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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knasser" data-source="post: 6931188" data-attributes="member: 65151">Hi. Thanks to everyone for all the replies. I went away for a little while to research and play around with the free and demo versions of FG and Herolab respectively.To those who asked what I wanted from software tools, well it's basically anything that streamlines my job as GM in F2F gaming. In particular, being able to spin up encounters quickly though everything else is a plus. Herolab is interesting. The interface is a bit clunkier than FG (imo) and it certainly doesn't do as much in terms of combat management. On the other hand one of the main things that I thought would be a problem with it was that it seemed to only have the SRD content. And then thanks to a poster in this thread I discovered the community pack which seems to have the lot! So Herolab suddenly becomes a very cost-effective option. I can buy the books and still have a tool that lets me create encounters through rapid drag-and-drop. Having a paperless way of tracking damage to NPCs and monsters is a bonus on top of that. Herolab is a strong contender therefore.HOWEVER, Fantasy Grounds is very impressive. It does a lot! I could certainly see that being useful. I'm still stuck on two things with it though. The first is that I do not want to pay for the content twice - that's a sticking point for me. Books or FG packs, but not both. The second is that if I do buy the "books" in digital form, I don't want to have to pay to access them in perpetuity. That means subscription model is out for me. Still, the one time price isn't too bad - it's mainly the first that I'm wary of. I guess I could just buy everything digitally if it's got all the text in it.Two questions - I found that you can export PCs you've built in Herolab to Fantasy Grounds. Can you export entire encounters from the encounter builder? That would make buying Herolab and FG together a really good combination as I'd be able to use the Community Pack stuff for Herolab as a source of FG. Secondly, you can create your own creatures in FG, yes? So I could just type in monsters from the Monster Manual as needed, if I really wanted to, yes?Again, thanks for all the help!</blockquote>

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