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raif11152
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Old November 27th, 2017, 06:16 PM
Is there a feature like the CreatureGen script for Fantasy Grounds or Roll20 that allow you to take a text stat block and HL will parse the text and load it into Hero lab for the purpose of adding monsters or heros?

I searched for previous answers but they were years old. My apologies if this is an old tired subject.
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Old November 28th, 2017, 04:48 PM
Not that I'm aware of. I made a few very custom ones in Excel for D&D 5e. I have one for spells for example and I did make something for monsters once upon a time but it was very bare bones.

It's not going to be possible to fully automate the process. But you can certainly speed the process up.

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Old November 30th, 2017, 07:30 AM
Theoretically speaking, character files are XML (you can open up the portfolio as a ZIP file and then navigate to where the character files are stored, which is not the "XML" folder; that's for Custom Output), so you could probably reverse-engineer it to parse a statblock and build that XML. In practice, it would be a real pain.
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Old November 30th, 2017, 10:06 AM
Plus, especially for 3e, 35e, & to a lesser extent Pathfinder, you have to know all the choices made at each level to accurately re-create that statblock.

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