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For the monsters, here's an idea: use Hero Lab's d20pro output option.
Doesn't help you with the maps, line of sight, fog of war, etc, but it is a start at least.
Hey, Sozin! Thank you for your input!
I own a Pathfinder HeroLab license. For my time and effort, simply using D20's creature generator built into the library function eclipses HeroLab's ability to replicate a quality creature entry. There are several things that the Herolab generator is great for (creating NPC's on the fly, multiclassing in general and filling out my 13 year old son's Druid character come to mind) but, for a D20 creature entry, it is lacking. There is too much mandatory data you will never use in D20, and the entry process takes too takes to long. If there is a way to create an entry as a non-player race, it has eluded me. And the entry just doesn't translate well. You can whip up an entry using the library function in maybe five minutes, literally, and you will know exactly how it will run in d20pro. It takes longer to find a good picture than to make a relatively sophisticated creature using the D20pro creature entry window.
I love Herolab and D20 has done what many other software publishers have failed to: Make an easy to use online product that streamlines combat. Coupled with google plus for face time, it has brought me face to face with some of my best friends again. Tuesday is now my favorite day of the week. It is our online Pathfinder day. I have three happy new converts.
My point is that I have more money than time, and I'm happy to give both to Paizo. Just not along the vein of the forty hours it will take me to have a respectable creature library.
Also- not having to enter my own maps and creatures would be awesome. Hopefully there is enough of a following building to make something like this feasible.
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Well, if you are not aware I had created the entire Bestiary I into D20pro, it is available on their forums in the user created content section.It is not 100 % accurate but I am revising it slowly as I go (it is a slow and tedious process to get everything to the standard I want). When I finish with one I will start two and three which will go much faster as I will have a lot of the abilities and spells pre programmed in but they are still very very far off. Its is not hard to do, just mind numbingly boring and time consuming.
You have went to "Portfolio", then chosen "Import Stock Hero" right? That's what I use to download all my encounters, and modify them from there. I also have bought all the Bestiaries, so I'm perfectly happy with that.
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Pretending to to Vic here, I'm guessing the problem with publishing paizo vtt blessed files are: 1) Platform: there are multiple VTT products out there - d20pro, MapTool, ttoprpg, and FantasyGrounds to name a few - do you pick just one to support, and essentially take a side, or do you try to support them all, which is inefficient/annoying? 2) IP: the maps, portraits and pogs are valuable intellectual property, and - despite the advancements due to paizo embracing pdf technology as a distribution mechanism - distributing that digital content in VTT format edges right up against the confort line; 3) Labor: finding someone in-house to build the VTT solution (assuming #1 is solved).
It's a tricky thicket.
EDIT: my solution in this space (as a MapTool user) was to build my own. See the TokenLab home page. That, and a pretty rich set of MapTools vtt files for Rise of the Runelords (50% complete), Council of Thieves (80% complete), various modules, and about 60% of all the Society scenarios - which, because of the CUP, will never see the light of day. (And I don't have a problem with that at all - it is Paizo's hard won property!)
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Well, if you are not aware I had created the entire Bestiary I into D20pro, it is available on their forums in the user created content section.It is not 100 % accurate but I am revising it slowly as I go (it is a slow and tedious process to get everything to the standard I want). When I finish with one I will start two and three which will go much faster as I will have a lot of the abilities and spells pre programmed in but they are still very very far off. Its is not hard to do, just mind numbingly boring and time consuming.
Big Killa- Well, thank you for saying hello!
I am a fan of your work! Thank you for making my life easier. I am indeed aware that you contributed a massive block of your time and likely your sanity. I found your map (to make for a more efficient download all the creatures were dropped on to a map page one can import) and downloaded it a couple of months ago. And you are of course, right. If one is a stickler for detail, there are some stats that need to be double checked before encounters begin, but for the most part, your work is invaluable to me. (Those days when one needs a couple of trolls to drop in on a particularly righteous paladin come to mind.)Thank you so much for your contribution to the community!
I know how much work this must've been and I respect that.