DMFTodd said:
DM's Familiar (www.paladinpgm.com/dmf) is a 17Meg download. It's had lots and lots of downloads in 3 short months. D&D players seem very willing to download large files in my opinion.
Plenty of people seem to like PCGen. The java engine for that was a pretty large download as well as I remember.
Java from Sun is something that is used for more than just PCGen, and therein lies the difference. There are a lot of (web) sites that use java plug-ins, there's some baic frame of java support built into most OS's.
PCGen just uses Java to be truly cross platform, and that's something most software can't even _think_ about claiming. Yes, the Sun Java Standard package is 13megs in size, but PCGen itself is only two 1mb zip fles (1 is data, the other is the program/support files).
To test to see what version of Java you have (if any) on your system, at the command prompt (DOS windows for all us Windows users - any version), and type in;
java -version
if it comes back as saying;
Java Version '1.3.0' or higher, then you're good to go to run PCGen and need make no other downloads than the 2 zip files for PCGen itself.
If you get 'Invalid command' or other statement, then you need to go to Sun's website and get teh Java Runtime Enviorment download (the 13 meg file) and install it.
So if you have Java already installed, then it's a 2 meg d/l, if not, then it's a total of about 15megs.
Just depends on your definition of 'huge' d/l's