Pcgen VS Hero Lab

Pcgen

PCGen is an open source character generator for role-playing games.

Hero Lab

Award-winning character management software for RPGs.

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2021-10-28

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Hero Lab - 5th Edition SRD: Full Review

Category Popularity

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Hero Lab

Game Engine

67 67%

Game Engine

33% 33

Online Services

79 79%

Online Services

21% 21

Online Games

0 0%

Online Games

100% 100

Tool

100 100%

Tool

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Pcgen seems to be a lot more popular than Hero Lab. While we know about 28 links to Pcgen, we've tracked only 1 mention of Hero Lab. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Pcgen mentions (28)

It would be awesome if someone made a mod to turn WotR into a character builder for PF1E TTRPG
There are already character builders to PnP Pathfinder like PCGen and Pathbuilder 1e. Or are you talking about modding WotR for managing a PnP campaign? That's a much bigger ask, since there aren't really any dev-supported tools for user-generated content the way, say, Neverwinter Nights did. Source: 10 months ago
PCGen v.6.09.06 Released!
I jumped onto their website http://pcgen.org and a comment says they're looking into it. 6.09.06 has a problem, 6.09.05 does not. Source: over 1 year ago
Does Pathfinder have a site in the same way that D&D has D&D Beyond??
If it's for 1e, though it isn't web-based and looks like a programme from the 90s, I swear by PCGen as the best character builder by far. Source: over 1 year ago
How To: Learn Pathfinder 1e
PCGen is free, open source, and reasonably complete. Source: over 1 year ago
The D&D Beyond equivalent to Pathfinder
It looks like a programme from the 90s, but if you're referring to 1e, I swear that PCGen is by far the best character builder. Source: over 1 year ago

Hero Lab mentions (1)

Official notice from the Battlescribe Data team
Looks like you can still buy if from the company that make it (Lone Wolf Developments, wolflair.com) but it doesn't look like it's been updated in a while. Looks like they're really pushing their RPG character sheet thing now so AB doesn't get much developer time spent on it. Source: over 1 year ago