Looking for Opinions on various RPG Tools

[Pants]

I use the HeroForge Spreadsheet mainly because the layout is really good and the support is good, plus it's somewhat easy to kludge in house rules and magic items.

ETools was... okay. Buggy even after years of support and it ran slow, but it worked okay when I needed it.

PCGen, honestly, the layout bugged the hell out of me. It's probably the best program out there knowing my luck but it felt so very unintuitive to me.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

The copy of what? I wasn't sure, from your post, which program you were referring to.

PCGen

You can create custom items in PCGen.

Cool

I know that some of the PCGen output sheets support this, but I'm not sure what the process is to do it...I don't have a strong desire to have a picture on my character sheet, so haven't delved into it.

But there's some that do.

 

[Pale]

There anything out there that allows for easy templating of monsters? (for example: I would like to create a template by filling out fields in a.. ummm... template template and then be able to click on "Lion" and then click on an add template function, pick "fiendish" and the program spits out the stat block and abilities for a "Fiendish Lion").

I thought that I would have something akin to that with DMGenie, but the more I looked into it, the more it appeared I would have to code the templates myself to get it to function. Frankly, it would be easier for me at that point to simple use Adobe InDesign.

 

[kingpaul]

PCGen has templates in it that you can apply to various creatures. So, in your example, you could pick a lion, and then apply the fiendish template to it.