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A small amount of progress has been made on the project so far today. The progress isn't so much in the coding itself as it is in working towards being able to use a database to house all information regarding classes. The Changelog on the website has been updated accordingly, though the To-Do has yet to see the changes as of this posting. I will most likely fix that the next time I update my progress on the program.

EDIT: The poll has been removed, as the question has already been sufficiently answered. I have also included a link at the top of the first post for those of you who are unsure of what a template is and are curious to find out.

I, once again, appreciate both of you offering me some sort of feedback, both in what I was asking and the extra that was given. After realizing- with much frustration- that the digital copy I have of the Psionics Handbook is utterly lacking in a basic copy of the appropriate character sheet (or any character sheet or index, for that matter), I managed to get the class-based character sheets downloaded from WotC so that I could inspect them for myself.

Honestly, I don't really see many major differences between the standard character sheets and the psionic character sheets aside from additional and/or modified skills, the spell list being replaced by a powers list, and the psychic combat tables. While adding in Psionics to the generator wouldn't be terribly easy, it wouldn't be horribly difficult, either; despite the fact that I'm using one of the most basic programming languages in existence, the most difficult part about adding in the psionic races and classes will be learning the applicable rules so I don't screw up their implementation. However, it won't be until later in the program's development that I would be adding in the Psionic classes and races, and even then, it may only be due to a large enough volume of requests.

Unfortunately, though, it doesn't surprise me that the psionics system is as broken as it is; in fact, the primary reason that it doesn't surprise me is simply because it is so different from what is standard for D&D. As with many games, it is excruciatingly easy to "break" one class or set of classes while trying to balance them out, so for WotC to produce an overpowered set of classes- regardless of its basis- is, to me, about as surprising as black-and-white cattle.

Admittedly, I did enjoy the original Dark Sun game when I was old enough to understand how it worked a bit better, and I would enjoy playing it again if I could get my hands on a copy of it.

Which is entirely understandable, as it probably would have thrown me off as well if I weren't looking at it specifically for comparison. The biggest change would be the addition of Psionic Combat, which would most likely require a new section to utilize if/when I decide to implement Psionics. As I said before, the biggest challenge for me will be in learning the Psionic rules to ensure that everything is properly added into the program.

A small amount of progress has been made, and the site's changelog has been updated according. I should be able to resume coding later today or tomorrow.

My... It's been a bit since I posted any updates here, hasn't it?

Well, for the past three-ish days, I've been re-working the entire project from the ground up and, in that time, have managed to do more with less coding- which means that, when I feel it's ready to be released for its first public version, it will take up less space on your computers (not that it'd be taking up much to begin with. I still have a bit of work to do before I'm entire caught up with everything that I'd done on the original version of the program, but it won't be like that for long.

As always, the site has all of the details regarding the work I've done so far.

A bit more progress has been made again- see the website for details.

However, due to the particular content that I was working on, I felt it imperative to put up a new poll; I would, as usual, greatly appreciate any information you could offer me on the subject.

EDIT: I would like to add, for those of you who would rather not check to see what kind of work I've done regarding the question, that the character must meet both racial and alignment requirements (be within one "step" on either axis) of the deity in question, so currently neither a Lawful Good elf cannot select Corellon Larethian, nor can a Chaotic Neutral gnome select Garl Glittergold as their deity. Of course, these are simply two examples of this restriction, but I believe that it is important for me to be as accurate about the selection of deities as humanly possible.

Makes sense... I can only think of a few instances in which a racial deity would make a particular exception for someone not of their race- the primary reason being that said character grew up with the race, such as a human raised in an elvish family.