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Review all items, spells, etc.

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HippyCraig

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Is there an easy way to review all items, spells, etc without adding a class to a hero, more of a general lookup window.

For example as a GM I want to easily look up a spell that a player is using even if I dont have his profile loaded on my machine. My players arent using HL to keep track of their characters.
 
I've entered my player's info into HL myself. Makes things easier during play. Two of my players use HL and will give me updated POR files. The other use paper. I print out their character to paper form HL and they either leave their character sheet with me until the next session or I take a picture of the character sheet so that I can update HL. During the game, I only use HL so that I can easily see their stats.
 
RealmWorks is actually the more appropriate tool for a mechanics reference. Waiting patiently for the CM to go live so I can get all the SRD into RW.
 
So I get what your saying but that is a lot of duplicate stuff. How do you think that should be handled. I can see stubbing out a monster in RW but refrencing a profile of the monster for stats that stored in RW that links to HL. But what about spells, I dont think there is a way to stub it out to ref HL, and items, etc.

What do you think?
 
HippyCraig said:
So I get what your saying but that is a lot of duplicate stuff. How do you think that should be handled. I can see stubbing out a monster in RW but refrencing a profile of the monster for stats that stored in RW that links to HL. But what about spells, I dont think there is a way to stub it out to ref HL, and items, etc.

What do you think?
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I'm still very new to HL and am figuring it out. Would be interested in learning how others use the two together. I think of RW as where my core rulebooks and core rulebooks go. HL is the character sheet.

Right now, I'm only linking to HL for actual encounters.

I create my monsters in RW so I get autolinking and can reveal information, rumors, etc. about them to players. I put the statblocks in the article itself. I am thinking of going through and adding links to HL but to do that I have to create a por for each Monster and that is a lot of work. So I'm sticking to only doing it for major encounters where I'll want to use the HL tactical console.

My desire is that when the Content Market is release that I can buy the Monsters as articles and that they will have HL PORs included that I can open if I own HL.

As for spells, there really is no way to "link" them because HL is a character management application, not a reference. If you don't want to have POR files for your player's characters, then you should have the spell information in RW to look it up. Unfortunately, until the CM is released, we will have to enter spells into RW ourselves. I've already add all the spells in RW, so I'm not sure what I'll do when they are available i the CM. I probably won't bother brining them into my realm.
 
I doubt I would review in the application. I'll use the physical books for all my planning etc and then use HL to simply setup what I plan.
 
Just to be sure everyone is on the same page Realm Works and Hero Lab are both products produced by Lone Wolf but have different uses.

I am with MNBlockHead that the "reference" of spells (ie rules) would be most helpful inside of RW not HL. RW is the DM tool for running the game as its a fantastic replacement for pdfs/books.

Then HL would only be for a specific monster/encounter and running the monster (attacks, hit points, conditions). If player suddenly castes Spell X you would want to reference the data inside of RW to see how the spell works.
 
I seem to recall that there was a kind of snippet which translates a portfolio to its statblock and displays that in RW?
 
Aaron said:
I seem to recall that there was a kind of snippet which translates a portfolio to its statblock and displays that in RW?
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Maybe. I know once you attach a .por file inside of RW and you click on the big HL logo it will display the statblock.

I don't know if you mean a way to show the statblock "inline" with the rest of the page. I guess you could view the statblock and simple copy/paste it into text area causing the auto-linkage in RW to find all mechanic references.
 
I guess what I was think is that I can put a monster with some basic details in the Mechanics section in RW and put a POR file to the actual monster for stats. Since the community has put out the missing stuff from the SRD mechanics wise. The spells are also in the pack and it would be nice to link RW to those spells as well so they can be referenced in RW, sort of stubbing out the spell in Mechanics section but pointing to something in HL directly as they get updated as well as the monsters. It would be a waste of time to keep both updated.
 
If I'm adding monsters myself to RW, that's exactly what I do. I never reveal stats to the players, so I don't need them in RW, now that I have HERO labs. I can just click on the HL icon and see the statblock.

However, once the SRD content is in RW, they will need to include the statblocks in a text snippet for those who don't have HL. I am hoping the include both the stats in a text snippet as well as include the POR for those who have HL.
 
I guess it would be nice to reference the Items, Spells, etc. like I would a monster in RW, it would cut down on duplicate data. The community has put a lot of effort in providing the missing content HL I was just hopeing to use some of that data in RW. Since I have both pieces of software I would like to use them to the extent that I can.

I guess that would turn out to be a feature request at this point.
 
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