New D20 Pro User

Welcome Rick!

If you are just starting and want to jump into the 4E settings, check out our 4E survival guide on our Online Manual. The guide should get you started and has files for you to download and replace so that you get 4E feats, skills, etc.

http://help.mindgene.com/advanced/other-rulesets/4e-d-d

Edit: Updated link to new Online Manual

 

Hey Rick,

It is exciting to see you diving head first into the software. Team d20Pro is diving head first into getting our help page polished for v2.0 and continuing our quest to better serve the Mac community. Feel free to email me directly if you need anything, but I think you found your 4E match in Daniel. He is a d20Pro and 4E guru...

 

The classes.txt has very little in it.

I'm glad I backed up my files before I started replacing files.

 

You are correct raethyn. d20pro, by design, is NOT a game and doesn't enforce rules. It's a virtual tabletop tool that lets you run your game as you see fit. The classes file only has BAB and spell lists / per day values. That's it. Feats are in a feats.txt file but you can specify your own in the software (feats tab). Skills simply record the name, category, and ability score that governs them.

This gives you a good deal of flexibility for house rules and other systems. You can set any value for any creature to whatever you want.

If you are looking for more automation, you should check out some of the fine character creation programs out there, like Hero Labs (3.5 systems) and WOTC's Character Builder (4.0). d20pro officially supports those file types and will seamlessly import your character files from those programs! Yep, if you import a WOTC 4E character from the builder file, d20pro correctly creates at-will, per-day, etc abilities (in your abilities tab), creates attacks for powers, and even sets your attributes, skills, feats, etc. All you would have to do is place those 4E text files (available on the wiki page above) into your d20pro\dm\res\manually specified folder and overwrite them.

 

So, Dan, that's precisely what I want to do, import characters / test from hero labs and / or character builder into d20 pro. I have copied the files from the wiki page. I am able to make 4th edition characterrs and creatures in d20 pro with no problem, but I have no idea how to import . . . it would sure save me a bunch of typing . . .

Guy Runkle

 

To import from the D&D Character Builder:

• Open d20pro ad a Judge
• Click on the d20pro start icon (top left) and choose Library
• Click on the Creature Library icon
• Click on the Import button
• Browse to the location of your DDI character files
• Double-click on the character you want to import
• Your imported character will be in the Library under the module: WotC 4th Edition - it doesn't import images, but pretty much everything else.

 

Sweet! The pictures are no problem because importing a picture is a snap anyway.

One odd thing (no big deal) when I first import the character, they don't show up in the library. They're there when I close and reopen though. Is that a bug?

Guy

 

It is and is already fixed in version 2.0.3, soon to be released. Look for it within a couple of weeks. We are testing it now.