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I checked the DMG and can't find anything about this. When a trap or hazard is revealed to the party, what is the proper way to reveal possible countermeasures? Read them (without DCs of course)? Let people try things blindly? Or give them a rough idea of things they might be able to try?

Son of a... yup. Like I said, I was looking in all the wrong places. Thanks for the tip. I'll just use the Endurance check while they're held underwater. I'll even skip it for the first round they're under if they're smart enough to say they take a deep breath prior to getting pulled...

I've poked around, looking for a place where this is addressed, and I can't find it (which might mean I'm just looking in the wrong place). But how do you handle drowning? Or what's a good way to handle it? I'm putting together a trap/hazard inspired by the Muck Tentacles, and the 'goal' of...

Thanks for the heads up. I'm using C# - I just never thought to set this app up for localization. I'll work on that for the next update.

There's a new update to the monster library and encounter builder in the first post. New features include the full monster block as a popup in the app as well as when printed out. Check the first post for full details.

Only issue with doing something like this is it would be my subjective opinion on what should be added. Sure, the DMG gives a rough idea to mix different monster types, but I've never seen a formula that I could follow Otherwise it's just me making things up like 1 luker + 2 soldiers + 2...

I kinda wish they'd come out with a small supplement of traps and hazards, honestly. Sure, I can make my own, but it always helps to have a template to start from. I don't think they're given enough usage (at least in my play experience). I've started to use them more in my game and now have...

It seems obvious, but that's a good point. I had started sketching out something, but kinda skipped that key point. If there isn't an compelling reason to go forward, why should they?

Both errors are due to the same issue. If you're running on Vista, I noted that you have to run the app in Administrator mode. Once you've done that, you'll be fine.

Did you run the traps/hazards in succession? Or put the party in a place where all of the traps/hazards had a chance of being triggered? I'm thinking of putting together a particular nasty section of a section of travel in the wilderness with vines, geysers, quicksand, etc. But each hazard...

I was inspired reading a couple of traps in dmg and dmg2. Has anyone ever run an encounter made up of only traps? Perhaps like a gauntlet type event?

I'm purposely not trying to parse the rich text. There's a way to get just the text off of the clipboard, and that's what I'm using. Regarding the error, I received a few other samples via PM that makes me think I know what's going on. All of the monsters throwing errors are ones where XP is...

I made an update - including something to help me track down these "you have an error, but I can't reproduce it" errors. Check the original post for an update. The .zip file there is the updated version.

First off - thanks for the heads up. Yup, the negative value for initiative was throwing off some string parsing I was doing. Honestly I never knew a monster that had a negative initiative, so I wasn't accounting for it. Second, the bulk of the monsters you mentioned, I had no issue with...

Strange - I just tried it and it worked fine. Don't suppose I could convince you to try again?

Thanks for the tips on the monsters that aren't working. WOTC keeps adding/changing the order of how things appear in their monsters, I'm going to just have to handle all of the permutations. Also, I was able to reproduce the "Remove from Encounter" crash. That was me being dumb. I'll get...

Check out the 3rd image in the first post. The app currently does what you asked minus the noting of recharge powers.

I put together little application that allows you to copy monsters you want to use for a campaign into a single library and use that to build encounters targeted for party size/level. It also gives a visual representation of the difficulty of the encounter you made compared to all party...