STEVE - Writer's Guidelines and Hero Designer

[RPMiller]

This is a copy from the Company Questions Forum. I wanted to make sure that you got this. I wasn't sure which Forum to use.

I am currently working on a project converting about 140 characters, vehicles, bases, computers, etc. from 4th to 5th.

I'm using Hero Designer to do the work. Unfortunately, HD doesn't Export exactly per the WG. I've been working with Dan to create Export tags and the like to get it closer to the WG. What I'm wondering is how much leniency are you giving to the creation of characters and such using HD?

These characters I'm building will be for submission in publications. So I'm very concerned about it. I have all the characters entered in HD and converted to 5th. Now it has all come to exporting them. The publisher has several books already published, but they are revising everything for 5th ed. I would elaborate more, but I can't as you probably understand...

Thanks!

[Steve Long]

If you're submitting something for publication, it needs to follow the WG to the letter. Ideally HD would do all of that, but I'm sure it misses a thing or two; we'll get all that worked out eventually. In the meantime, after you export to a word processor, you'll just have to review stuff by hand -- after all, the characters would have to be submitted in word processing format in addition to HD anyway so we can lay 'em out and suchlike.