importing from bestiaries not as simple as it should...

[tahltwo]

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please help me understand why "pharaonic guardian" is not under it's name in bestiary 5 (n-s).stock as it should be, and why i am not able to find it -- where would it be?

thanks.

 

[Mathias]

Why look stock portfolio by stock portfolio? Gamemaster...Show Encounter Builder gives you access to every stock portfolio (and regular portfolio) in that folder.

 

[tahltwo]

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thanks! that helps, but still didn't answer my question :-D

 

[Mathias]

I'm sorry, but we don't have any better tools for figuring this out than to open lots of portfolios, and the October release is coming soon, so we're very busy right now.

 

[Farling]

So the answer is to either use some sort of script to search through all the files, or manually load each file until you find it

 

[Ualaa]

If I open hero lab and click on the Background Tab.
Then go the Race field, and click that.

In the search box, I type 'Phara' that displays the Pharaonic Guardian in the bottom quarter of filtered races.
That's how I would select a race, if I were building a monster within a portfolio.



Going with Game Master > Encounter Builder...
Using the search field, and again entering 'Phara' displays the creature as the third from the bottom (although I could scroll further down) creature, on my display.

I generally only use the Encounter Builder, when I've purchased a bestiary/hero-lab-file for an adventure and they've included npcs/creatures in this format. Numerous NPCs (not even monsters) from Rappan Athuk can be found this way, but they're not 'races' from the 'Background Tab'.