So you're stuck with us Monkeys for a long time to come yet. We're not going anywhere, we're not folding shop and running away, RPG Foundry isn't dead and neither are we. As much as we can tell, anyway, because of NDAs. No punches pulled, no lies, just the plain, painful truth. Those are the highlights of things, as we can tell them to you. When we do, we'll release it as a standalone, "alpha test," unsupported application for folks. We're looking at making a slightly higher-functioning converter (though it still won't ever be perfect) available that will at least get the data massaged in such a manner that it's usable in RPG Foundry from PCGen and e-Tools. we're revisiting that option given the new circumstances. But it's still a monkey-ugly conversion with lots of work needing to be done to massage that data into RPG Foundry format, so we've been saying we weren't going to do any type of converter to release to folks because of those reasons. Some of you may remember that we said we were basing our initial data sets for RPG Foundry by importing our PCGen files, since they were text and easier to manipulate. I'm sure some of you are wondering by now if this is going to impact RPG Foundry in any way, so let's address that. ![]() You'll still be able to download the files that you've previously purchased (all data, the e-Tools Program itself, the Interactive Adventures and the Fantasy Grounds data sets) until that date. We'll still be doing updates, bug fixes, etc on both the e-Tools and PCGen data sets. but when we can say more we will!Īs a final note on data sets: The "2 years of support" will officially begin as of December 1, 2006, and end December 1, 2008. We'll be continuing to sell Bastion Press product PDFs and we're working with a few of our other publisher partners to sell their PDFs as well.Īnd we've got a few other things "in the works" that we can't detail just yet. ![]() In the next cycle of releases/updates (later this month) we'll finally be revising our PCGen data sets to support PCGen Stable Production Release 5.10.1! Testing was finally concluded without any major changes (primarily to game modes settings since PCGen code changed a few things there - more details/comments at release time on this) and all is looking good. We can't say who at this time since negotiations are ongoing, of course, but we think people will be pleased. We're working on adding several other publishers to our list for PCGen and RPG Foundry data set creation, and not just for the D20 system! And things are looking good there. So for those products there will be a free data exchange option for RPG Foundry-format data sets from original e-Tools and/or PCGen purchases. We have (so far!):īastion Press and Zeitgeist Games have agreed to allow for our original RPG Foundry Data Swap. So for a couple months we'll be producing and selling data sets for PCGen, only, until RPG Foundry is out.īut not all is "doom and gloom" around the Zoo! So here's the silver lining on those black clouds. ![]() And we were basically done with e-Tools, anyhow. We had three new data sets for release this month, but that's not happening now as Wizards won't approve them at this stage. Which is not as big an issue as e-Tools was at the end of its life cycle, anyway. This does, however, also mean no more e-Tools program sales. We will still be producing data sets for them, and in fact we're working on adding a few other publishers to the list of those we do business with in order to bring even more data sets to you guys and gals. We're not! This has no impact on our other publishers. That does not mean that we're going out of business. (And, yes, that does mean that all RPG Foundry data set pre-orders will be canceled and refunded.) No data sets for e-Tools, PCGen or RPG Foundry. What this means in simple terms is that as of December 1st there will be no Wizards of the Coast products available for sale from us. Whether this means 4th Edition is looming, they're doing things in house, or they've decided to give a license to someone else, we simply don't know. Then, after speaking with our contact at-length, we got this explanation: "Because of Future Product Considerations." Wizards of the Coast has declined to extend our agreement, initially citing no reason. Without preamble or holding anything back it's pretty simple:Įffective November 30th, we will no longer hold license with Wizards of the Coast to produce data sets of any kind for any program. ![]() I am not selling a new copy of the program I am selling my copy. While these sets were manuafactured I purchased them legally. Here's the press release where they lost the right to continue to sell new copies of the datasets.
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