Press Release Templates

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Introduction

This page contains a few templates to be used by the Advertising team, a sub-team of the PR team, when putting together press releases. The text of the actual release will be tailored to the specific requirements of each press release.

Alpha/Beta Release

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Subject: PCGen X.XX.X (<Alpha/Beta>) Released!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of PCGen X.XX.X (<Alpha/Beta>).

<Comment on significant achievements for this release, including new data-sets and features added.>

For the full detail on all changes made in this release, check out the release notes here:

<link to release note>

As you can see, the work for <X.XX, the next stable release.> is progressing well! So for the brave and the bold, please do try out this <alpha/beta> and give us your feedback.

PCGen is a RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. Please join us http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/ or visit our site http://pcgen.sourceforge.net.

Public Releations Team PCGen Project

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Subject: PCGen X.XX.X (<Alpha/Beta>) Released!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of PCGen X.XX.X (<Alpha/Beta>).

<Comment on significant achievements for this release, including new data-sets and features added.>

For the full detail on all changes made in this release, check out the <a href="<link to release notes>">Release Notes</a>.

As you can see, the work for <X.XX, the next stable release.> is progressing well! So for the brave and the bold, please do try out this <alpha/beta> and give us your feedback.

PCGen is a RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. Please join us at <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/">PCGen@Yahoo!</a> or visit our website <a href="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net">here</a>.

Public Releations Team PCGen Project

Production Release

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Subject: PCGen X.XX Released!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of the X.XX.X Production Release of PCGen.

<Comment on significant achievements for this release, including new data-sets and features added.>

For the full detail on all changes made in this release, check out the release notes here:

<link to release note>

PCGen is a RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. Please join us at <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/">PCGen@Yahoo!</a> or visit our website <a href="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net">here</a>.

Public Releations Team PCGen Project

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Subject: PCGen X.XX Released!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of the X.XX.X Production Release of PCGen.

<Comment on significant achievements for this release, including new data-sets and features added.>

For the full detail on all changes made in this release, check out the <a href="<link to release notes>">Release Notes</a>.

PCGen is a RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. Please join us at <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/">PCGen@Yahoo!</a> or visit our website <a href="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net">here</a>.

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Data Set Release

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Subject: PCGen Releases <product name> Data Sets!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of data sets for <publisher> <product line/title>!

<list data sets included in the release>

These data sets are compatible with the latest stable version of PCGen, <bersion #>, and are available for immediate download from PCGen's download page here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576

For more information about this release, check out the release notes here:

<url for the release notes>

PCGen is an Open-Source RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII text files so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. For more information about PCGen, join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/ or visit our website at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net and wiki at http://wiki.pcgen.org/.

PCGen Team

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Subject: PCGen Releases <product name> Data Sets!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of data sets for <publisher>'s <product line/title>!

<list data sets included in the release>

These data sets are compatible with PCGen <version #> and are available for immediate download from PCGen's <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576">download page</a>.

For more information about this release, check out the <a href="<url to release notes>">Release Notes</a>.

PCGen is an Open-Source RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII text files so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. For more information about PCGen, join us at <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/">PCGen@Yahoo!</a> or visit our <a href="http://pcgen.sourceforge.net">website</a> and <a href="http://www.pcgen.org/">wiki</a>.

PCGen Team

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Subject: PCGen Releases <product name> Data Sets!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of data sets for <publisher>'s <product line/title>!

<list data sets included in the release>

These data sets are compatible with PCGen <version #> and are available for immediate download from PCGen's [URL=https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576]download page[/URL].

For more information about this release, check out the [URL=<url to release notes>]Release Notes[/URL].

PCGen is an Open-Source RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII text files so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. For more information about PCGen, join us at [URL=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/]PCGen@Yahoo![/URL] or visit our [URL=http://pcgen.sourceforge.net]website[/URL] and [URL=http://www.pcgen.org/]wiki[/URL].

PCGen Team

Example

Subect: PCGen Releases 8 New Pathfinder Data Sets!

PCGen is pleased to announce the release of data sets for Paizo Publishing's Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Paths!

Data Sets in this release include Rise of the Runelords chapters 2 through 6, "The Skinsaw Murders", "The Hook Mountain Massacre", "Fortress of the Stone Giants", "Sins of the Saviors", and "Spires of Xin-Shalast", and Curse of the Crimson Throne Players Guide and chapters 1 and 2, "Edge of Anarchy" and "Seven Days to the Grave".

These data sets are compatible with the latest stable version of PCGen, v5.14.1, and are available for immediate download from PCGen's download page here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576

You will find the release notes here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=25576&release_id=618495

PCGen is an Open-Source RPG character generator and maintenance program (d20 systems). All datafiles are ASCII text files so they can be modified by users for their own campaigns. For more information about PCGen, join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/ or visit our website at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net and wiki at http://www.pcgen-test.org/wiki.

PCGen Team