Next D20 update? - Page 3

chiefweasel · April 17th, 2011, 12:22 PM

I'm all for fixing existing problems for the Core material but the Core material is only the Players Handbook, DMs Guide, and Monster Manual. Unless LW gets a license with Wizards to put the other books online, they arent allowed to do so.

I fact reading through the OGL, i'm not entirely sure we as a user community are allowed to produce the files that we have done. Since the materials we have created, ie Complete Champion falls outside of the OGL, Wizards may have the right to force us to pull all the materials. I intend to talk to the Wizard folks at Gen Con this year and see what they say about this. But lets keep our fingers crossed.

bodrin · April 18th, 2011, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by chiefweasel

I'm all for fixing existing problems for the Core material but the Core material is only the Players Handbook, DMs Guide, and Monster Manual. Unless LW gets a license with Wizards to put the other books online, they arent allowed to do so.

I fact reading through the OGL, i'm not entirely sure we as a user community are allowed to produce the files that we have done. Since the materials we have created, ie Complete Champion falls outside of the OGL, Wizards may have the right to force us to pull all the materials. I intend to talk to the Wizard folks at Gen Con this year and see what they say about this. But lets keep our fingers crossed.

First looking at the posts upon Paizo about using stuff from wizards on fan sites they seem to following a legal stand point! It's product identity so cease and desist although they haven't brought any fan sites down but that's not to say they won't in the future.

Second I'm not bothered about the other books being officially entered I'd just like the increased functionality that is present in the Pathfinder system data as an update to Hero Lab!

The core material is the SRD just because three books are designated Core that doesn't exclude the other SRD material which includes Unearthed arcana OGL, Expanded Psionics, Epic Level, Savage Species, Deities and Demigods, Manual of the Planes and other ancillary books from original release.
Lone Wolf has slowed on the bug fixes to D20, due to work load of Pathfinder, and I understand that time is an issue but making the editor easier to use and nibbling at data input even over time ought to be occurring.

chiefweasel · April 18th, 2011, 07:09 AM

I totally agree the editor for d20 is a seperate and much more difficult beast from the PF editor. i would love to see a PF style editor for the d20 system.

But i dont believe LW is allowed to do any more book other then the ones that have already been done.

Sendric · April 18th, 2011, 07:12 AM

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But i dont believe LW is allowed to do any more book other then the ones that have already been done.

They should be allowed to do the Epic Level handbook since its part of the SRD. Regardless, I think people are just looking for bug fixes and an update so that functionality and editing more closely resemble Pathfinder.

ShadowChemosh · April 18th, 2011, 07:58 AM

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update so that functionality and editing more closely resemble Pathfinder.

Yea that would be nice. Not that I do allot in d20 vs Pathfinder but when I do it feels so outdated with less functionality.

bodrin · April 18th, 2011, 03:04 PM

ATM i'm running Age of Worms, a Dungeon magazine Adventure Path written by Paizo staff for D20 hence my push towards another update to the core files.

After the series is finished i'll be switching to Pathfinder, Carrion Crown AP, but i'll still be playing in The Savage Tide AP so i'll still require D20 support until that runs it's course.

I strongly believe that under the terms of the OGL license Lone Wolf can enter all the data contained here into hero lab.
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bodrin · September 22nd, 2011, 03:59 AM

Bump for an update to the core D20 stuff! It's been a while.

The pathfinder stuff is far easier to enter data for!

bodrin Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom Posts: 1,265 September 22nd, 2011, 03:59 AM	Bump for an update to the core D20 stuff! It's been a while. The pathfinder stuff is far easier to enter data for!
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