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Okay, looks like I was just confusing myself with the Hero Lab set up - thank you so much for all your help in taking the extra time to break that down for me, I think I've got it now.

Looks like that's just giving you final calculations for the related to-hit bonuses....

...both BAB and Attack Bonus on that sheet mean the same thing.

OH, that makes perfect sense! Thank you both so much for reading / replying. It really cleared it up for me, and I can pass that on to my players. (I'm sort of getting a trial by fire as a new GM here, but Pathfinder has been tons of fun. It's awesome that the community is so helpful too.)

Edit: The longsword Bizonder is using has a +5 melee attached - could that end up translating to a stray +1 or is that something else entirely (ie, counting the BAB as well as the Attack bonus which you've helpfully pointed out is the same thing)?

Do I use the weapon's attack bonus, the one I've shown in the screenshot, or is that Hero lab attempting to calculate the final number for me?

So I'm a bit of a newb and any clarification on this matter would be super useful (I've searched around and can't seem to figure it out) so thanks for checking this out!

Anyway, I get what melee attack / ranged attack means when it's associated with weapons, but what about the figure that seems completely unaffiliated?

I'll attach a screenshot if possible, but if not I mean the values you can see in the Beginner Box Hero Lab character profile under "Basics" - specifically: "BAB", "Attack Bonus", "(Melee)", and "(Ranged).

Here's the screenshot for context.