Thanks for the reply daplunk
I would think that the whole point of providing a custom output is so that we can customize it to our liking. I'm assuming the devs of the game put this feature in for that purpose, especially considering one of the sample outputs is a stat-block provided by HL (and in their examples of creating custom outputs in their help file, they reference making a stat-block).
Either way, the reason I am doing this is because using stat-blocks for baddies in HL isn't streamlined. The encounter builder doesn't load the stat block by default into the creatures profile whenever you load them into HL from the encounter builder (even when you modify the .cfg file to try and force it, or modify the baddy to include the source `open full stat block`).
You're then forced to open up each baddy, open up the profile settings for that baddy, and then check off `show full stat block`. And even then, I still have to click around within HL constantly to pull up different creature information, there's no way to display multiple creatures stat blocks all at once. (save for `exporting` the stat-blocks, which is super ugly and slams all the text close together mashing all your monsters together in a giant wall-of-text).
We're also now using Arkenforge for our maps, so having resources displayed that don't require input from the DM are more important now. Btw, we're LOVING this program, check it out if you haven't heard of it .
Using the provided statblock within HL `works` (multi-attack info is there + proper), so it's clearly pulling the information correctly from HL. I believe there was a mistake made when coding the XML to pull the default description of multi-attack rather than the creatures description of it.
My hope is that I could export all these looking real nice (see my example above), and create my own custom lookup so that we can have all the information readily available, with more information than a standard stat-block would give you, along with pictures and details (aka what I would think the whole point of a custom-output is).
I got pretty far and was stoked with my results, and then hit this snag, which essentially makes all my work for naught... I would need to look up each creature that has a multi-attack to see how many swings it gets.
Cheers fam
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