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BTW, I've tried out the Campaign Suite. My verdict? Way too complex, difficult to understand, and does way too many things that I don't need it to do. Probably an excellent piece of software if the DM doesn't want to have ANY paper in front of him and is playing on a laptop, but since I just...

Again, thank you EVERYONE for your continued replies. This is all really helping. I'm going to check out the Yahoo group about the stat block issue. There's a few more things I want to play around with using each program... it's a hard call to make. I'm thinking that even if I decide not to...

Interesting... again, thanks everyone for their continued replies. I'm almost thinking of splitting my money at this point, and getting some things for etools and some things for PCGen. Designing NPCs on PCGen really kicks ass, and I like that a bit more than Etools. However, on BASIC...

The fight with the Galeb Dur is definitely possible. I successfully completed it. The Galeb Dur have a very high DR and also a very high AC, which makes them very hard to beat. They also have a token amount of SR, which makes it even more difficult. I completed the fight by Entangling most...

On top of that, the Improved Grab ability that most monsters possess specifies that: "deals normal damage and attempts to start a grapple as a feww action without provoking an AoO. No initial touch attack is required". Thus, you NEVER get an AoO against a creature with improved grab - unless...

During a grapple, IIRC, the AoO is provoked when the grappler makes the intial touch attack on the creature to "grab" him. During that initial touch attack, if the opponent does not threaten the thing trying to grapple him, he gets no AoO. After he's grappled, the opponent then does move into...

Not necessarily. The creature description will specifically say whether or not the creature's natural weapons bypass any kind of DR. For alignment-based DR, what you say is true. If a creature type is: Medium Magical Beast (Extraplanar, Lawful) then its natural weapons count as lawful...

Thanks so much! You guys are both helping out a ton! In terms of what I want to use with the program I get, I'm mostly interested in WotC stuff... the splatbooks, MMII, and specifically, Forgotten Realms. However, I do also have the Monsternomicon, and may buy the Revised Creature Collection...

Thanks everyone for your help, but now you've doomed me! I've tried out PCGen, and I really like it! Etools doesn't support Templates... BAD!!! and PCGen seems very robust in its capabilities.. I'm playing with it and I can't make up my mind. I can't afford to buy the datasets for BOTH...

Why use PCgen over Etools? I used the freeware version of PCgen that came with my original PHB... it was pretty good. You think it's better than Etools for generating NPCs? It can Prestige Class, add templates, and generate magic equipment for NPCs and such? I'm kind of puzzled by the...

Poor Habib probably isn't a very good performer. Those damned telemarketing companies take it out of employee salaries if they don't retain enough of the customers who call in. Habib probably lost one too many customers that week. It's cruel.

Ah, I missed that bit at the end. Thanks.

Currently trying out Roleplaying master. Interface is a bit chunky... but once you hit the right button to get you where you're going it seems to work fairly well. It's unfortunate that I can't import Forgotten Realms or 3.5 datasets into it until it's registered...

Okay, I'm going to say what I want software for, and anyone who is familiar with the multitude of D&D DM's assistant software out there can answer this for me. I want DM software that I can use to: Build NPC's, including spells, equipement, and prestige classes found in all 3.5 and splatbooks...

Still playing it, still loving it! Haven't solved it yet, but I can't wait to go through with an evil party. Let's just say that the game is COOL enough that I tolerate the bugs, especially the resource-intensive areas at the very end of the game... like the firenode. :)

Question - Does the Overrun action allow you to overrun multiple opponents at the same time with one action? For example P=Player O=Opponent X=Empty square PXXOOXXO Can player P overrun both the Os in the middle as part of a charge action against the O on the end? I understand this involves...

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I once had a mother Displacer Beast who was being held by a Drow Ranger in a large cage in his quarters. The mother was a more powerful than usual Displacer Beast, but I still lowered the CR of her by 2 because she had no way of getting out of the cage, and if my players were smart and patient...

I tire of the Drow. Do they go into a lot of detail about OTHER major underground races, and their civilizations and where they're located? Eg, Duergar, Dwarves, Mind Flayers, Beholders, Phearimms, etc. I mean, it's OBVIOUS that the Underdark is going to have a lot of stuff on the Drow. But...

Eh?? You expected the book to describe all the "Rules" to morality? Percentile tables to determine whether a Paladin feels bad about killing a murderer, but at the same time widowing his innocent wife? Half the fun of D&D is ROLEPLAYING. God, it'd be pathetic as a DM if I ever had to say to...