Release Notes for PCGen v6.2.1

PCGen is a FREE Open Source character generator and maintenance program for role-playing games.

PCGen currently supports the d20 RPG system and includes data sets based upon gaming material from Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing and dozens of other publishers. The project's current focus is on gaming material released under Wizards of the Coast's Open Gaming License (OGL) and sources supporting the Pathfinder RPG by Paizo, but the PCGen team also works with publishers to get permission to include limited Closed Content as well. PCGen runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Unix/Linux using Java

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What's new for v6.2.1

PCGen v6.02.1 is a patch release to PCGen 6.2. This release includes 150+ bug fixes and improvements that we've made since the 6.2 production release. The highlights of the changes for PCGen 6.2.1 are listed below:

Main Changes:

New Sources

The following new sources were added in 6.2.1

For full details of the new changes in this release, see the Change Log .

James Dempsey for the PCGEN Team -- 15 March, 2014.

Installation

Prerequisites

Java 6 or Java 7. PCGEN 6.2.1 is not compatible with Java 1.5.x and it is NOT SUPPORTED. To get the latest version of Java, go to java.com. PCGen has been tested with both Java 6 (including OpenJDK) and Java 7.

Instructions

Please see the Installation Documentation for information about installing PCGen.

Read the doc!

Please make sure you read the docs to familiarize yourself with the changes. You can access it from docs/index.html located in the PCGen directory.

Download PCGen

Custom Data Sets

If you have custom data created using either the old LST Editor, or the my_dataset example files, it is very important that you read the Upgrading PCGen and Upgrading home brews before installing your new version of PCGen.

Thanks

Thanks to the following people who contributed to the PCGen 6.2.1 release: Andrew Wilson, Andrew Maitland, David R Bender, Don Peterson, Doug Limmer, Eric C Smith, Gabriel Sorrel, Gjorbjond, Henk Slaaf, Hunter Johnson, James Dempsey, Paul Grosse, Paul Shipley, Stefan Radermacher, Tom Parker and Vincent Lhote.

Thanks also to the many people who gave us feedback, reported bugs, contributed to the lists and helped other PCGen users out!

Want to Help?

PCGen is an open source project. Anyone who wants to contribute whether it is Java programming, data set programming, documentation, helping new users, general cat herding, massage, walking the dogs, etc. is very welcome.

If you want to help drop a mail to PR@pcgen.org or Content@pcgen.org, or simply post a message with the title "I Want To Help" in one of the mailing lists.

Useful Links

Change Log for 6.2.1

New Data Sources

New Code Features

New Data Features

New Token

New Documentation Feature

Code Bug Fixes

Data Bug Fixes

Documentation Bug Fixes