MoutonRustique
Explorer
Hello!
I am sorry for the thread title, I try and make snappy titles and... well... the results speak for themselves as they say.
My goal is to "bounderize" 4e - as in reduce in a dramatic fashion the number climb ("bloat" is too negative a term, I feel). My goal on the DM side (I can manage the player side easily) : simply have every monsters' defenses and accuracy be reduced by it's level.
This is, obviously very, very easy to do. BUT, it is also very, very annoying to do. Since I use Master Plan and the MonsterBuilder (thought that last one less and less), I have, "in my possession" a database of all my creatures.
NOW, editing by hand every single one of my very numerous critters has entered my mind in many instances, and in all cases, I get a bit of vertigo and must promptly go lie down (I am being hyperbolic, no need to worry about my health).
Having a script simply go through the entries and do "defense/attack - level" seems so stupid-easy... but I can't manage to do it (in less time than it would to actually do it by hand...)
Has anyone ever attempted (and hopefully succeeded) in this ? Is there a magic button I'm not seeing ?
Here's hoping!
MoutonRustique out.
Note: the most "perfectess" of solutions would probably be a form of add-on to Master Plan that would add a setting "de-bloat" that would do this for a specific campaign. That would be... extremely awesome.
Second note: would MapTools perhaps be a way to do this?
Third note: I'm more curious about programming than proficient at programming.
I am sorry for the thread title, I try and make snappy titles and... well... the results speak for themselves as they say.
My goal is to "bounderize" 4e - as in reduce in a dramatic fashion the number climb ("bloat" is too negative a term, I feel). My goal on the DM side (I can manage the player side easily) : simply have every monsters' defenses and accuracy be reduced by it's level.
This is, obviously very, very easy to do. BUT, it is also very, very annoying to do. Since I use Master Plan and the MonsterBuilder (thought that last one less and less), I have, "in my possession" a database of all my creatures.
NOW, editing by hand every single one of my very numerous critters has entered my mind in many instances, and in all cases, I get a bit of vertigo and must promptly go lie down (I am being hyperbolic, no need to worry about my health).
Having a script simply go through the entries and do "defense/attack - level" seems so stupid-easy... but I can't manage to do it (in less time than it would to actually do it by hand...)
Has anyone ever attempted (and hopefully succeeded) in this ? Is there a magic button I'm not seeing ?
Here's hoping!
MoutonRustique out.
Note: the most "perfectess" of solutions would probably be a form of add-on to Master Plan that would add a setting "de-bloat" that would do this for a specific campaign. That would be... extremely awesome.
Second note: would MapTools perhaps be a way to do this?
Third note: I'm more curious about programming than proficient at programming.