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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 5193869" data-attributes="member: 31734">off-topic a littleWell, obviously everyone use case might differ.  If you never customize monsters and have on-line access at your table, then the compendium is fine.  I, however, do not have on-line access at the table and frequently (at least one baddie each and every week) customize monsters.  I wouldn't have considered doing it that often without the monster builder, though.Sure, there are some features lacking (when aren't there things lacking for ANY product for someone?), but overall it's awesome.  Why it was never available for 3.X I have no idea, but it would've saved me countless hours of work and lots of time bitching about spending 16 hours statting up a baddie only to have him fail a save and die in the first round.Regardless, in the "pen" area to the right, you can sort by monster powers.  You can then drag/drop them into the custom monster to the left.  Hand-edit them should you desire and you can raise/lower the level easily, and change the roles, etc.  It's awesome.  The biggest downside to this is sometimes trying to find the perfect power.  The base copy isn't hard (for example, I made some dwarven lumberjacks using the standard dwarf as a base), but sometimes a search for a particular type of power is tough if your term doesn't match.  Not all powers are named well enough, in other words.But, that's really a minor convenience because there are so many choices that will match your terms anyway that you'll almost always have an excellent starting point.I then copy/paste the monster RTF into Word.  Do any last second changes if necessary (rarely).  Then print it out when I'm done compiling baddies for the session.  I try to keep all monsters to a single page for an encounter.  so far that's working for me, but I wouldn't expect to ever go over 2 pages anyway and that's good for my table size.Edit: If you're interested e-mail or pm me an e-mail address and I'll send you a Word file example of what I do.  My e-mail is my user name at gmail.com.</blockquote>

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