What's up with PCGen???

[TheAuldGrump]

We make the log of the BoD meeting public now. They can be found here. As you can see, we have 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9 and 11/16 up.

Okay, I see my information for that was, umm, a bit dated shall we say? My bad.

Arbitration? That's not been mentioned before. *goes off to think*

Arbitration is often a good idea when folks get all riled up. An outside party can often tell both sides to sit down and shut up and/or rephrase things in a more diplomatic fashion. If I recall properly Chaosium (or at least one of its people) once arbitrated between GDW and R. Talsorian over some cyberpunk IP. Cheaper and less likely to leave lasting trauma (ie shark, I mean lawyer, bites) than a lawsuit. Especially if both parties really want to work things out. (Which I think is the case here.)

Personally I am also worried about how WotC is going to handle PCGen dropping the D20 in order to have die rolling available. Everything may be fine, but I just have a feeling of unease... On the other hand not allowing the program to roll stats was just plain silly!

The Auld Grump - by the way the combined PCGen and GMGen was huge!

 

[herald]

Actually, funny enough, we didn't go to WotC to ask to fix e-Tools. They asked us. Specifically Anythony Valterra (when he was still there).

Bryan and I had gone to WotC headquarters to 'pitch' PCGen to try and get the non-OGL stuff back into PCGen... Before we had that meeting, we had a pleasant dinner/evening with several publishers (Can't rem the place, but they had a kicking ceeg-arr room. )... During the Dinner Anthony asked me if I thought we could fix e-Tools. Without a heartbeat passing I said yes. Silly me

After he wandered away, then I had to pick up my jaw from the ground... Gadzooks, if I'd know then what I know now about that code base... *shudder*

I'd probably still have said yes, but I would've had a lot less surprises in store for me and for the coders that try to untangle that spaghetti!

But regardless of who came to who, we still wound up with fixing it (to the best of the capability it can handle at any rate)... And yes, CMP is a licensee of WotC, has to be, not just for the data set permissions, but to even work on e-Tools.

There's been a lot of flack directed at CMP, a lot of people not understanding the differences, but we've tried to make it clear to people... all people need to do is ask a question. We're perfectly willing to answer anything that doesn't touch on internal company affairs (contracts, accounting, the usual company private stuff).

I stand corrected, but the intent of my post remains the same.

There is no shame in collecting compensation for the work you do.

Keep up the good work guys.

 

[Mynex]

Personally I am also worried about how WotC is going to handle PCGen dropping the D20 in order to have die rolling available. Everything may be fine, but I just have a feeling of unease... silly!

I can't speak on WotC's behalf, but the general feeling I get is that it's a non-issue with them. *shrug* My perception on matters, but I think if it was a concern they would have said something, even in passing by now.

Regardless of what people think of em, WotC has actually been pretty cool about things.. maybe not laid back But at least not spastic.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I can't speak on WotC's behalf, but the general feeling I get is that it's a non-issue with them. *shrug* My perception on matters, but I think if it was a concern they would have said something, even in passing by now.

Regardless of what people think of em, WotC has actually been pretty cool about things.. maybe not laid back But at least not spastic.

Heh! That's cool. I may just being paranoid... It wouldn't be the first time. 'Course they waited til Gen Con last time.... (Though now you probably have a bit more of an on going relationship with them... they might be a little more likely to contact you now to let you know ahead of time.)

The Auld Grump, the nice thing about paranoia is that you can share!