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If I have been quiet the last days it's because I am currently ill (the flu). Before getting ill I managed to finish covering the PHB for Hero Lab and a few more Magic Items from DMG, as well as adding (optional choosable) the Spellpoint rule from DMG and the (at least for skills, not yet done for Saves and attack rolls) dice-based proficiency optional rule (also optionally choosable).

MagicSN
 
Hang in there dude, get some rest. No rush, still have to wait for the OGL. Thank you again for all the hard work!
 
Yeah no need to burn yourself out over it. Take ya time wait for an OGL announcement. To be fair that should give you plenty of time :)
 
Hi!

Sort of fine again (next week back to work...). And one questions to you people: What do you think: Items with powers, should they give a complete power card for the power? The risk is that the sheet is "cluttered" with powers, having many pages. Or do it like in the DMG where just the name of the power is mentioned. Currently I am doing it a bit inconsistent. Especially for items using charges I often do a powercard for the power (though for items with several powers like Staff of Fire this is a bit "cluttering"), but for most of the new items I entered I only list the name of the power and only have one power card for the complete item.

MagicSN
 
I think that you should keep it brief and avoid the "clutter". I think brief items like potions should be okay for a full desc. But more complex ones will probably need to be condensed.
 
MagicSN what about just making the Description be optional, So the user can choose just the Name or a short description or long description of the magic item or power/ability??
 
Thank you Liz. Hope you, and all the staf at LWD, get all that you want this holiday season. Thank for so many great products and for all that is yet to come.
 
I am now around 50% done with the DMG.

Despite the recent news I decided to finish my own implementation (Well, not THAT much still needing to be done, actually). If the OGL arrives, I will make it available, as promised (I checked back with Liz by email and was told Lone Wolf have no problem with that, actually I was told about the announcement a bit earlier). Like Lone Wolf "assuming the OGL is in a form that will allow publishing of the files".

As Liz pointed out to me, my implementation will require that you have the Authoring Kit. Different to Lone Wolf I won't be interested in including stuff from 3rd party companies. My implementation will support the PHB and the DMG, and possibly other WotC-Content my own local group will use for play.

Reasons are both time-constraints and that I like to keep datafiles free of "clutter" (but I am sure Lone Wolf will do an implementation with all 3rd party stuff, after their recent announcement).

MagicSN
 
Freakin' sweet. maybe now we can take our game to the next level with 5e. BTW, i have a level 2 human Barbarian for 5th and i really love how much better this system is compared to 3.5 and 4. And reading about getting support for it just makes me squeal like a 7th grader.

Just a thought, maybe support could be done in the Encounter Builder for Horde of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat. just an idea though. but that would be so much easier to handle than flipping through the damned books.

just sayin'
 
Great news. Hopefully it won't be too long.

BTW MagicSN. I have the Authoring Kit. So, if you need anyone to playtest it, I'll gladly volunteer - assuming it doesn't break any rules, of course. :)
 
Still nothing on the Wizards front regarding this. It appears we are on Wizards Time which is like the reverse of Doggy Years!
 
ToyFair is in two weeks. After that its either the convention circuit or Origins. I can never figure where WotC thinks they fit in best.
 
Still no word?

This is sad on so many levels. WotC could have a working support in a very short time if they just worked with Lone Wolf.
 
Frodie said:
Looks like the OGL is getting closer -

http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?2459-3rd-Party-Apps-for-5E-Rising-From-The-Dead!
Click to expand...

Well, I hope this is not all. It would be quite some work to strip down my version to the "basic" data (as if I remove something and it is referenced in an other file this will give an error, so I would need to remove all references - which would make keeping in sync with my "private" version where I wouldn't remove a nightmare).

Also the question would be if it is enough to remove stuff from the GUI and it is still in the datafiles (I fear not enough, though).

Still, better than nothing.
 
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