![]() ![]() In seconds it was up while eTools was still plodding around in the background waiting to load.īoth games use somewhat archaic icons for making a new character. Campaign Suite boots up much faster than eTools. I uninstalled it though and it did leave behind the icons and shortcuts. I'm using a HP 2.0 gig, 512 ram, 64 vram 80 gig hard drive. While both do more than that, to be honest, that's what I'm going to use them the most for. This review is going to focus on eTools and Campaign Suite in terms of character creation. Campaign Suite characters can be saved and loaded easily, and printed out in the custom character sheet designed specifically for the programs use. Whole adventuring companies could be populated in just a few minutes with Campaign Suite. The smooth interface allows for graphical drag-and-drop within the Windows environment, so you can have many characters and worlds being edited at once for you to switch through. New items and spells can be added on the fly, or you can limit them for what you want your characters to use if you are running the game. With the race-based random name generator you can have a living, breathing Player or Non-Player character with the touch of a few buttons.Ĭampaign Suite is integrated with the campaign and world designer to let you create custom races and characters, build dungeons, and design whole towns for you or your characters to explore. ![]() Levels can be gained or removed, spent per class level. It is fully featured to handle any number of classes and prestige class, with unique and smooth Multi-class handling. Would you like to help add things to PCGen? We take all kinds of help.Campaign Suite lets you create from scratch characters for use within the rule-structure of the d20 Game. Is there something you’d like to see added to PCGen? You can tell us. You can look at our GitHub to see what we’ve been working on recently. New features and new data are being added all the time. If you don’t have a computer at your game session, you can print your character sheet on paper and take that with you. If you are going to be away for a game session, you can email the GM a PDF copy of your character sheet. It doesn’t need a fast computer, either – PCGen will probably work on any PC made in the last ten years. PCGen works on all PCs – Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. PCGen is put together by volunteers and distributed free of charge. There is an active community of home-brewers creating things for PCGen, so there’s lots of help available if you need it. Tutorials for data creation are included in every copy of PCGen. The data files are text-based and don’t need any special tools to edit. Have you created some unique stuff for your game? You can code that “home-brew” data into PCGen. ![]() In addition to core rulebook support, PCGen comes with as many source books as we have permission to include. It’s flexible enough to support other game systems, too. PCGen is compatible with the core rulebooks of Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e, d20 Modern, and Pathfinder. ![]() PCGen also knows how to calculate the cost of equipment, your carrying capacity, and all the other things that come up during character creation and play. PCGen knows how to calculate your character’s numerical bonuses, even when you have complicated stacking bonuses and situational modifiers. PCGen helps you to create legal character builds, by keeping track of the pre-requisites for classes, feats, spells, and so on.ĭid your GM give you a feat the rules say you shouldn’t qualify for? No problem – you can bypass the pre-requisites, and give yourself the feat anyway. Want to see what it looks like? Screenshots. PCGen even gives you an initiative tracker for running combat encounters, and places to write the NPC’s back stories and history. You can have many sheets open at the same time. PCGen helps GMs keep track of the creatures and NPC’s in the world. PCGen knows all about the rules, so it keeps you from making common mistakes. PCGen helps players create characters, quickly and correctly. PCGen makes it easier to build and keep track of RPG characters, so you can spend less time on character sheets and more time playing the game. ![]()
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