I was wondering if there was ever anything with the staff about entering their Dungeon information into PCGen for download?
Salcor
Some of the prestige classes and feats from Dragon where part of the PC gen files a long time ago (PC Gen version 3.x). They where all removed at the request of WotC (who at that time owned and published both magazines). I think it would be safe to say that the current publishers have the same stance towards including content form current issues in PC Gen
It could be a handy feature to provide for subscribers though... Lots of work, unfortunately, but it would make that kind of Dragon and Dungeon material a lot more useful...
Just my 2 pennies. :-)
Some of the prestige classes and feats from Dragon where part of the PC gen files a long time ago (PC Gen version 3.x). They where all removed at the request of WotC (who at that time owned and published both magazines). I think it would be safe to say that the current publishers have the same stance towards including content form current issues in PC Gen
Which is rather unfortunate. I consider PCGen to be one of my most valuable resources. With it I can throw together a complicated villian very quickly and its a whole lot of fun to boot. Its really entertaining to sit there leveling up a Troll Cleric or some such.
Its unfortunate that WOTC has not shown more willingness to support these people. They are very clear in their notes that one of their goals is to help the parent company sell more books (by supporting something like the Ninja - but not providing enough explanation for what is going on - hence forcing the user to get their hands on the actual written material to make sense of everything) hence creating a win-win situation for everyone. I'm not sure why WOTC won't play along.
I hope they change their minds as I have so far avoided making any really complex baddies but there will come a itime when I want to make a Kobold Scout/Ninja uber commando to harras my party with and then I will have to go back to doing this manualy. I don't want to do that any more then I want to give up my word processor and write my adventures out on lined paper. Once one is shown something cool and advanced its fard to go back.
First, I'm a developer on the PCGen project. Second, let me thank you on the name of the team for the kind words. :-)
Having PCGen data files for the adventures in Dungeon would be cool, that is true - but there are difficulties. As you said, we can only distribute data files for sources that are either Open Gaming Content (like the SRD files) or where we have special agreements with certain publishers. Now Dungeon adventures often use material which is from the core rules but not part of the SRD (like, for example, Kuo-Toas or Mind Flayers or Red Wizards of Thay and so on) or form other non-open source like Forgotten Realms Sourcebooks. A data set for such an adventure would then need data sets for these sources to work correctly, which we could not distribute.
Then, of course, someone would need to code up the data sets, which is no small feat in itself.
So, while this would really be a cool thing to have, I'm afraid it's currently not practicable, and we'll all be forced to make up the data for ourselves :(