State of D&D Software

[Charwoman Gene]

Okay, I'm coming back to D&D.

Where did I go? Depression, Overtime, Laziness.
(Getting into World of Warcraft didn't help.)

Anyway, I want to game again. My wife's characters are mid-adventure.

I have one problem. It's a one-player game. My wife plays three characters, I play three PCs too.
The math is hard, especially when one of the characters is a Druid/Warshaper/Master of Many Forms.

I'm afraid to level him again.

What is the current breakdown of D&D Software?

I'm using Heroforge now, but it is clunky to extend. (I have a few customizations.)

Are there any other good programs?

I'm willing to pay money, but I need one thing.
Druid forms.
Oh, please druid forms.
I'd go back to the hellish interfaces that were PCGen and Etools for Druid forms. (No offense to the users and developers of those fine programs, I just wasn't thrilled by the interfaces which were hellish, for me. YMMV.)

I'm even willing to do one time massive tweaking, as long as levelling didn't drive me mad.

 

[XCorvis]

While you were gone, WotC re-wrote the polymorph/wild shape rules. They aren't as powerful, and they're a hell of a lot easier to deal with.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20060502a

 

[Charwoman Gene]

While you were gone, WotC re-wrote the polymorph/wild shape rules. They aren't as powerful, and they're a hell of a lot easier to deal with.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20060502a

Sure, just the Size, Strength Dexm saving throwsm physical skills multiple damage forms/

I haven't been away all that long, I know about the change. Wildshaping into multiple forms is still a math nightmare on levelling.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

*shameless bump*

 

[dagger]

Well E-Tools is dead....

 

[Seeten]

I use an automated character sheet, which takes care of much of the math for me, its an adobe pdf with about 6000 forms.

 

[Psion]

Well E-Tools is dead....

For all practical purposes, yeah.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

So all "official" products killed.

Yay.

I'll probably try PCGen again... *shudder*

At least I can try to mod the datafiles... and it isn't a nasty excel hack like Heroforge.

 

[Henry]

I'm sorry to say, you came back at a really bad time for official WotC support. (And welcome back, by the way!)

But as far as different softwares, there's DM Genie, I believe Twin Rose Software is still alive and kicking, there's Redblade (I think it's called), and many others I'm fuzzy on. DM Genie comes recommended by friends on ENWorld, and I still use PCGen myself, with the datasets I've bought.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I use an automated character sheet, which takes care of much of the math for me, its an adobe pdf with about 6000 forms.

Care to share it with the rest of us?

Olaf the Stout