Yes I know it’s the same icon and that’s going to get fixed. It’s at the top next to the “New Character” button. Which version of PCGen did you use? The last two alpha’s have a very early stages of a random (but weighted) npc creator. Then again, +1 for “I always respond to email in rhyming verse.” Contact info on website.Īnd yes, you do have an awesome hobby! -1 for obfuscating your email, however. Wouldn’t it be great to have it auto-create basic NPCs for me. “Bah!” I say!Īnyway, for my system, all the data is kept in a wiki (TWiki wiki to be specific), or a text file for “secret” data, pumped through a monster Emacs script which outputs LaTeX. You either obeyed all the rules, or you used a piece of paper. I tried out PCGen a few times when trying to wedge the rules into Emacs was too discouraging, and I found PCGen was surprisingly inflexible. I’ve never posted it because the Emacs/D20/DND intersection appeared non-existent and the crowd on the DND newsgroups were all happy with PCGen, or some other windozy thing. Not much of that one is left in the current incarnation. I have an extensive character sheet generator I wrote in Emacs which I’ve been using since. I’ve often been surprised at how little DND software there is for Emacs. Try and reimplement something like it in Emacs? Perhaps it would make more sense to reimplement something like it on the web (using Perl). Unfortunately, it is written in visual basic, as far as I can tell, and thus only runs on Windows. NPC Designer, on the other hand, is just what I need. It knows the rules, and it prints a nice character sheet, but it doesn’t generate the NPCs for me. Update: It turns out that PC Gen is not what I want. I freely admit that the Java part is not enouraging. PCGen runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Unix/Linux using Java 1.4/1.5. The project’s current focus is on OGL games (OGL is Wizards of the Coast’s Open Gaming License). It currently is aimed at supporting as many RPGs as is humanly possible. PCGen is a character generator for role-playing games. What spells to pick? I’ll have to take a look at PCGen: Even if I pick very simple rules like the M20 rules, magic users remain tricky. When creating non-player characters in my games, I often feel hassled by all the rules.
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