However these threads while answering some questions did not and were not intended to discuss how OGL/d20 complience impacted PCgen functionality. Yes OGL/d20 were discussed heavily here, both in threads started by me and by Knightcrawler. I have been reading almost all the posts for about a year, and it is only since GenCon that the problems have come. Most of our audience doesn't care about the license - they simply want a place where they can give bug reports and other feedback, ask questions about functionality and not feel like their post gets lost in a lot of traffic that is tangential in nature at best.īryan, While I understand the need to keep your List focused on improving PCgen I still stand by feeling that this is place that has lost its friendly atmoshpere. If they want to discuss the fine points of the OGL/D20 license they could do so here or on the OGL mailing list. If people want to rant against Wotc in general we direct them to the message boards at. If you ever think that someone was stepped on unfairly or that a post was deleted unjustly or that a moderator or anyone else was out of line, please email me directly. It's stated clearly in our "Welcome" message that these topics have been beat to death and most users would prefer not to see another thread on those subjects. When that happens, those users get the same treatment - a warning and/or their post is deleted. Sometimes other users took our policy of stopping threads as open season on stepping on anyone who even came close to stepping over that line. The unfortunate side-effect is that sometimes a new user thinks that they're the first to go on a rant about what they think has been going on. I really don't like our having to play censor, and I'm hoping that in the near future this will calm down so we can stop moderating. We started off by asking/warning the frequent offenders about their behavior, but that had no impact, so we started invoking moderator priviledges. This traffic generally wasn't helpful with regards to our discussions with Wotc either - not that Wotc holds us directly responsible for everything that occurs on our boards, but I didn't want our board to denegrate into a hotbed of anti-Wotc sentiment. This started many flame-wars and bug reports and user questions were getting lost in all this traffic. For the past 4 weeks we've had a lot of users rant about the licenses - it varied from innocent queries about how it would be applied, to invectives against Wotc for "forcing" this upon us (nevermind that we made it clear that it was our choice!), to people suggesting lots of ways to covertly get around the restrictions by inventive rationalizations. I can understand why you might think it's a bit hostile due to our vigilant moderators. I like to think our board is generally quite friendly. Additionaly it was also mentioned that OT were no longer allowed (ok) but then the Moderator and certain select individuals are allowed to continue OT postings. Your post and mine would recieve a canned response and then the thread would either recieve 5-10 flames or be deleted. Many posters now reply to any violation of these dictates with flames and the new Moderator instantly shuts down and deletes any such messages preventing even constructive comments. We are no longer allowed to mention anything OGL/d20 related even if it has to do with functionality or anything that in even the slightest way is critical of WotC. The thing that has iritated me the most however is the new hostile attitude on thier message board. Also the loss of the experience table is anoying but same issue. Yes it is irritating not having dice rolling, but aparently anyone who does without special permision is in violation. Now that they are d20 complient they can begin negotiations to use non-SRD material. As a long time follower I am still willing to give it a little longer. Yes PCgen 4.0.0 is stripped down and has been since 3.0.
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