Dark Sun for 3.5
 

Would people prefer the Athas.org Dark Sun campaign setting for 3.5 or the Dragon Magazine/Dungeon Magazine version. The Athas.org is more complete but it is user created not "official" like the magazine version would be. Is there a way I could to do both I wonder? Kind of like "Here is the setting choose Athas.org or Dragon Mag version" check boxes.

I have no problem keying in the info for this setting. I made need help with a few things so look for my questions.

I vote Athas org ruleset. However I haven't actually perused the dragon mag rules.

How do you add a new Custom Source?
For instance I wanted to add
Dark Sun Campaign Setting
-Athas.org Races
etc..

Look at the XXX.1st file located in the D20 data folder it'll give you an idea! I can't recall the actual name ATM but it's the file with the 1st extension!

When I try adding to Custom - Sources.1st I get an error.

File:Custom-Sources.1st (line 1)-Invalid character encoding specified-XML documents must be encoded in 'ISO-8859-1" encoding


<document signature="Hero Lab Structure">
<source id="p30" name="3.0 D&D Books" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Lawful_g Community created 3.0 D&D books."/>
<source id="pDS" name="Dark Sun Setting Books" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Lawful_g Community created Dark Sun books."/>
<source id="pDL" name="Dragonlance Setting Books" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Lawful_g Community created Dragonlance books."/>
<source id="p35" name="3.5 D&D Books" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Lawful_g Community created 3.5 D&D books."/>
<source id="pFR" name="Forgotten Realms Setting Books" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Lawful_g Community created Forgotten Realms books."/>
<source id="pECS" name="Eberron Campaign Setting Books" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Community created Eberron setting books."/>
<source id="pRaven" name="Ravenloft Campaign Setting Books" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Community created Ravenloft setting books."/>
<source id="pPaizo" name="Paizo - Modules" selectable="no" parent="UserParent" sortorder="0" description="Community created Pathfinder and Gamemastery Modules"/>
</document>

Check out this Sources... thread as it has examples and everything.

thanks. What xml editor do you recommend, or do you just use notepad?

I use dreamweaver but any text editor will work, I usually copy and paste the existing last line insert my own data then tag my custom stuff to the new source in HL.

Most of my changes are inside the HL Editor. When I do need to work in the raw XML I actually prefer TextPad actually. I have used for many years on many different projects from HTML, XML, Java, javascript, and the scripting language of Never Winter Nights.

I would at least advice picking up one that does the coloring of the different element types and stuff. That really helps make it easier to read.

I was trying to use Microsoft XML Notepad 2007 and Hero Lab does not like the way it saves the files. I thought I was doing something wrong but it is just a compatibly issue with the software.