Barbara A. Stone

If only so y'all can say "I told you so", I will add that I bought HD and now wonder whyinhell I never did before. Still trying to figure out how to make it bigger on my screen, but damn it is a nice piece of software for making characters. Sigh. I have yet to try out combat records. The new campaign (Dinosaurs! Atlantis! Woohoo!) is still in the works. If I lived closer to my players it probably would have started by now. It is probably better for the game that I really design out the world.

@bluesguy and @Simon, you have convinced me to buy the HD (I had already bought combat manager before discovering that it is not a stand alone product, oops). It's really great to be able to chat with the developers. I appreciate your time and patience. It's a new program and I want to play with it, even if I probably won't rely on it. (also there's that whole we play mostly 4 with occasional bits of 5 issue). I never learned to program. I don't really miss/need it except at moments like this. My BF IS a software engineer and we spent some time going over what I was hoping to find out there in the 'interwebs'. He apparently used to have an app (was there a Hero combat app for iOS years ago?) that would spit out a list out who goes when if you put in speeds and dexterities. He apparently could easily make a macro to do that. What I wanted was a table to enter names, speeds and dexterities and a speed chart graphic with names in the correct phases/dexterities. See the attached. I found a download that had the chart with the red and blue colored names and took it and ran. With ten minutes to cut and paste it's easy to use. I am becoming super lazy and want it to be two minutes. BF is now thinking of writing a macro to do what I wanted. BF is awesome. Speed chart.xlsx

Thanks, I did figure that it supported version 5 and up. I have looked over the documentation. Thanks for the info.

I understand that the export formats are for HD. Rules-compliant...that could be important for many gamers. I suspect there is significant rules creep in my game group, especially since we generally are still playing version 4 with excursions to 5 with GM approval only. (Note the shiny new icon, which is only *partly* because the new campaign I'm starting features dinosaurs) I actually have looked at what is on the store site. I wish there were more screenshots to show the interface in use.

Okay, I'll bite. Where are all these 'myriad export formats' to be found? (Edit: thank you @bluesguy for the reference) To old fogies like me, basic markup IS programming. I've been gaming since the seventies, and the most advanced computer thing I do with it is make Excel spreadsheets for my PCs and NPCs. @bluesguyI could buy HD. No big deal except that my players all use Excel or a simpler product of Hero's to make their characters. Been playing Champions/Hero since the eighties, love the system, have used it to make or play in fantasy, superhero, space, steampunk, spy, cyberpunk games. Not to be the jerk that comes on a forum and questions the use of a product... But seriously, nicely, why HD?

Looking at the documentation for HD, I gather that some programming skill is required for its use. Or at least if one wishes to design custom exports. I can't imagine a time savings in punching in my players' characters and then designing a combat record and speed chart. This all started as a desire to have a shiny little spreadsheet or app that would idiot proof a speed chart for a combat. Sighhhhh.

I'm not quite sure I understand your answer. I am looking for a GMing tool that will take a list of names, speed and dex stats and spit out a speed chart to run a combat. It's not difficult to do manually, just tedious. I would have figured that somebody out there has written a program for that. I'm not a programmer myself. I will peruse the downloads section.

I am a long time Champions player and GM. I am looking for a software tool that will make setting up speed charts for combats easier. I don't really need anything else, but would be willing to spend a few bucks on software that would do more, as long as it has a speed chart set up.