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I suppose this is more of a rant than anything else...
I first fell in love with the concept of character generators back in the days of 2nd Edition with my purchase of the AD&D Core Rules 2.0. It was awesome. It let me create characters, monster encounter tables, roll up treasure, add custom data (to a degree) and on top of it all...it looked good.
Because of that program, I've picked up several char gen programs for the d20 era of D&D and they hae left me lukewarm at best. E-tools was pretty good, nice look, could buy packs for it, etc it still wasn't as good as the old CR 2.0 though. RPGExplorer is another one I had high hopes for, I can't stand it.
How is it that almost 10 years later, with all of the advances in computers....no one can top the simple, good looking and extremely useful nature of CR 2.0? We're in a digital age of gaming these days and still it seems that the digital content sucks.
I still need to pick up the expansion pack for CR 2.0 though, and as a testament to its usefulness...the price is insane at most places.
Baaarrrrrfff
I don't know about you, but finding a good Char Generator has been probably the biggest pain in the butt. Especially when developing an epic character.
So my friends and I have developed a MS Word generator that works great. We have to make a MS Excel one for Epic Chars cause Word just maxed on the stuff we already stuffed it with lol
Other than that, all other generators have failed misrably, and being the cheap person I am, its hard for me to pay for anything anyways. So if Wizards offers anything other than their standard paper edition, I still doubt I would get it.
RPG Xplorer has been the best one for me so far to quickly get a character up and running, but that is for 3.5 . Also, I have a repository of stat blocks (1,234 and counting) for 3.5, so if you're in a hurry to find a bad guy, or a pregen character for a one-shot...:D
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RPG Xplorer has been the best one for me so far to quickly get a character up and running, but that is for 3.5 . Also, I have a repository of stat blocks (1,234 and counting) for 3.5, so if you're in a hurry to find a bad guy, or a pregen character for a one-shot...:D
You have one-two-three-four and counting? Five! Six, even!
Actually, silliness aside, why don't you remind our viewers at home of your URL, Lilith? :)
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RPG Xplorer has been the best one for me so far to quickly get a character up and running, but that is for 3.5 . Also, I have a repository of stat blocks (1,234 and counting) for 3.5, so if you're in a hurry to find a bad guy, or a pregen character for a one-shot...:D
I purchased RPG Xplorer, largely due to the Pathfinder packs, and I can't say I'm terribly impressed. It acts quirky on my comp, rather laggy, so I never really explored all the options with it. I didn't really care for the character sheets it made either.
I may look at it again though,I am running the occasional side game using 3.5e with the Gamemastery modules. I hear so much good about it, the lagginess is EXTREMELY irritating to me though. Anyone else have this problem with it?
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RPG Xplorer has been the best one for me so far to quickly get a character up and running, but that is for 3.5 . Also, I have a repository of stat blocks (1,234 and counting) for 3.5, so if you're in a hurry to find a bad guy, or a pregen character for a one-shot...:DYou have one-two-three-four and counting? Five! Six, even!
Actually, silliness aside, why don't you remind our viewers at home of your URL, Lilith? :)
Hey Mike, Are you asking about DMtools.org? The Dungeon Master's Friend? Because at DMTools, No Prep Time is No Problem!
I hear that there's a great Chatroom there, as well. Not that I would know anything about that...
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I purchased RPG Xplorer, largely due to the Pathfinder packs, and I can't say I'm terribly impressed. It acts quirky on my comp, rather laggy, so I never really explored all the options with it. I didn't really care for the character sheets it made either.
RPG Xplorer is fairly flexible in the character sheet department - the later versions have about 5 (I think - I could be wrong) choices now, some of them are not bad. If I ever find that elusive thing called Free Time, I may play around with it and see if I can make an aesthetically pleasing character sheet to go with RPGXplorer. You may try poking around the RPGXplorer forums for some alternate ideas.
I hear so much good about it, the lagginess is EXTREMELY irritating to me though. Anyone else have this problem with it?
I do, from what I understand the lagginess comes from the data it's trying to parse through. It has gotten faster in later versions, FWIW.
Edit: Thanks Cosmo & Mike for the website plugs! :D There are also 29 NPC requests, so if you want to try your hand at some character building, there they are. :)
E-Tools - originally put out by one vendor for WOTC, then supported by the awesome codemonkeypublishing.com - was top of the line until WOTC pulled their license a year ago (tomorrow actually).
PC's easy, Monster's easy, NPC's easy, Epic was easy, Item creation a cinch. New feats, new races, treasure generation.
Nothing beats it IMHO. Unfortunately they can't sell it anymore.