I need a system to generate me spell books and/or lists for my players, who are all largely new to the game. I have found some on-line generators, but I'd rather have a generator that gives me a list or spells with a short description that I can store, update and print off for them, rather than mess about with spell-cards for each and every player.
I've used PCGen, but it doesn't seem to have the latest content from Paizo. I've looked at HeroLab, and it seems a much slicker program, but I get the feeling it assumes every player is updating and working on their own character sheets when I need something I can print off and hand out.
Does anyone know of a suitable system?
Could work, thanks. Any other suggestions out there?
If you want a free spell daily spell list I would suggest Daily Spell List (PFRPG), its easy to use and its free. You could also try Ultimate Spell Decks: Blank Spell Cards (PFRPG) it cost 99 cents and you can use them for any class or if you make you own spells. Hope these are helpful.
I've looked at HeroLab, and it seems a much slicker program, but I get the feeling it assumes every player is updating and working on their own character sheets when I need something I can print off and hand out.
Hero Lab allows you to print your spellbook or just the memorized spells for a character. If you want to print a list of spells for your game, you can create a character, add all the spells you want to that character's spellbook (ignoring normal limits), and then print out that spellbook.
You can give all this a try within the demo version of Hero Lab to see if it will do what you want. You won't be able to physically print the spellbook, but you can use Print Preview to see exactly what it will output and then make your assessment.
Hope this helps!
Aha! I did look for that feature, but I couldn't see it anywhere. I shall look again! Thanks Rob!
Aha! I did look for that feature, but I couldn't see it anywhere. I shall look again! Thanks Rob!
Try the following...
1. Create a new character.
2. Make it a spellcaster by adding levels of the appropriate class, such as Wizard.
3. Go to the class tab.
4. Click on the Spellbook icon at the left.
5. Add the desired spells to the spellbook.
6. Go to the File menu and select Print Preview, which will show you the character sheet.
7. Click the Dossiers button at the top of the preview window, which will show you the various output options available.
8. Select one of the "Spells in Spellbook" options and click OK.
Hope this helps!
I've used PCGen, but it doesn't seem to have the latest content from Paizo. I've looked at HeroLab, and it seems a much slicker program, but I get the feeling it assumes every player is updating and working on their own character sheets when I need something I can print off and hand out.
In PCGen, you can buy a spellbook (or make a simple character that has the needed stats and level), and then on the Spells tab select that spell book and add all the spells till the pages are filled up.
We also have several different spell specific output sheets. My personal is the spellbook.fo under the PDF output.
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The Spell DB on d20pfsrd.com can do this with some work.
You can sort to get the spells levels you want and there is a field called short_description which is populated for the core spells.
hide the columns you don't need and print.
The Spell DB is awesome!
What I do, and this is shameless self promotion, is use Perram's Spellbook to make spell cards for the class, and when I need random books, I draw random spell cards of the appropriate levels. Its completely free and was made using Mike's Spell DB, which as I said already, is awesome.
Another great resource is Happy Camper's Character Sheets which has nice forms to keep track of spells! These are the character sheets I use most.
The dark and evil system I use is to list all spells in three groups: Core or common spells; restricted but available; and rare, forbidden, effectively unknown, etc. I set the book's user's level and set the spells per level.
D6: 1-5 common spell; 6 go to the restricted and roll again; another 6 puts you on the rare list. None of these lists currently exceed 20, so I just roll till I get 'X' spells.
I really need to learn enough programing to get this as a program, but the last program I wrote was in '78!
That siad, I strongly recommend Raging Swan's 'what's the spell book like anyway'