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4th Edition Survival Guide

Discussion in 'D&D 4th Edition' started by Dan, Jul 11, 2008.

  1. Dan

    Dan Member

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    Hello 4th Edition folks!

    I wanted to notify you of a page on our official wiki that gives tips and tricks for using d20pro with D&D 4th Edition rules.

    D20pro is natively a 3.5 product, but it does "play nicely" with other systems and editions. Follow some of the tips on our 4E Help to make things run smoothly.
     
    #1 Dan, Jul 11, 2008
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    Edit: Fixed the link to the guide.
     
    #2 Dan, Aug 16, 2009
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    Link doesn't seem to work yet.

    Guy
     
    #3 GuyPRunkle, Dec 3, 2009
  4. Dan

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    #4 Dan, Dec 3, 2009
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    I've noticed that to use d20Pro for 4E games you need to replace original files. I'm assuming you'll need to do the same for other variations such as Pathfinder. If I'm going to be wanting to run multiple rule sets, what is the best way to set up the files?

    V
     
    #5 vardeman, Jun 12, 2010
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    There might be more elegant answers, but this will work.

    Assuming you start d20pro with one of the bat files, edit the file to copy your txt files before you start. (If you don't start d20 with a bat file, there isn't any reason not too).

    What I would recommend.

    Name the 4e files something like this skills.4e, feats.4e, etc. Do the same with other game systems.

    Then edit your d20pro.bat file to include the following (before any of the code already in the bat file).

    Del *.txt
    copy *.4e *.txt

    Save ande close the bat file with a new name like d204e.bat

    Test the bat file and make sure you get the desired results. Once confirmed, repeat the process with your other game systems.

    As always, backup your original txt and bat files, just in case things don't go as planned.
     
    #6 Thurgian, Jun 12, 2010
  7. vardeman

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    Heh... haven't played with .bat files since my DOS days... Didn't even occur to me that they existed any more. Thanks!

    V
     
    #7 vardeman, Jun 12, 2010
  8. Dan

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    Alternatively, you could install d20pro multiple times into different folders (d20pro4E, d20proPF, etc). THere's no restriction to the installs on your machine.

    Put the ruleset txt files into the proper version.
     
    #8 Dan, Jun 12, 2010
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    Not sure if this was a bad idea or not, but I copied the D&D 3.5 Campaign folder and renamed it D&D 4e, replaced the files mentioned within that folder to the 4e ones. Then when launching D20Pro I just pick the D&D 4e campaign. Thought by doing that then I also have access to the 3.5 files without having to manual copy/replace depending on what I want to run. Is this a bad way of doing it?
     
    #9 l8knight, Mar 15, 2012
  10. Dan

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    Excellent way actually. My previous post was written before we had Campaigns as a feature!
     
    #10 Dan, Mar 26, 2012
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