NPC Gold

[Dgrm44]

How do you add Gold to NPCs in Herolab?

 

[Adam.Ormond]

I think there are three ways:

1) Configure Hero -- add money to starting wealth
2) Journal -- you can add money and XP
3) buy something for free, and sell it for whatever

 

[Dgrm44]

NPC has no journal tab.

 

[EberronKnight]

I easily Configure the NPC when I first created it with starting wealth and it takes it.
You could also use the Gear tab and create a custom valuable as money.

EK

 

[Zandari]

Remember, you can always go back to Configure Hero AFTER you have created the NPC and modify the starting wealth there. I actually didn't realize that for the first month or so. I would create a PC, realize I hadn't ticked one of the sources, grumble dirty words for a minute, then start over. I had no idea the taskbar could take you back to Configure Hero.

 

[Dgrm44]

Wish we could edit Gold directly and Herolab would auto-recalculate the weight.

 

[Paris.Crenshaw]

There are two ways that you can "trick" HL into giving you gold.

1. In the Gear tab, add an item and pay "negative" gold for it. (For example, choose to add "Custom gear" and then give it a value of -200 gold pieces.) Then, go back and remove the item. Even selling it for 100% of its value will yield a return of 0 gp, but you'll still have the money in your Wealth total and HL will automatically calculate the weight.

2. Under "Configure Hero", temporarily make the NPC into a PC to restore the Journal tab. Add your required wealth and then go back into "Configure Hero" to make the character an NPC, again.

Both of these methods require a few more clicks, but they accomplish what you're looking for without too much trouble.