TLoATDaE Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Greetings fellow Champions Players! I have a batch of old characters from my Hero Creator software days that I would dearly love to convert to Hero Designer file format for my most recent campaign. Does a system exist for that, and can I get some step-by-step instruction? My hope is that I won't have to enter each and every bit of data by hand back in for each character. That would be a terrible pain. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 I don't think it will ever happen. The file formats are totally different, and you also have edition problems. (Or was HC updated for 5th Ed?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLoATDaE Posted May 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 Thanks for the reply It looks to me like it's 5th edition compatible. There was a reference for an export file (HD.flt) that could possibly be used for that propose, but I can not for the life of me, find where to use such a filter for output. Thus, the thread. Anyone with some experience here? I am still hoping to avoid keying in everything the Hard way... Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted May 13, 2018 Report Share Posted May 13, 2018 You're going to need to key everything in the hard way -- you're talking about a program that is over 15 years out of date. While it was updated for 5th edition, it was never even close to being rules-compliant...so even if you were to work on some form of export/import process, you'd have more work in identifying and resolving conflicts/rules violations than you would just keying the character into HD from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLoATDaE Posted May 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2018 Although that is what I feared, at least now I have a definitive answer to my question... Thanks again, Simon, for the input! As I key in a few things, I might find a place to share some of the old treasures I managed to dig up. Things like: the Pro Wrestler Fighting Style, including the old rules for Style Disadvantage, etc. We'll have to see just how ambitious I feel after converting a few characters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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