New free web based tool for Monster Summoners - Pathfinder Summoner's Scribe

[Metal Sonic]

You are the boss, man. Awesome tool.

[Qu0zl]

Thanks a lot for all the kind words everybody.

If anybody has feedback after using this, I'd be interested.

It seems intuitive and sensible to me but that's because I built it! So if there's anything really annoying, un-intuitive or stupid that I'm doing in it, please let me know :)

[Endzeitgeist]

I love your tool and from my group's celestial commander, a heartfelt thank you! As a suggestion - if you can make a custom-tab where one can add individual modifications for e.g. 3pp-feats, story bonuses or the like, this would take the absolute awesome cake!

Thank you so much!

[master4sword]

Used it tonight as the GM - the party was up against a group of summoners, so this gave me easy access to the fiendish critters I was throwing around. Worked wonderfully! Perhaps we could get the background of the statblocks a different color (light gray?) than the page background, so if we have multiple creatures generated they stand out a bit more?

[Qu0zl]

Endzeitgeist, I'm delighted you like it. I do like the idea of a custom tab for custom feats but it'd be too big a job for me to do, too many time commitments unfortunately.

Master4sword that's a good idea about varying the background color. I'll do that but I'll leave them all as white when printed as otherwise it'd be hard on printer ink. You were using them on an electronic device right, not print outs?

[Devilkiller]

Maybe a bigger, fancier font for the monster names and or a fancy top and bottom border would make them stand out more when printed? Either way this looks like a great phone app I could show folks which might make them consider trying out summoning.

[DM Papa.DRB]

Love this !!

I am playing a druid now (in a PbP) so this is terrific as he will be doing a lot of summons. Also in my home game, there is a druid and she will be summoning so just plugging the information in makes it very easy.

I do have a small request. On the main page (MAIN) can you add all the SNA and SM under the Groups drop down. Makes it easier to find, thanks,

-- david

[Qu0zl]

You mean have the links to them on the main page as well as the drop-down? Sure, I can do that.

Was it awkward to find them under the drop-down?

[ElterAgo]

I printed off a couple, but then after printing couldn't remember if that was the Bralani with Augment Summoning or not.
Maybe have the name with templates applied.
"Dire Lion with Augment Summoning and Celestial"
Then give the stats.

[DM Papa.DRB]

Qu0zl wrote:

You mean have the links to them on the main page as well as the drop-down? Sure, I can do that.

Was it awkward to find them under the drop-down?

Not awkward. The SNA 6,7,8,9 were not on the drop-down.

[master4sword]

Qu0zl wrote:

Endzeitgeist, I'm delighted you like it. I do like the idea of a custom tab for custom feats but it'd be too big a job for me to do, too many time commitments unfortunately.

Master4sword that's a good idea about varying the background color. I'll do that but I'll leave them all as white when printed as otherwise it'd be hard on printer ink. You were using them on an electronic device right, not print outs?

Yeah, I was using them via computer. Didn't think about how my suggestion would affect printing, but it seems you've got that covered.

[Tacticslion]

So awesome! Thanks!

[Agres]

This tool really does look top notch I just printed out some of the critters I tend to use and so far this really does look like it's going to speed things up. Before this I was actually using Combat Manager. One thing I noticed is that not every ability is given a full explanation (specifically Stun with the ankylosaurus summon) This is not a major issue however if it could be added it would perfect what is already a wonderful tool.

[Qu0zl]

DM Papa.DRB wrote:

Qu0zl wrote:

You mean have the links to them on the main page as well as the drop-down? Sure, I can do that.

Was it awkward to find them under the drop-down?

Not awkward. The SNA 6,7,8,9 were not on the drop-down.

Interesting. They are appearing there for me. Perhaps the end of the groups list is getting chopped off by your browser and there's something I can do to make it work for you. What hardware & browser are you using? You're sure they're not appearing for you?

[Qu0zl]

Elterago, it already puts (Augment Summons) in brackets after the name of they're augmented. I should add celestial, fiendish etc too.

[Qu0zl]

Agres, I'll add the stun explanation text.

[DM Papa.DRB]

Yea, looks like they are getting chopped off.

Firefox 38.01 - shows thru SNA5
IE 11 - shows thru SNA6
Chrome 43.0.2357.81 m - shows thru SNA7

There is not a "slide bar" on the right side so I can see the rest of the links.

Windows 7, 64 bit home premium

This is really bloody strange.

-- david

[master4sword]

I only see through SNA 5, but I think that's because it hits the bottom of the screen and I can't scroll to the rest.

[Jeremias]

I love this thing! I searched for a long time for something like that and I will definitely use it today. Thank you very much!

And, contributing to the discussion: It depends on the font size of the webpage. I tried to shrink it (Firefox) and voilá: The missing drop-down entries show!

[Qu0zl]

I'll do something like putting them into sub categories (SM, SNA etc) to sort that out. Starting a new job today so will be a little while till I do the tweaks I've committed to above :-)

[Qu0zl]

Groups split into sub-categories, stun text added to anklyosaurus, and it now puts Celestial, Fiendish etc in the stat block after the creature's name.

[Papa-DRB]

Thank you !!!!

[Qu0zl]

Stat blocks now have a light yellow background when more than 1 of them is displayed, this makes it easier to see the separation between individual stat blocks.

They should still appear as white when printing so as not to waste ink.

I'm curious to know whether people think this is an improvement or not. I do but it is kind of ugly :) Ugly but effective.

[DM Papa.DRB]

Qu0zl wrote:

Stat blocks now have a light yellow background when more than 1 of them is displayed, this makes it easier to see the separation between individual stat blocks.

They should still appear as white when printing so as not to waste ink.

I'm curious to know whether people think this is an improvement or not. I do but it is kind of ugly :) Ugly but effective.

Yellow background is ok, but either way is fine with me.

-- david

[Qu0zl]

Summon Good 5 & 6 done.

I've added a new Group Category which contains lists of Summon Monster that include the Summon Good monsters for the relevant level.

Stat block displayed with Summon Good enabled will show 'SummonGood' in their types list if it is a creature that supports summon good, and will list the Diehard feat in their defenses. The point of that is to make it easy to see which creatures Summon Good applies to from a list of stat blocks.

[LeesusFreak]

This tool is amazing. I can't put into words how grateful I am for this. Seriously.

[Qu0zl]

Thanks LeesusFreak :-)

That reminds me - if anyone wants to say thanks for the tool then please just tell anyone else who you think might find it useful about it.

It's only worth the effort to make if people use it, and half of that is letting people know that it exists!

[Qu0zl]

Summon Good Monster 7 added. You can get the combined Summon Monster 7 + Summon Good 7 list here

I finally reached a level in the RoTR campaign that I'm playing where I needed Summon Good 7 :) I'll need Summon Good 8 next level so that should motivate me to add those too very soon.

[Devilkiller]

Thanks for all the effort!

[Qu0zl]

Summon Good 8 added. It is here

Summon Good is an amazingly fun feat - it gives you lots of interesting creatures with cool abilities and useful spells. Which are a pain to add to the site :)

[Qu0zl]

Summon Good 9 added, it is here So that's SM, SNA and SG 1 through 9.

There's a good chance that that's all that I'm going to add. That's 176 creatures and has taken a ridiculous amount of time :)

It's a fairly niche web-site, so I don't know how many people will really use it. If I notice it becoming more popular then I may add things like Summon Neutral, Rod of Giant Monsters, or the extra creatures from the Extra Summons feat.

Enjoy!

[Tacticslion]

Thanks for everything you did!

[BV210]

Brilliant! I'm glad I stumbled across this thread. Thanks!!

[Qu0zl]

I've played levels 1 to 15 so far in a Rise of the Runelord's campaign as a summoner, and it has been so much fun.

Last fight a creature was doing d10 stat damage a hit to our party's tank but I could summon a Monadic Deva (Summon Good 8) every turn and get it to use its 1/day heal. Curing all the stat damage along with 100 HP each turn.

A cleric would struggle to do that for 3 or 4 turns in a row :)

In a previous fight the boss buffed himself with 2 defensive spells in a single turn, so I summoned D3+1 Movanic Deva (SG7), got 3 of them and told them all to use their at-will dispel magic on him. Hello completely nerfed Necromancer boss :)

Summoner's are great fun.

[Castilonium]

Qu0zl, will you add monsters that are accessable through items? Ring of Natural Attunement (Kami), for example.

[Qu0zl]

I doubt it, Castilonium. There's a large amount of work gone into the project already and with family and work I don't have that much spare time.

If anyone wants to volunteer to do data entry for any of the creatures that I haven't yet added (the summoning rings, the new ones from summoning versatility, most of summon neutral monsters) then please PM me :)

Monsters take somewhere between 10 minutes to enter (for really straight-forward combat ones) and maybe 20 minutes for ones with lots of special abilities.

There might be the very rare remaining creature that will require code changes but I can make those. The site supports all the Summon Good monsters and those are a mass of special abilities, so it's got pretty good coverage for weird things by now.

[Letric]

Thanks for the awesome website!

Is the site being updated still?
Is there any way I can add monsters myself for personal use?

[Sony Usr]

Is it down? been checking in for the past few weeks and it just pops up a "404 not found error"

[sadie]

This appears to have gone away. Has something broken, or have you removed it?