Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 1736828" data-attributes="member: 16077">Yes - I'm still finding random errors in calculations of basic basic values (attack bonuses, skill synergy bonuses) - I assume it is probably an artifact from using the pre-PCGen3.0 .lst files run through the converter.So - CMP doesn't have a licensing agreement with WoTC that allows them to provide datasets as new books are published?  Pardon my french, but if that is the case, it seems like a crappy licensing agreement.  It would also lead me to speculate about the licensing agreement in whole - what kind of support will the end-user expect for older datasets?Well - I use primarily 2 chargens and a spell sheet generator.  None of them provides *all* the data I would like by themselves (hence, I use all 3).  PCGen has many varieties of output sheet, but, once again, it isn't perfect.  It is a heck of a lot easier to manipulate an Excel sheet than it is to manipulate an XML-based output sheet.So - will this SQLite DB be *easy* to manipulate by a user?  I want to be able to look at a data field and know what it is without needing a rosetta stone to decipher.How will the output creator work?  Will it be easy to use, or do I have to do a lot of work?Here's the thing - if something is free, I have no problems tinkering with it to fix the mistakes and make it work the way I want it to.On the other hand, if I'm paying money for it, I expect it to work (i.e. I'm not gonna do your beta-testing for you), and I expect it to be intuitively easy to manipulate.</blockquote>

Verification