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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 2111903" data-attributes="member: 20740">When I used to have a laptop, Excel was my friend.Also, I wrote a neat little script that took a command line argument and gave me a die result.  Like "roll.vbs 20" would pop up a messagebox with a d20 random result.  I then put a link in my Start Menu to each of the normal dice and then set hot keys to them:4 - Ctrl-Alt-46 - Ctrl-Alt-68 - Ctrl-Alt-810 - Ctrl-Alt-112 - Ctrl-Alt-220 - Ctrl-Alt-0Once I got used to it (confusing the 2 for 20 and the 0 for 10 was the hardest thing to overcome), I could just hit those keys whenever I needed a die result.  Didn't matter what app I was running at the time.  I have tried to figure out how to get something to run in the taskbar (like Media Player does), but to no avail.Other than that, I used notepad for everything.  Notes, Initiative order, current HP, etc.  After I was done with the session, I'd just upload the stuff to my server for use the following week.In the past, I also created a nice Spell program.  By getting all the spells in XML format (which took quite a bit of data scrubbing on the SRD HTML files), I could look for, say, spells of level 1-3 that require no material components and have no saves or fortitude saves.  Made creating spell lists and figuring out a good spell to use in any given situation really easy.  Of course, it had an integrated dice roller.  So if the spell said 1d6 / level I could click on that and based on what level I set for the caster, it would give me a result.  It did auto DCs, etc. just by clicking on what caster you were using.  This program has since been lost, and I do not have the heart to recreate it.I'm currently designing/writing (but probably never finishing, that's just the way of things) a whole suite of tools to be integrated into one app so that I never need to open more than one app at a time again.  If completed, it will let you take notes, do the whole spell things, support grid-stuff, work as a simple spreadsheet (useful math functions only), store maps, fully index the core books, have a context sensitive roller (anytime it recognized a die roll, it would allow you to click on it for a result), and have a table generator ("col1=row; col2=prevrow + (col1-1) * 1000; rows=1 to 100" for instance would generate the XP table for levels 1 through 100).  I can't tell you how often I would like to generate a table on the fly for something and just wish there was a tool to easily do so.  It would also fully support XML so that you could add new data to it as you see fit.</blockquote>

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