HL DnD 5e SRD Workflow for Idiot DMs

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by MNBlockHead

Okay, so my prior post was a bit too pessimistic. Doesn't make sense to take a creature and try to edit within the main interface. Copying a race and making the edits in the editor are pretty easy, especially when working from a similar race.

Correct and the more of them you do the more you will get the hang of it. After a while you should start picking up in the script logic and being able to do all sorts of fun monsters!

For my pathfinder games I also found it helpful to make special "Templates" that can be applied to any monster to give unique abilities from a list. In example one template causes a new tab to appear where I select from among dozens of special Boss abilities I have created. This allows me a very quick method of making "unique" monsters.

Most of the mechanics for Templates I think is in 5e even if its called something else. This is more advanced but features like this could also be built into special parts of the 5e Community Pack for sharing then.