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zarlor
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Metairie, LA, USA
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Old March 9th, 2014, 03:37 PM
Yeah, there are times when the SW side of HL feels a little like the "red-headed stepchild" to Pathfinder. No doubt they make a lot more of their money there and have a lot more resources and even volunteers to hit those settings up pretty hard. Here we've just got a few of us mostly working volunteer and solo so it's definitely a bit slower. Once they're in we can usually get them fixed really quick, though.

Personally I find that despite SW being pretty easy to do things on paper with I still prefer using HL. I think one of the bigger barriers to getting more SW players to use it, though, used to be from a shortage of data files. Now we have almost all of the Pinnacle ones done, third party ones are trickier since it takes the third party folks and Lone Wolf to get an agreement in place, I think, so that's less of a barrier. The bigger one is making files or custom stuff on the fly, and that can be a bit trickier and a little intimidating to look at doing, I think. There are several of us here now who are pretty active on the forum and willing to help so maybe that won't be too much of a barrier either. I guess now it would be most helpful just to get more SW players buying Hero Lab to make sure this side of the house stays solidly on the Lone Wolf radar and not taking too much of a backseat to Pathfinder, I think. Just my 2 cents on it, and we all know how little that is worth in this economy.

P. S. I didn't mean to come off annoyed in my response, BTW, just trying to be informative. Sorry if I didn't come off that way, though.

Lenny Zimmermann
Metairie, LA, USA

Data files authored (please let me know if you see any issues with any of these if you have/use them):
Official (In the downloader)
50 Fathoms, Deadlands: Hell On Earth, Deadlands: Noir, East Texas University, Necessary Evil (requires Super Powers Companion), Pirates of the Spanish Main, Space 1889 (original file by Erich), Tour of Darkness, Weird War II, Weird Wars: Rome
Coming Eventually
Evernight (LWD has completed their review but I have some fixes to make first... although Pinnacle mentioned this might get an overhaul to SWADE so I may just wait for that first. If you just HAVE to have this now, though, just PM me)
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