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<blockquote data-quote="WolfDM32" data-source="post: 7693612" data-attributes="member: 6813001"><p>I'm not real happy with the tools available. PDF of the phb and Monster manual are searchable on a computer, defeating a need for quick spell lists, and the DMG PDF is searchable as well. I have purchased the monster manual, dmg, and phb and have pdfs of each as well. As a GM I find Word documents and the most important tool is simply an encounter difficulty and xp calculator for 5e. I use this site for calculating quick encounter difficulty and xp: <a href="http://1-dot-encounter-planner.appspot.com/difficulty-calculator.html" target="_blank">http://1-dot-encounter-planner.appspot.com/difficulty-calculator.html</a></p><p></p><p>Other than that, the biggest issue I have is a tool for drawing out dungeons with designed for printing the houses, dungeons, etc. I've tried a fair number of them, and I feel like all fall short. You have setup custom map packs or they only have one set of tiles that doesn't come close to what is needed for a specific adventure. Or some of the tools the graphics are horrible worse than final fantasy 1 graphics. I've decided to attempt creating my own physical terrain tiles. They aren't bad, but not exactly what I'm looking for either. I'm disappointed that there aren't reasonably priced simple terrain tile systems for under $50.00 that would be generic enough to use in any campaign, but have specific add ons and additional interchangeable configurations. Basicly not quite to the detail of Lego DND tiles, but stuff that looks halfway decent without spending a kidney! If only we could mame some characters and steal in game kidneys for stuff... or in game gold, whatever is more valuable as a currency.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WolfDM32, post: 7693612, member: 6813001"] I'm not real happy with the tools available. PDF of the phb and Monster manual are searchable on a computer, defeating a need for quick spell lists, and the DMG PDF is searchable as well. I have purchased the monster manual, dmg, and phb and have pdfs of each as well. As a GM I find Word documents and the most important tool is simply an encounter difficulty and xp calculator for 5e. I use this site for calculating quick encounter difficulty and xp: [url]http://1-dot-encounter-planner.appspot.com/difficulty-calculator.html[/url] Other than that, the biggest issue I have is a tool for drawing out dungeons with designed for printing the houses, dungeons, etc. I've tried a fair number of them, and I feel like all fall short. You have setup custom map packs or they only have one set of tiles that doesn't come close to what is needed for a specific adventure. Or some of the tools the graphics are horrible worse than final fantasy 1 graphics. I've decided to attempt creating my own physical terrain tiles. They aren't bad, but not exactly what I'm looking for either. I'm disappointed that there aren't reasonably priced simple terrain tile systems for under $50.00 that would be generic enough to use in any campaign, but have specific add ons and additional interchangeable configurations. Basicly not quite to the detail of Lego DND tiles, but stuff that looks halfway decent without spending a kidney! If only we could mame some characters and steal in game kidneys for stuff... or in game gold, whatever is more valuable as a currency. [/QUOTE]
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