what electronic aids do you use?

[Munin]

I'm in the market for a good computer app to help save precious time while I'm getting my games together. Let me know what you like to use!

 

[Chacal]

I'm in the market for a good computer app to help save precious time while I'm getting my games together. Let me know what you like to use!

Enworld is your friend :

http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?...ns&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=31&page=1



Chacal

 

[pensiv]

I'm not sure if this sort of thing is what you're asking about specifically, but Creative Mountain Games has a few generators like Unlimited Titles, for generating a library, or Dwellings for generating locations.

They've also got a bunch of PDF books with all the SRD content reformatted and reorganized in a bunch of ways for easy reference. SRD Bundle

 

[Kender42]

I'm in the market for a good computer app to help save precious time while I'm getting my games together. Let me know what you like to use!

I use <a href="http://www.paladinpgm.com/dmf/">DM's Familiar</a> as I DM, and HeroForge (don't have the URL handy) for character building. (HF is just a spreadsheet)

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

(Please excuse the gushing... I'm quite fond of CMG Products... )

Creative Mountain Games has quite a few nifty little items online. Mark, the head honcho there has released several "generators" that are marvelous for ingame or pregame usage. The Unlimited Titles Generator creates a stack of books for you to place in a library, give to players, or even base adventures off of--the possibilites are quite numerous. Even more useful in game is the "dwellings" generator which can generate just about any kind of home for in game usage.

Though not technically "electronic" you also might want to invest in a nice copy of the SRD for your computer. A good one, if you can find one, will be nicely formatted and bookmarked up to whazoo so you can just look at the table of contents, click the item you want and WHAM, instantly you're there with the info at your fingertips.

It just so happens I own one of these products!

The CMG Plexus SRD Revised Bundle has just about everything you need. It has the full 3.5 SRD nicely indexed and formatted well for computer, laptop, or even PocketPC usage (a tad slow on a PPC, but...any PDF is slow on PPC). In addition to the SRD, it also has packs of spells for each of the spellcasting classes. The spells are listed by level AND alphabetically, and are also fully indexed and bookmarked.

See the link in my profile (or here too, I suppose) to get over to Creative Mountain Games

 

[Henry]

Moved to our Computers and Software forum,


and SECONDED on Creative Mountain Games' SRD product. Awesome reference tool - truthfully, it's kept me from buying the 3.5 Core books.

 

[Piratecat]

Thirded.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Thirded.

Fourthed. I recently bought the Plexus - SRD Revised - Spells (Bundle) and find it very useful. I also have the "book generator" and it's a lot of fun.

 

[kingpaul]

I'm in the market for a good computer app to help save precious time while I'm getting my games together. Let me know what you like to use!

I'm biased, but I like PCGen for character creation.

There are also generator's by Jamis Buck: http://www.aarg.net/~minam/npc.cgi . Andargor has updated the NPC one to revised rules: http://www.andargor.com/

 

[MerakSpielman]

I use Etools. It started out crappy but has been getting steadily better as the good folks at Code Monkey Publishing release patches. The 3.5 rulesets aren't ready yet, but you can purchase data sets for most WoTC material (splatbooks, arms and equipment, BoVD, etc...), and custom-enter in everything else you could possibly want (skills, PrCs, items (magic and mundane), races, monsters, etc...). The forum community is very helpful.

I have a good sized bag of electronic tricks on my home computer, but it's kind of... down... right now. There are lots of free utilities available on the web for generating NPCs, dungeons, etc...