Any good d20 combat utilities?

[Dragonblade]

Any good combat spreadsheets or programs?

I'm looking for a combat spreadsheet that lets me plug in some basic bad guy or monster stats like attack bonus (including for each iterative attack in a round) and damage roll and so on and then lets me plug in the AC of my players and I can just click a button or something and it will automatically calculate how many attacks hit a player, how much damage they did and so on. It would be even better if I could specify a number of mooks instead of just one.

When my PCs reach higher levels they frequently get ambushed by hordes of mooks and so on. Instead of rolling a d20 fifty times a round, it would be nice to have some sort of utility that can do it for me and spit out the number of times each PC was hit, who hit them, how much damage they took, including a per PC total and even display for me the die rolls involved in case I need that level of detail.

Is there anything like that out there? I want something simple that doesn't require a ton of configuration or a steep learning curve.

 

[DMFTodd]

You have several choices in combat managers: My program, DM's Familiar, DM Genie, Roleplaying Master, Crystal Ball (for the mac), and the GMGen portion of PCGen. Several threads in here talking about each of the programs and they all have free demos where you can download the program and test them out.

 

[Dragonblade]

Thanks for the response. All of those look like great programs. But all of the combat managers seem only to be designed for small encounters. Player1 goes, then Orc1, then Player2 and so on.

I need something that can handle block of enemies and treat them as a single unit in the combat round. Like I might want two blocks of thirty level 20 fighters and another block of ten level 15 fighters and so on.

I want to be able to choose a group of bad guys, and with the click of a button spit out a complete summary of each attack for each fighter in that particular group, including damage vs. a specific PC (or PCs) that I specified. I still want a screen showing me all the rolls and calculations but I need a summary that shows me just the totals. So for example, if I had one block of fighters attack a PC with AC 25, I want to see all the rolls and whether they hit or miss and damage for those that hit, but I also want a summarized total that says that Player1 was hit 10 times by 9 fighters for a total of 130 points of damage by fighter group A.

And if a PC casts Fireball or something, it would be nice if I could quickly specify say 15 of those 20 fighters and have the program automatically roll saves and tally hitpoint damage for each of those 15. Then as they die off, have the program keep track of whose dead and reduce the number of fighters left in a given group.

I don't want to have to manage attacks or saving throws for each bad guy separately. Basically I need a program that can handle large scale mass combat quickly and easily, with standard D&D combat rules. Preferably with epic level support. Can any of those programs do that?

 

[Dragonblade]

I'll take the lack of response to assume that no combat tools out there can meet my needs. Bummer.

 

[Delak]

I can tell you from personal experence using DM Genie that i have handled a large scale combat with my pc party. Here is the break down of what each side had.

PC Party - 6
NPC City Defenders - about 100
Troll Army - 3 waves of 100 ea + 10 Hill Giants + 1 Frost Giant

Combat went very smooth given the numbers and i had it done in one game sessions from start to finish.

I would also look at Fralands website as he has created a Mass Combat system along with a utiltity to determin Mass Combat encounters.