[Hero Lab] Version 7.8 of the Pathfinder files for Hero Lab is now available. Animal Archive!

[Mathias Gehl]

A new update for the Pathfinder files for Hero Lab is now available from the automatic updates mechanism within Hero Lab.

We've got a new book in this update, Player's Companion: Animal Archive. This is the first book in a new Player's Companion: Golarion #5 package. This package is available for $4.99, and will get 1-2 more player's companion books, to be announced as Paizo releases more of them.

We've added a new tool in this update - the Bestiary Monster Creator. This implements Appendix 1: Monster Creation from Bestiary 1 (pgs 290-293) as a set of tools and guidelines that will allow you to enter the statistics and abilities for a new monster, and then see how those compare to the suggested statistics for a monster of the CR you have chosen. This tool is a free update for any of our users who own the Bestiary 1 package. This package is available for $14.99, or, we have a Bestiary bundle - all three of our Bestiary packages for $29.99, which is about a $5 savings over buying them individually.

We've got 7 more of the classes from the NPC codex added in this update. We'll keep working at this until we have every NPC and iconic in that book available for use in Hero Lab. The NPC codex NPCs are free for all of our users.

Support for the Reign of Winter adventure path also begins in this update. We've got the player's guide for this adventure path and the player content from the first issue, #67.

If you're not familiar with Hero Lab, please head over to the Hero Lab page of our website. There, you can download the program in demo mode and try it out. The only things you won't be able to do in demo mode are save and print (although you can see the print preview), so that you can give it a thorough test before you decide to purchase our program.

Another option if you'd like to try Hero Lab is our Hero Lab for the Pathfinder Beginner Box program. This program is free, and does support saving and printing, and allows you to make heroes and monsters from the Pathfinder Beginner Box.

[Daijin]

How does one access the Bestiary Monster Creator? I have the Bestiary Package 1-3 and the Animal Archive golarion 5 package. But do not see any such tool?

[Mathias Gehl]

When you're creating your character, set it as an NPC, and turn on the "Average HPs at New Levels" optional rule, then select the race "Bestiary Monster Creator" on the Background tab.

[Daijin]

Awesome, thank you! :)

[Elorebaen]

Thank you for the update!

[dartnet]

The monster creator is one of the most best parts of a great product.

It also checks your math so your monster's CR is where it should be,

Now I can use ANY d20 Monster in HL you folks rock!

Looks at Monster Manuel III...Cackles....

Now if we cold get a Template creator......

[Mathias Gehl]

dartnet wrote:

Now if we cold get a Template creator......

Talk Paizo into writing a set of guidelines and parameters for it, like they wrote this set of monster building guidelines, and we'll implement it as a tool in Hero Lab.

[Deanoth]

Still can't make an Eye Tyrant/Beholder though... hehe. Though in the editor I was able to at least :)

[Hayato Ken]

How can i add spell focus water or something like that to a wizard?