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<blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 2401019" data-attributes="member: 7737">I would just like to give a shout out to DM Genie, which is a fine Windows-based tool for making PCs, NPCs, monsters, and running adventures. No, it's not perfect, but I have been using it for a while and find it does almost everything I want it to.Now back to the discussion...To follow up on an earlier point about a tool to show all of a character's buffed stats, I have thought about this off-and-on for a while. It is easy to create an Excel sheet with columns for the various bonus types: armor / shield / natural / dodge / deflection / etc. for AC, morale / luck / etc. for attack bonus, and so forth. It is a little more complex (but still solvable) to apply only the maximum bonus of each type; i.e., stack bonuses appropriately.Now what would be really cool would be a non-electronic version of this. How? I've thought about overlapping transparent sheets so that when you are done, only the total, appropriately stacked bonus is visible. But this would be hard to do and costly to produce.I've also though about various wheels or spinners, of the sort found in kids' games, with integers from (say) -9 to +9. Then somehow combine them like gears in a clock so that as you rotate various wheels, the properly stacked bonus shows up. Can't quite get my prototypes to work, and again, there is the productino cost issue. (Although you can offload the production costs to the consumer by providing only the paper parts, requiring the consumer to purchase the &quot;brads&quot; that create the spinners.)So there! A free idea for any d20 publisher who wants to make it happen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joshua Randall, post: 2401019, member: 7737"] I would just like to give a shout out to DM Genie, which is a fine Windows-based tool for making PCs, NPCs, monsters, and running adventures. No, it's not perfect, but I have been using it for a while and find it does almost everything I want it to. Now back to the discussion... To follow up on an earlier point about a tool to show all of a character's buffed stats, I have thought about this off-and-on for a while. It is easy to create an Excel sheet with columns for the various bonus types: armor / shield / natural / dodge / deflection / etc. for AC, morale / luck / etc. for attack bonus, and so forth. It is a little more complex (but still solvable) to apply only the maximum bonus of each type; i.e., stack bonuses appropriately. Now what would be really cool would be a non-electronic version of this. How? I've thought about overlapping transparent sheets so that when you are done, only the total, appropriately stacked bonus is visible. But this would be hard to do and costly to produce. I've also though about various wheels or spinners, of the sort found in kids' games, with integers from (say) -9 to +9. Then somehow combine them like gears in a clock so that as you rotate various wheels, the properly stacked bonus shows up. Can't quite get my prototypes to work, and again, there is the productino cost issue. (Although you can offload the production costs to the consumer by providing only the paper parts, requiring the consumer to purchase the "brads" that create the spinners.) So there! A free idea for any d20 publisher who wants to make it happen. [/QUOTE]

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