SRD monsters in new stat block format? - FOUND!
Thanee
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With regular expressions and pattern recognition you should easily be able to transform from one format (if it is consistent) to the other, i.e. with a pretty simple perl script. Just read the relevant data in by making a pattern search and saving the parts you need, and then put it out the way you want it. Of course, that requires at least some knowledge of programming, but it's really not that difficult to do.
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XCorvis
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Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple. The new stat block uses a number of conventions that just won't translate well, so it's not a simple matter of rearranging. Some things that were previously together have been split up, namely special abilities, and some things just don't exist, like "Posessions" (which have to be extrapolated from the text). You pretty much have to do the whole thing by hand. Feel free to prove me wrong, of course. 
Thanee
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Well, ok, decisions like which SA/Q comes where are trickier, of course, but at least you could do 95% of the work this way, without having to handle each statblock by hand. Still a huge time saver.
If there are only some specific SA/Qs going to specific locations, that could also be automated.
Of course, I do not use the new statblock, so I don't really know what's going where, only seen it a few times, and I prefer the old one.
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Thanee
If there are only some specific SA/Qs going to specific locations, that could also be automated.
Of course, I do not use the new statblock, so I don't really know what's going where, only seen it a few times, and I prefer the old one.
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Thanee
silvermane
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Joshua Randall
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