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<blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 6266752" data-attributes="member: 6686357">Do you ever plan on including the special abilities from <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/rules-for-monsters/universal-monster-rules" target="_blank">http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/rules-for-monsters/universal-monster-rules</a> ?I found this a really great idea, but it's very inflexible. We can't customize special abilities in the program itself (either changing the qualifiers for existing abilities or adding new abilities), there's no system for adding racial skill bonuses, the program requires you to select the CR first rather than allowing you to build the monster and have the program auto-calculate the CR from the statistics, and we can't look at the monster's statistics in detail (e.g. with the skill and DC formulas spelled out) to watch them change while we're editing it.Essentially, I'd like to have a program with the functionality teased in this blog post: <a href="http://monsteradvancer.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/dev-journal-user-data-entry-systems-feat-builder-monster-builder/" target="_blank">http://monsteradvancer.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/dev-journal-user-data-entry-systems-feat-builder-monster-builder/</a> and <a href="http://awizardindallas.blogspot.com/2010/03/pathfinder-monster-database.html" target="_blank">http://awizardindallas.blogspot.com/2010/03/pathfinder-monster-database.html</a> Unfortunately, it seems that particular program isn't going to be released any time soon, but I'd like to have something like that without having to spend exorbitant fees on big name programs or figure out how to code in an obscure programming language. I've tried numerous programs like DM Genie and PCGen and none of them are free, simple or easy to use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VelvetViolet, post: 6266752, member: 6686357"] Do you ever plan on including the special abilities from [URL]http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/rules-for-monsters/universal-monster-rules[/URL] ? I found this a really great idea, but it's very inflexible. We can't customize special abilities in the program itself (either changing the qualifiers for existing abilities or adding new abilities), there's no system for adding racial skill bonuses, the program requires you to select the CR first rather than allowing you to build the monster and have the program auto-calculate the CR from the statistics, and we can't look at the monster's statistics in detail (e.g. with the skill and DC formulas spelled out) to watch them change while we're editing it. Essentially, I'd like to have a program with the functionality teased in this blog post: [URL]http://monsteradvancer.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/dev-journal-user-data-entry-systems-feat-builder-monster-builder/[/URL] and [URL]http://awizardindallas.blogspot.com/2010/03/pathfinder-monster-database.html[/URL] Unfortunately, it seems that particular program isn't going to be released any time soon, but I'd like to have something like that without having to spend exorbitant fees on big name programs or figure out how to code in an obscure programming language. I've tried numerous programs like DM Genie and PCGen and none of them are free, simple or easy to use. [/QUOTE]

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