Saturday, August 22, 2015

[pcgen] Re: Advanced bestiary and Ultimate Evil?

 

the main reason I'm bringing these up is that i made a bunch of stuff using the srd and then i got SUPER excited about pcgen (I've been using it for about a week now) and was getting ready to transfer alot of my stuff over to PCGen when i discovered that there wasn't support for all the basic paizo stuff on the main website  I totally understand that you guys put in A LOT of work and that programming isn't easy (I have done some C++ in the past) and since I am not actively contributing to PCGen i really don't have the right to say anything, but in my honest opinion i don't think it looks particularly good to new users when the basic paizo stuff on the website isn't accessible for in PCGen. I apologize if I am offending anybody, that is not my intent. If i were to outline the major issues I've encountered since starting using PCGen just from a newcomers perspective, I would say the following (not to say i don't love PCGen, i do! i think its the best thing since canned bread and the internet)
1. Archetypes- (in particular i noticed the sorcerer ones) from the same website are lacking
2. Mythic Adventures- can't figure out how this works for the life of me, doesn't seem to be a way to give my character mythic tiers, or attain spell slots over 9 though i do see that they exist
3. Optional Rules- in particular the advanced race rules for race building just don't seem to work last i tried them, it just doesn't apply the stuff to the character instead it still wants me to pick a normal race

4. Gods- this is kinda a big one. there doesn't seem to be a way to sort out the dieties into stuff like evil and good, or to get a basic description. also some things are REALLY confusing. for example one of the traits for character creation needs you to worship one of the elemental lords, however no diety is clearly labeled as an elemental lord, so it wont let me take that trait. eventually i just gave up on it.

If its ok i would be happy to write up a list of sources from the srd wiki that would need to be added to get all the base classes and PrCs on PCGen. I just really think PCGen is awesome but from the viewpoint of the uninitiated when you see that it lacks so much of the SRD it makes you feel kinda limited i guess... Idk, i barely know what i'm talking about feel free to ignore me lol

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