier, like making statblocks for all the monsters I can summon, as you can just C&P them from the SRD.</blockquote>

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