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Right now I use Kyle Olson's Combat Manager along with a browser open to the PRD and the D20pfsrd. I also use Hero Lab as a character creation tool. If the price tag of Hero Lab scares you (it did me for two years, but after purchasing I haven't looked back) there is always the free software PCGen. These are the only software tools I've ever needed to run a successful Pathfinder campaign for the past few years.
If you are looking for a form fillable character sheet there are several out there, many of which are free. The best place to check for these types of sheets is the Pathfinder Database. Although if you search the boards here you'll find some community created ones as well. I hope this helps!
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I second Combat Manager and Hero Lab. You can create all your PCs in Hero Lab and import them seamlessly into Combat Manager. Then all you have to do is throw some monsters (or NPCs you have from Hero Lab) into Combat Manager as well and you're ready to run combat quickly and (relatively) painlessly. d20pfsrd.com is also a really cool resource.
I absolutely LOVE Combat Manager and use it religiously. I don't currently use any character creation tool though because too many of my characters have too much custom stuff, including custom races.
HeroLab is a good program, the output is a little lacking. And I've found that adding anything terribly complex is fairly hard. But then I'm a bit biased towards how PCGen handles data. :)
Anyone know any good map making programs? Seems easier than tons of graph paper.
Dundjinni is one. I use Gimp too. There's a bunch of them, but those two should do anything you need.
Anyone know any good map making programs? Seems easier than tons of graph paper.
i've been experimenting with campaign cartographer 3. it's a good program, and with all the add ons you can use it for pretty much anything... but the price tag is astronomical. here in western australia it's cheaper to buy all of the pathfinder books new from the local store than to get a full set of campaign cartographer from off the net. (i only bought it because i have non-gaming applications for it as well.)
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Dundjinni is one. I use Gimp too. There's a bunch of them, but those two should do anything you need.
From what I gathered in the forums, Dundjinni store doesn't work and the developer is on some year+ long hiatus leaving support up to a forum admin who has to share updates via dropbox.
Or I'm completely misunderstanding the news threads.
Ah, well thankyou! I will most likely be shying away from expensive programs. =P (now if i can just figure out how to draw on other parts in gimp after stroking a path....sounds oddly dirty.)
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Ah, well thankyou! I will most likely be shying away from expensive programs. =P (now if i can just figure out how to draw on other parts in gimp after stroking a path....sounds oddly dirty.)
Cartographer's Guild has some tutorials for GIMP and plenty of other stuff, too.
Another option is to pick up MapTools and create some maps that way...bonus that it's already kind of "optimized" for gaming maps.
Find a whole mess of free textures, tiles, icons, and monsters (top down view or token style) and watch the tutorials, you could build gaming maps fairly quickly that way. Other VTT's have editors too.