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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1714725" data-attributes="member: 158">OK, here's the rundown:E-Tools originally supported 3E, not 3.5; I THINK, but am unsure, that the 3.5 core rules are IN E-tools if you update them now. PCGen has the 3.5 SRD (not yet on the new psionics 3.5 rules, they are working on it) built-in, but these are NOT the 3.5 core rules, they are what is in the SRD (which is to say, that's the 99% of the rules stuff that's not considered intellectual property). If you want anything BUT the core rules, you need to buy data sets from Codemonkey publishing. These data sets are made by CMP, licensed from WotC, and contain the ACTUAL rules stuff (you'll get bigby's hand spells, you'll get yuan-ti, etc.). You can buy data sets for E-tools, you can buy data sets for PCGen, OR you can buy bundles of both. Each data set is reasonably cheap, about $1.50 to $5.00 per book, depending on the book's size, and they do sell bundles for related books. For instance, the old Sword& FIst/Tome & blood/ Defenders of the faith/ etc. 5 splatbooks they sell in a bundle for $10.00.In BOTH programs, you can customize the data - you COULD enter those splatbooks yourself - but you are paying CMP for the service of buying these things already typed in and done, and they are licensed IP, too, so you get the complete stuff without having bare-bones SRD stripped rules.Hopefully that makes it clearer. CMP is adding data sets all the time, and they are working If I recall correctly on a NEW version of E-tools, written from the ground up, but that is a long-term project. As of the last patch, E-tools is a pretty awesome program, I hear tell - it's just that you'll want the data sets if you use a lot of extra splat books and supplements.As for Complete Warrior, Unearthed Arcana, etc. I don't know if they have those data sets released yet, so you would need to check their website catalog to see.</blockquote>

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