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<blockquote data-quote="DMFTodd" data-source="post: 2062878" data-attributes="member: 1202"><a href="http://www.paladinpgm.com/dmf" target="_blank">DM's Familiar</a> does all of that. It's commercial though, $29.95. the ability to save the adventuring party and reload the party: DMF has a combat board that is persistent. So each time you start the program, the PCs would be loaded up. You can even quit the game in the middle of a combat and then, the next time you start DMF, the combat is sitting right there.the ability to save the encounters: DMF does this in the Codex Tree. You can setup entire adventures in the tree. Each encounter can then have as many creatures of as many types as you want. When you drag an encounter from the tree to the combat board, it rolls inititiave for creatures, rolls hit points. Both of those being optional.the ability to import XML stat blocks (from eTools preferably): DMF imports stat blocks. There are XLS sheets for PCGen and E:Tools specifically. the ability to track duration and effects of multi-round spells and other effects: You can manually add durations to the combat board. When casting a spell for a creature, a duration is created automatically. if it tracked and divided XP as well it would be just about perfect: DMF does that as well. I'm looking for something with a fairly shallow learning curve too: DMF is a pretty basic type-in-what-you-want program. No scripting to learn, no goofy interface. application of damage: DMF does that. You can manually enter damage to any creature/PC. Your other options would be Roleplaying Master, DMGenie, and Crystal Ball (for the mac). All of those are commerical.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DMFTodd, post: 2062878, member: 1202"] [URL=http://www.paladinpgm.com/dmf]DM's Familiar[/URL] does all of that. It's commercial though, $29.95. the ability to save the adventuring party and reload the party: DMF has a combat board that is persistent. So each time you start the program, the PCs would be loaded up. You can even quit the game in the middle of a combat and then, the next time you start DMF, the combat is sitting right there. the ability to save the encounters: DMF does this in the Codex Tree. You can setup entire adventures in the tree. Each encounter can then have as many creatures of as many types as you want. When you drag an encounter from the tree to the combat board, it rolls inititiave for creatures, rolls hit points. Both of those being optional. the ability to import XML stat blocks (from eTools preferably): DMF imports stat blocks. There are XLS sheets for PCGen and E:Tools specifically. the ability to track duration and effects of multi-round spells and other effects: You can manually add durations to the combat board. When casting a spell for a creature, a duration is created automatically. if it tracked and divided XP as well it would be just about perfect: DMF does that as well. I'm looking for something with a fairly shallow learning curve too: DMF is a pretty basic type-in-what-you-want program. No scripting to learn, no goofy interface. application of damage: DMF does that. You can manually enter damage to any creature/PC. Your other options would be Roleplaying Master, DMGenie, and Crystal Ball (for the mac). All of those are commerical. [/QUOTE]

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