Stat blocks. What are they ?

[Vampyre]

Hi all,

It's me again with my very stupid questions. I noticed I could create a stat block. I also noticed it's possible to import it from HL (which I don't own yet, still figuring out if I could design a full system in it). When I wanted to create one, I had a blank HTML page. And now I'm lost.

Could you tell me what exactly are stat blocks ? I thought I would have different fields in which to fill with characters stats, but... Yeah, still very lost with that. How do you guys use the stats blocks ?

Many thanks

Vampyre

 

[Parody]

It's just the text/HTML/Word Document/whatever of the character's stats in a format that the players and/or GMs of the system will recognize. If you've seen a modern D&D or Pathfinder module, you know that all the NPC and monster stats look the same. In Realm Works, a stat block snippet is a place for you to put this type of information. As you've discovered, it's likely something you'd set up with a game-specific tool (or Word or whatever) and paste or import into the character's entry in Realm Works.

 

[Vampyre]

Thanks

Thanks for the fast answer.

Yeap I can see easily it could be very time consuming doing this manually (if I have to do that for every single NPC I could have in a campaign). I see the advantages of it (having all the stats required by a NPC at my disposal, without the need to search for it), but to take full advantage of such blocks, I should most probably do the work only once in HL.

Thanks for the answer ! And good gaming !

 

[Vampyre]

Time to answer myself

Okay guys,

After having searched and searched again, I finally managed to have an idea of what a stat block was. This is the stat block I just finished. I had it designed inside libre office, but for a reason, I couldn't import it inside RW. So I managed doing it all just inside RW, and now I have my statblock.

What's even better, is that I can save it as being empty, and call it at will for any new stat block, so I have a nice integrity in my stat blocks. Very happy.

For any comments, feel free to do so (and yes, I'm french speaking )

 

[Madmaxneo]

I'm also having a problem with stat blocks. I like what you did, but how did you create that inside RW? When I go to edit stat blocks I get a blank document page, if it is in HTML I am screwed because I don't know HTML.

Bruce

 

[Parody]

It's edited the same way you edit any text snippet; the presentation is just different. To do a table you can insert a table (on the right end of the Format ribbon) and do the formatting yourself, paste in from Excel, copy from the web, or however else you'd normally do it.

 

[Vampyre]

As you say, when you edit the stat block, you get a blank page. From there, as Parody mentioned it, I created a table, and played with it, merging cells, dividing others, and formatting them.

The very same as you do in Excel. Personally I don't have Excel, and copying pasting from Libre Office just imported the text. So, I did it in a table in the editor. No need for HTML knowledge, it's just like a word processor.

 

[AEIOU]

That's a great looking stat block. Concise and well organized. Nicely done.

 

[Madmaxneo]

As you say, when you edit the stat block, you get a blank page. From there, as Parody mentioned it, I created a table, and played with it, merging cells, dividing others, and formatting them.

The very same as you do in Excel. Personally I don't have Excel, and copying pasting from Libre Office just imported the text. So, I did it in a table in the editor. No need for HTML knowledge, it's just like a word processor.

I didn't think it would be that easy. The character sheets I use are at least two pages with the stats and other info on the first page and the skills/spells on the second page. So I'll just copy and paste everything into RW. Thanks everyone!

Bruce