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I've written an app that takes Hero Lab save files and converts them into tokens for Maptool. The tokens have on them a rich set of macros like attack rolls, saving throw rolls, skill/ability rolls, feats, spells and so on which are taken out from the Hero Lab save files.

Here's a quick video going over the basics of the app.

The app is written in Python, but I have compiled binaries for Linux, Windows and Mac. You can download the app and see some more tutorial vids at the hl2mt project page.

If anyone has any questions or feature requests, please let me know.


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Rather than blanks, I'd prefer to see core pack releases. For example Bestiary 1, Advanced Players Guide classes, Inner Sea World locations, Ultimate Equipment, Ultimate Magic, etc.

And rather than ranking the monsters/cards off of AP1, 2, etc they could mark them with CR1, 2, etc(CR = Core Rules) to give you an idea of the card power levels.

This would allow people to create their own adventures by mixing and matching things from the stock core game. Paizo could also release conversions of popular modules pulling in cards from the various core sets.

If the card game remained popular I could almost imagine Pathfinder splitting out into a sort of dual release thing. Companions, Chronicles, Modules, etc all coming out with card packs along with their usual rpg component. The artwork is recyclable and the marketing could pretty easily point to both product lines.


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Uncle Fred wrote:
Title sums it up. Been looking around, both on this site and elsewhere for an non Play by Post online campaign so as to be able to game during the week from the comfort of my own house. I haven't been all that successful in finding anything though. Any suggestions?

There best place is to start at the tool being used and then look in the forums for that. The top 3 tools I know of: do20pro, maptools and Fantasy Grounds 2.

For maptools: http://forums.rptools.net/viewforum.php?f=23

Fantasy Grounds: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=40

And there's a Pathfinder Society for Fantasy Grounds that just recently started up and is very very active: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/fg2pfs/

I'd recommend joining the last group and watching the videos they've created. They have games running pretty much every weekend.


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Elorebaen wrote:
I think it would be more useful if Paizo were to offer generic VTT art packs. Additionally, until d20Pro can offer something like LMs Pathfinder macro framework in Maptool,I don't think they should get "official" support. At this stage, offering generic VTT support is a good thing, though.

+1

Fantasy Grounds is another solid VTT with a good Pathfinder framework and a store to download modules.

I think it'd be interesting for Paizo to offer generic VTT support and then allow each of the VTT products to bring that into their system. FG could mod the base VTT and put it into their store, same with d20pro and for Maptools I'm sure someone would put up a converter to bring the base AP/Module into a Maptool's framework.