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D&D 5e Community Pack

panda said:
Go in the Editor then Help and there are tutorials
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@Maikera, I can't agree with this enough. Aaron, one the data file authors, has put together some amazing documentation to assist users just like you. I've even been following along and learning some new tricks to put custom content in for my game. It's really helpful.
 
XML or HTML format?

Hey guys! Wow! I didn't know this was available! My name is John Reyst and I run the 5e SRD (www.5eSRD.com) as well as the Pathfinder SRD (and others). Would it be possible to get this data in a non-binary format (XML, HTML, plain text etc.)? I'd love to put this up on the SRD!
 
Frodie said:
I think you can view the xml at - https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab
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Hi,

I'm one of those working on the 5e hero lab community pack. Though, I am not in any way speaking for the others helping with the community pack, this is just my uninformed self offering (perhaps blindingly obvious) unsolicited advice with no legal standing whatsoever. :)

Anyway, in case you're thinking of using the community pack stuff on the 5esrd pages, do note that you should probably talk to one of Daplunk, Sklore or ShadowChemosh first, but hopefully one of them will notice this conversation.

You'll probably also want to vet the files before using anything from them. I'm sure there are places where our paraphrasing is insufficient, we've probably used a few terms we shouldn't, and there are still a lot of things with the description 'Placeholder'. (If it's just for your private use, of course, that's not likely to matter.)

The file quality will get better over time, especially if more people help - kind of like 5esrd.com :)

/Jonas
 
New to Hero Lab. Thanks for the effort in getting the Community pack out. I have a question about all the "placeholder" content descriptions. Will that be filled in, in future updates? Is the expectation that I should fill it in myself using the editor? If I fill it in myself, will future updates "roll back" my content edits to just display "Placeholder" again?
 
jfjohnny5 said:
New to Hero Lab. Thanks for the effort in getting the Community pack out. I have a question about all the "placeholder" content descriptions. Will that be filled in, in future updates? Is the expectation that I should fill it in myself using the editor? If I fill it in myself, will future updates "roll back" my content edits to just display "Placeholder" again?
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They'll be replaced as people find the time to write up text for the item in question (note that in many cases the original text cannot be used. For instance, if it's not in the srd (or for third party publishers if it's not declared Open Content) we can't use it, and must therefore paraphrase the text). I.e. no guarantees on when, but the commonly used stuff will probably be done within a reasonably low number of versions.

You certainly can fill them in yourself, but they will be overwritten by the next update. The easiest way to get around that is of course to get your (paraphrased) text included in the Community Pack. Probably easiest to do by creating an issue here:
https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues
and add a file with your suggested replacements for Placeholder. Kind of like Gwaithador did here:
https://github.com/Sklore/HL_DD_5e_Colab/issues/285
(Of course, if you happen to be comfortable with github, sending pull requests and/or patches to the .user files works too.)

/Jonas
 
xdy said:
Anyway, in case you're thinking of using the community pack stuff on the 5esrd pages, do note that you should probably talk to one of Daplunk, Sklore or ShadowChemosh first, but hopefully one of them will notice this conversation.
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Yes please do this as this can get into a sticky situation with the fact that some of these Wikies are setup to "make" money. Meaning taking others work and making "money" is to me not acceptable.

I have run into this before with the Pathfinder material where 3PP companies have taken the community work incorporated into "paid" products and made money from it. Once things move out of "free" gaming groups things get sticky and I admit I get protective of the free time/effort my editors put into the Packs. This includes my own money paying for a IP/Copyright lawyer before....

Please free to take this offline and discuss. I can be emailed at my forum user id at yahoo dot com.

Thanks
 
Shadow: I emailed you the .user file as requested.

I posted this to the wrong place.
 
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Can someone point me to a detailed tutorial on how to add beasts, or monsters to hero lab. I would like to help contribute to this project, but am unable to find a walk through that does not leave a ton of stuff up to interpretation, or assuming prior knowledge of hero lab editing.
 
Tutorials can be found through the help menu in the editor. Your not making monsters though. Your making a race so perhaps check out that tutorial. Most of us have learnt how to do this via making a new (copy) in the editor of an already existing thing. You simply look at the thing and figure out how it was done and then copy the method over to your new 'thing'. There's pretty much another thing that has done everything somewhere in the data.
 
Beasts are in the SRD, I suppose Lone Wolf will add them soon.
Best is to look how race (monsters) are done by doing copy of existing one and look at them, after following all the tutorials.
 
I posted the last of the PHB replacement text in GitHub. Hopefully, with the next update, all the classes in the PHB will now have appropriate text instead of "placeholder" which should make the printed sheets look cool and give us all a sense of completeness. :)
 
I think alot of people will enjoy the next release. I used the early build in a game yesterday and was very happy.

The next but chunk of place holders that's needs replacing is the backgrounds if anyone would like to have a go at changing those to be 20% different just send me a text document and we will update the code.
 
Thanks everyone. I was able to copy the class, but it would not show up in the encounter builder only as a race when creating a character.


EDIT: Crap nevermind you said RACE not CLASS>
 
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So I've created several characters successfully in the community pack, and results have been dead on - yay! - but I just ran into trouble with my mid-level bard; Can't seem to find where the 'Expertise' (for skills) selections are made. It detects that I haven't made expertise selections (I get the validation splat with the message: "Expertise: You must choose an option.") - but I've been going through all the options for quite a while and just cannot find where to make the selection...
 
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