Please critique my Summon Monster spreadsheet

paranoid · Oct 16, 2003

Thought I'd share this with you, I find it helpful. I created this because I always found it ardous to calculate the final stats of summonable monsters time and again. Ever tried to find out the poison save DC for a gargantuan fiendish monstrous scorpion that was summoned by someone with the augment summoning feat in the heat of a battle? Then you should try out this customizable, printable sheet where everything is done for you already (heh, sounds like I try to sell you something, but believe me, it's free

).

If you are interested, please try it out and post any critique, suggestions for improvement or errors into this thread or to the e-mail address provided in the spreadsheet.

[EDIT: newest version attached]

-p.

KeithHays · Oct 16, 2003

Looks good! Oughta get that first period out of the filename, though. It doesn't save as a zip file that way.

Thanks!

Dr.Dan · Oct 17, 2003

Just for the record, I despise MS Excel. I just downloaded your sheet (looks nice, BTW) and accidentally changed some formula while looking around. I couldn't undo more than one step back, so I tried to quit the program without saving the changes. IT WOULDN'T LET ME QUIT!!! It kept displaying the message, "you can't quit Microsoft Excel." Grrrrrr!

Storminator · Oct 17, 2003

Dr.Dan said:
Just for the record, I despise MS Excel. I just downloaded your sheet (looks nice, BTW) and accidentally changed some formula while looking around. I couldn't undo more than one step back, so I tried to quit the program without saving the changes. IT WOULDN'T LET ME QUIT!!! It kept displaying the message, "you can't quit Microsoft Excel." Grrrrrr!

CTRL-ALT-Delete... End Task....

PS

edited to hide my own stupidity...

paranoid · Oct 17, 2003

KeithHays said:
Looks good! Oughta get that first period out of the filename, though. It doesn't save as a zip file that way.

Thanks!

Thanks for the hint, filename changed.

Storminator said:
CTRL-ALT-Delete... End Task....

That would certainly do it. I thought about write-protecting the whole spreadsheet in order to prevent accidental editing, but decided against that, I didn't want to incapacitate you folks... But if bad comes to worse and you can't undo, just download the file again.

cheers,

-p.

KnightFever · Oct 17, 2003

Nice and handy spreadsheet. Any plan to do the same with Nature's Ally spells ?

Chacal · Oct 17, 2003

paranoid said:
I thought about write-protecting the whole spreadsheet in order to prevent accidental editing, but decided against that, I didn't want to incapacitate you folks...

I believe you can write protect the zones with formulas without putting a password. This way It doesn't incapacitate anyone.

Thanks for the time and efforts !
Staroffice isn't converting it completely so I'll Check it later with Excel.

Chacal

gfunk · Oct 17, 2003

The damage for the Elder Eath elemental should be 2d10+11, but that's minor.

Otherwise, very good job. Personally, I'm still kind of surprised at the utility and power of Summon Nature's Ally over Summon Monster.

Pielorinho · Oct 17, 2003

Very cool! A couple suggestions:
-Put a fieldname row across the top and lock it.
-Apply light shading to every other row, to make it easier to follow one record all the way across.

Daniel

Piratecat · Oct 17, 2003

I'll slide this over to the correct forum.

Very nice!

Please critique my Summon Monster spreadsheet

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