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<blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 2717965" data-attributes="member: 12966"><p>But it's extremely convenient if the tool <strong>does</strong> know this. After all, the point in having a computer-based tool is for it to do as much of grunt work as possible. And I would greatly prefer if the tool could do everything and I could just concentrate on storytelling.</p><p></p><p>That said, DMGenie is the closest I've seen so far. With a little bit of prep work, I can set up a complete encounter so that when the PCs enter the area, I click on the "Start Combat With This Group" button while having the BBEGs on the screen, and everything is taken care of: initiative, surprise (and flat-footed), encounter distance, and so on. I let my PCs roll their own initiative (I may change this in the future), so I have to bring up the Init window and type in what they roll -- the program adds the modifiers for me.</p><p></p><p>The other thing I use a lot is the HTML-ized version of the RSRD. I got it from <a href="http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/" target="_blank">http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/</a> and clicking on the "3.5 SRD" link on the left. I use the Sovelior dataset; I've written some Perl code that finds all HTML <img> references and downloads the actual image, saves it in a subdirectory, and modifies the original <img> element to point to the newly downloaded graphics. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> The web site can't distribute the graphics (they're WotC's), but there's nothing to stop me from caching them locally if I download them myself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azhrei_fje, post: 2717965, member: 12966"] But it's extremely convenient if the tool [b]does[/b] know this. After all, the point in having a computer-based tool is for it to do as much of grunt work as possible. And I would greatly prefer if the tool could do everything and I could just concentrate on storytelling. That said, DMGenie is the closest I've seen so far. With a little bit of prep work, I can set up a complete encounter so that when the PCs enter the area, I click on the "Start Combat With This Group" button while having the BBEGs on the screen, and everything is taken care of: initiative, surprise (and flat-footed), encounter distance, and so on. I let my PCs roll their own initiative (I may change this in the future), so I have to bring up the Init window and type in what they roll -- the program adds the modifiers for me. The other thing I use a lot is the HTML-ized version of the RSRD. I got it from [url]http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/[/url] and clicking on the "3.5 SRD" link on the left. I use the Sovelior dataset; I've written some Perl code that finds all HTML <img> references and downloads the actual image, saves it in a subdirectory, and modifies the original <img> element to point to the newly downloaded graphics. :cool: The web site can't distribute the graphics (they're WotC's), but there's nothing to stop me from caching them locally if I download them myself. ;) [/QUOTE]
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