Defenses

Skills

Acrobatics (4E)|DEX
Arcana (4E)|INT
Athletics (4E)|STR
Bluff (4E)|CHA
Diplomacy (4E)|CHA
Dungeoneering (4E)|WIS
Endurance (4E)|CON
Heal (4E)|WIS
History (4E)|INT
Insight (4E)|WIS
Intimidate (4E)|CHA
Nature (4E)|WIS
Perception (4E)|WIS
Religion (4E)|INT
Stealth (4E)|DEX
Streetwise (4E)|CHA
Thievery (4E)|DEX

Feats and Initiative

InitModifier|*initiative +1|1
InitModifier|*initiative +2|2
InitModifier|*initiative +3|3
InitModifier|*initiative +4|4
InitModifier|*initiative +5|5
InitModifier|*initiative +6|6
InitModifier|*initiative +7|7
InitModifier|*initiative +8|8
InitModifier|*initiative +9|9
InitModifier|*initiative +10|10

Powers

• At Will: Eldritch Blast, Eyebite
• Per Encounter: Witchfire
• Per Day: Curse of the Dark Dream

• Eldritch Blast: Simple at will power. Program the attack into the Attack tab on the creature character sheet. Make it a ranged attack that deals 1d10+? force damage (where ? is your charisma modifier). I might name it as: Eldritch Blast (vs. Ref) to make it easier to adjucate.
• Eyebite: Eyebite deals 1d4+cha psychic damage and makes you invisible to the target. For this, I would also make a basic attack in the attack tab, make it ranged, force, and name it Eyebite (vs. Will). The invisibility can easily be remembered mentally. We could just send a tell in the OOC channel to help us remember (see chat).
• Witchfire: Since this is an Encounter power, I might want to make a Special Ability for it. Double-click the warlock, click on the Abilites. Here is where you might be tempted to put the attack in. Don't, since you need to roll to hit with it (and these effects use Saves). Instead, input an effect that gives -4 to hit for 1 round and be done. Now put the attack in the Attack tab on the character sheet. Make it deal 2d6+x force damage, name it Witchfire (vs. Ref) and hit done. Now when you use your witchfire, use the attack to determine hit and damage, then the DM can burn through your ability and apply the effect to the target if you hit.
• Curse of the Dark Dream: same as witchfire, above. Program an attack into the character sheet, then make a Daily power in the abilities tab. The power doesn't really need an effect - but you might consider changing the target's team color just to make the unit border different (and easy to spot).

Healing Surges,Second Wind, andAction Points

• Healing surges: just set it as a Per Day ability with X / X charges (where X is how many healing surges you get. You could apply a healing effect to them, but you could just burn them and manually heal the PCs with the H key.
• Second Wind:a Per Init power that heals the appropriate amount and that grants +2 to AC and Saves (Fort, Ref, Will) for 1 round.
• Action Points: Use items! The DM can give an item to the PCs at any time, and can destroy them at will. The DM can even drop items onto the map and have the players pick them up if they are adjacent (P key). I use the following icon for action points:

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Adventures

The Ghost of Mistmoor:

Feats

Draw

Paint

Tile

Scale

• Fill: This causes your tile to fill the entire map. This is really only useful for maps, as basic tiles will become terribly pixelated.
• Show: This button brings the scaled tile to the front, above all other textures or tiles.
• Sink: This drops the scaled tile below other textures or tiles.
  

The Game Log

The Chat Panel

The Tools Panel

• Combat controls: Done (F9), Ready, Delay, Charge
• Basic dice: Click to roll a die with the shown number of sides.
• Game time
• Master controls:
  
• Free
• Combat
• Story
• Help (?)
  
• Options (*)
  

Menu Commands

• Attack - brings up the Attack Window, where you can choose from a range of pre-constructed attacks or attack sequences.
• Save
  • Fort -makes a fortitude save
  • Ref - makes a reflex save
  • Wil - makes a will save
    
• Skill - brings up a skill window, allowing you to choose a skill to use. Recently used skills are listed at the top of the list for your convenience
• Spell - brings up a spell window to facilitate casting
• Action
  • Combat
    • Grapple - rolls a grapple check. Grapple checks are calculated by BAB, Strength modifier, and size of a creature. Effects from feats or racial abilities are not currently implemented.
    • Melee Touch - rolls a touch attack, modified by Str
    • Ranged Touch - rolls a touch attack, modified by Dex
      
  • Move Silently - makes a move silently check for the creature
  • Hide - makes a hide check for the creature.
  • Pick Up Item - pulls up a dialog window allowing the creature to pick up any adjacent items. The creature may consume the item instead of adding it to its inventory.
    

• Damage * - damages a creature or group. This damage is not mitigated by any resistances or damage reduction.
• Heal * - heals a creature or group. A convenient button allows you to heal to maximum hit points, and a checkbox allows you to heal a creature over maximum hps. This is useful for spells or effects that grant temporary hit points, such as Aid or Vampiric Touch.

• Alter * - alter creature states
  • Effect - Apply an effect to a creature or group
  • Initiative
    • Enter Combat - place creature into initiative order
    • Leave Combat - remove creature from initiative order
    • Go Now - creature's initiative changed to current slot
      
  • Visibility
    • Visible - creature is always visible
    • Invisible - creature is invisible to all but its owner
    • Dynamic - creature's visibility is dependent on Fog of War
      
  • Size
    • Reduce - reduces creature's size by 1 category
    • Enlarge - increases creature's size by 1 category
      
  • Rest - creature regains all spells
  • Hold/Release - toggles a graphic overlay to denote a creature's immobility. This has no game effect, but is useful for marking creatures that are held, knocked unconcious, or otherwise helpless.
  • Team - assigns the creature to a team. This is useful for denoting party members, groups of enemies, and allies.
  • Owner - assigns an owner to the creature, chosen from current players that are logged on. Owners have more command available to them than others, but not as much as the DM. Players cannot see the hp or AC of creatures under the ownership of the DM.
    
• Clone * - creates an exact duplicate of the creature and places it in the next available square to the right.
• Edit * - opens the creature editing window

• Talk - opens a dialog window, where you can type messages and assign them to specific communication methods.
• Location
  • Elevation - change the elevation of a creature. This is denoted as an number placed over the creature's icon.
  • Move to Map - move a creature or group to another map. Groups maintain their relative positions.
  • Move to Limbo - moves creatures to Limbo, which is a holding bin for inactive creatures that you don't want on the map yet
  • Save to Library - saves a copy of the creature to the Creature Library

• Destroy - permanently destroys the creature. This does not affect any copies in the Creature Library

1. click on the “Creatures” button in lower right corner of screen
2. This will open a new window on the right hand portion of the screen
3. click on “create” in lower left of new window
4. this will create an “unknown” creature inside of the creature window
5. double click on creature, this opens up the “character sheet” for selected creature

1. Enter name chosen for the new creature
2. Enter module – optional - (you can classify creatures by campaign, mod, etc)
3. Team – click on arrow and choose neutral, party, ally, enemy, etc (note – this can be changed during play)
4. Choose size, space, and reach of creature
5. Enter in speed
6. Enter in Hit Dice
7. Choose type
8. Enter in hit points
9. Enter all saving throws
10. Armor class – Dex and Size are handled inside of the software, additional information needs to be entered manually. Reveal what each box tracks by mousing over the boxes in questions (i.e. – armor, shield, dex, size, natural, deflect, and enhancement).
11. Click on the “10” in the STR window
12. Continue to enter in the rest of the creature’s ability scores by “tabbing” through
13. Click on the drop down window of the classes – “Aberration” is default
14. Select the class of your choice and click the add button
15. If level adjustment is necessary, click inside of the level window and choose desired level
16. If the created creature has Damage Reduction, click on “none” next to the “DR” below the “AC” area and next to the “Classes” area.
17. Check the damage reduction box
18. Enter the damage reduction amount and additional data if necessary.

1. Click on the “Attacks” tab at the bottom of the character sheet
2. Click on the “create” button at the bottom of the attack screen
3. Double click on the “to hit” window to add any additional modifiers (**NOTE** only add magic bonuses, the software accounts for level of character and ability modifiers)
4. Double click on name window and type in the name of the attack
5. Double click on the damage window and enter in die type for each required field (**NOTE** only add magic bonuses, the software accounts for level of character and ability modifiers)
6. Choose type of damage attack is by clicking on “bashing” and choosing correct type
7. If an additional damage type is necessary, select the “create” button to the right
8. If an additional damage die is required, select the “create” button below
9. Double click on crit window and choose number and multiplier of critical hit
10. Double click on type window and choose attack type
11. Double click on +6/+1 window if necessary
12. Choose style (1 handed, 2 handed, or off-handed)
13. The “1,2,3,4 & 5” buttons can be double clicked to have more than one attack be rolled at the same time in game play. The multiple attacks will coincide with the selected color. (i.e. – A high level 2 weapon fighter may have 4 attacks per round. Once all of these attacks are entered, “red” can be chosen as the “Full Attack” button, saving time).

1. Click on the “Skills” tab at the bottom of the character sheet
2. Click on the “add” button
3. Hold “CTRL” and click on each skill to add
4. Once all the skills for this creature are selected, click inside the “rank” window in order to add ranks in each skill
5. If there are any miscellaneous modifiers to add click inside misc window and choose mods (inside this window negative numbers may be selected)
6. d20pro handles the ability mods

1. Click on the “Items” tab at the bottom of the character sheet
2. Click the “Add” button at the bottom of the item screen
3. Select the item in the new window
4. Click green “ok” button
5. To Drop or Destroy and item, select the item, then click the appropriate tab

1. select the “edit” button
2. choose the spells known tab
3. double click on each spell known
4. once completed spells known, select the spells memorized tab
5. click on each line and select the spell to be memorized for usage
6. click green check when done
7. this will take you back to character sheet
8. click the “rest” button to see spells and be able to use spells

Custom Feats

• Prefixes & Suffixes: If you open the feats file, you will notice that most feats have the Generic| prefix before them. For any feats that do not modify initiative, it's recommended that you keep that prefix. Feats that affect Initiative have the InitModifier| prefix followed by a |# suffix where the # is a numerical modifier.
• Example: If you were to add the Thug feat from the Player's Guide to Forgotten Realms (which grants a +2 to intimidate & initiative), you would enter it as InitModifier|Thug|2 The only feats that currently have automated processes associated with them are those that affect Initiative
• List Order: Feats display in d20pro in the order listed, so if you don't add to the list in an alphabetical fashion, your feat list will be unorganized in the program. You can use this to your advantage, though. See examples.
• Naming Tips: These are just some of the naming conventions I use. Your mileage may vary.
  
• I use a minus before the names of any feats that are 1st level or regional feats, so they don't get confused with general feats. Such as: Generic|-Arcane Schooling
• I use an asterisk after any feat that is not core, just so I know that it's from another source. Example: Generic|Combat Tactician*
• You could also change the existing feats to reflect their role a bit more, such as adding Metamagic before appropriate feats. Example: Generic|Metamagic - Empower Spell

• For the most part, you can look at the current classes to gain an understanding of syntax. Classes start with a capitalized entry of ## CLASS: <name>. That's to make them easier to find.
  
• Next we have CreatureClass=<name> The name listed here is what displays in the class list within the program. Creative naming conventions can control how your classes appear, such as using NPC_Adept and PRC_Blackguard to keep NPC an prestige classes grouped in the list.
• Next is AttackRate=<#> where the number indicated the rate of progression in Base Attack Bonus. There are only 3 rates in D&D 3.5. Note that you are not technically limited to the rates below, as d20pro accepts any numerical rate.
  
• Poor: used by wizards, sorcerers, and commoners. This advances at a 1/2 rate, or .5
  
• Moderate: used by clerics, rogues, monks, etc. This advances at 3/4 rate, or .75
• Good: used by fighters, paladins, barbarians, etc. This advances at 1/1 rate, or 1

• Right now, d20pro does not have support for base save progression, so the GoodSaves=<type> doesn't have a real function. Saving throws in D&D advance in two tiers - good and poor. Close attention to save progression for any class in the rulebooks reveals that it has only two possible values for saves. Clerics for example have good Fort and Will saves, and poor Reflex saves. This line denotes those saves that advance at a good rate. It's advised that you fill this out, in case future support is enabled.

• Spellcaster= ............ This instructs d20pro to use a specific spellcaster template and ability modifier. To make this easier, copy & paste a caster type that matches your class.
• Example: If I wanted to enter information for the Duskblade class, I might look at the sorcerer, since both are spontaneous casters. However, I would modify the last part (the ability modifier) to be INT since duskblades use that ability modifier for bonus spells. My final entry would be:

• #SPELLS AVAILABLE and Spells<#>=<name> : This section starts the spell list. Each spell level is listed on a separate line and starts with Spells# where # is the spell level, then = then the spell names separated by pipe characters | (shift+backslash).
  
• IMPORTANT!! Spell names MUST match exactly with the names in the spells.txt file. So Blade of Blood will not appear if you have the spell listed as Blade of Blood* (with asterisk) in the spells.txt file. Also, keep in mind that spells from core books are listed with their SRD names, so if you add a class with Melf's Acid Arrow, you should rename it to Acid Arrow, since that's the name in the spells.txt file.
• This can be a tedious process, but once completed, it's done for good. If you are feeling helpful, please post your content here!
  
• #SPELLS PER DAY and PerDay<#>=<#>: This section starts the spells per day table. Simply follow the conventions for other classes. Separate numbers with the pipe character |
  
• For spontaneous classes, don't forget to add the third section, #SPELLS KNOWN. This controls how many spells the character knows at the appropriate level.
  

Custom Skills

Step 1: Get the Map

Finding Free Maps

• WOTC, for example, has Art & Map galleries for many of their publications, like Expedition to Castle Ravenloft.
  
• Paizo also includes downloadable maps for some of their Dungeon Magazine adventures.
• Prester’s Maps and Chart Emporium is a site dedicated to sharing the work of Dungeon Crawl Classics fans. On this page you’ll find beautifully rendered battlemaps for use while playing DCC adventures. Most are created using the map-making software Dundjinni (see below).

• Dundjinni's website hosts a forum where users of this incredible map-making program post their art and maps. By default any art or maps posted on Dundjinni's map forum are available for others to use, unless specified by the author. The maps on this forum are in a word: Amazing.
• WOTC has a Map-a-Week page with some good generic maps.
  
• Sometimes you might stumble upon amateurs or professionals who have made thier maps available to the public. One example is the Educated Gamer, where you can find maps of the original T1-4 modules, and other maps.
• If you own a module, you might want to scan the maps for personal use. Just remember to scan them using a fairly high resolution so that you will have good quality maps. This method is likely to involve a bit more post-work.

Creating Your Own Maps

• Hands down, one of the most powerful and user-friendly software titles out there for making maps is Dundjinni. For a reasonable price, you get access to a software that allows you to paint a map with floor textures, draw walls, and stamp objects - all quickly and effectively. You can buy art packs for more creative power, or mine the thousands of unbelievable posts on their forum of user art. Most of the art on the forums (textures, maps, objects) is available for download and immediate use in your map projects. You really need to see the maps created with it to believe it.
  
• Another good software is Campaign Cartographer 3. It has a steep learning curve (especially since it uses more of a CAD approach) but produces very nice maps.
• You could also use graphic programs like Photoshop, GIMPshop (free), or various paint programs like ArtRage (free) or Painter.

Importing Map Graphics into d20pro's Library

• Using your operating system's file browser (not d20pro), copy your map graphic file. This should be a common graphic file format, like bmp, gif, png, or jpg. Ideally, this should be a JPG file.
• Navigate to your d20pro folder. In Windows, this is usually c:\d20pro. From there, proceed to the \dm\res\FLR folder.
  
• Paste your map graphic into this folder, or a subfolder of this one.
  
• You may want to create many subfolders under d20pro\dm\res\FLR in order to keep your maps organized and running smoothly.
• Start up d20Pro and click on the Scale button. Browse to the location of the graphic file.
• Note: If you are already in the program, click on the Options button, then the Judge button in the Options pane. Finally, click on Update Resources. Then click Scale and navigate to the proper folder.

Create a Blank Map

• Click on Map, then New
• Insert the dimensions of the new map in 5ft square increments. Thus a 40x80 ft map would be an 8x16 square grid.
• If your graphic has gridlines already, just cound the number of 5ft squares.
• If does not have gridlines, determine a size or dimension by estimating or looking at the resolution of the file. Hovering your mouse pointer over an image file in Windows will revewal the image dimensions. You are free to choose the overall scale. So if your image is 1024 x 768, you might round it to 10x7 or 10x8 or maybe 20x15.
• Enter other information such as the name or module and create the map.
• Find the newly created (and empty) map in your Map library, then click on the < arrow button to the left of the map name. It will open in your Map Region. Now you have a map with proper proportions open and ready for a graphic.

Insert the Graphic into the Map

• Click on the Scale button and browse to your map.
• Select your map and click on the FILL button.
• The map will stretch to fill the dimensions of the d20pro map area.
• Note that you can manually type in dimensions if you do not want the graphic to fill the entire map area.

Combat Commands

Interface Commands *

• The Map Region
• The Tools Region
• Right-Click Creature Menu
• Keyboard Shortcuts

The Map Panel

• Select Creatures: You can select creatures simply by clicking on them. You can select multiple creatures by clicking and dragging a box around creatures. You may also CTRL+click individual creatures for more group precision.
• Move Creatures: Simply click & drag a creature you control to move it. To move a group, click & drag the one of the selected creatures while holding the SHIFT key.
• Pan Map: You can move maps around by right clicking on a map and dragging your mouse while you hold the right mouse button.
  
• Zoom in or out: You can click on the zoom buttons (top right of map), use ALT and +/- keys, or roll the wheel on your mouse.
• Close Map (DM): Open maps will be displayed by tabs at the top of the map pane. Close them by clicking on the x on the tab. You will be asked to save a copy, overwrite, or discard changes.
• Limbo (DM): Limbo is a holding bin for creatures that you wish to keep off the map, but still in play. It's different than the library in that you can keep many instances of the same creature type, and Limbo retains current effects and attributes of the creatures. To send a creature to Limbo, right-click on it and choose Location then Move to Limbo. Drag and drop the creatures from Limbo to place them onto the map.
• Broadcast (DM): This button allows the DM to broadcast the map, refreshing the views of all logged in Players. You may also Broadcast by pressing the F5 key.
  

The Initiative Panel

Portrait Functions

• Hovering your mouse pointer over a portrait gives you essential combat information, like hp, AC, and ongoing effects (listed at the end of the tooltip). The presence of a yellow exclamation point denotes 1 or more effects.
  
• Right-clicking on a portrait pulls up the same Creature Menu as when you right-click on the creature on the map.
• Double-clicking on a portrait pulls up a larger version to the right of the map. This section also includes any descriptions entered for the creature.
  

Library & Tools Panel

1. Click on the “maps” button to open the maps library and select the first map. Do this by clicking on the arrow of the desired map. The map will open in the gaming window.
2. Click on the “creatures” button to open the creature library and begin choosing which creature you will be using. Select the first creature and drag that creature to the desired location on the map. If you will be using the same creature multiple times, you can simply copy that creature several times from the map. It is not necessary to drag the same creature from the library again. If there will be different creatures on the map, continue selecting the desired creatures until finished.
3. All creatures enter the map as shown, if the creature needs to be hidden, you must right-click on the creature, select alter, then select hide.
4. Also, all maps, by default, start out as completely shown. You must select the “fog of war” button and hide the desired area of the map.
5. Place any items on the map necessary and choose if they are to be hidden as well.
6. Place the party on the map in the same manner as the creatures were placed.
7. Right click on one of the party members, choose extended, owner, and assign the corresponding creature to the proper player. If all or some of the players are using the same computer, you can “CTRL” click to multi-select all of the desired creatures. Follow the directions above to assign the proper creatures to the proper players.

1. A new window will open and allow the DM to alter any initiative rolls, if necessary, if not, select the green arrow and begin.
2. The creature at the top left of the creature window and highlighted on the map with arrows around it, goes first.
3. The DM / Player in control of the active creature is up…
4. To move, left-click on the icon for that creature on the map and drag it to the desired location.
5. To attack, right-click on the creature, select attack, choose the desired attack, and left-click on the creature to be attack. ***NOTE*** If there is more than one attack, make sure to click for each attack.
6. Once the creature who is up in initiative is done, select the “done” button or hit F9
7. The next creature up in initiative will move up to the top of the creature window
8. Repeat steps 3-7 as necessary.
9. Once combat is completed or initiative round is over, choose the “Free” button or hit F10.
10. The PC’s and NPC’s can move freely now.

1. First, you can use their portrait in the Initiative pane - just click on the up or down arrow that appears in the top-left corner when you hover over creature portraits.
2. The second method is by using the right-click menu. This method is advantageous when you are trying to move multiple creatures into initiative. Just select the group, right-click on one of the members, and choose Alter >> Initiative >> Enter Initiative.
3. Last, and probably easiest, is to use the keyboard shortcut, i (to enter initiative) and ALT+ i (to leave initiative). This works with single or group selections.

1. You can use basic tools in d20pro to create your maps. These let you create simple walls and doors, and let you paint textures with tiles.
2. Use Existing Maps from another source, such as online images, scanned images, or map-making programs such as Dundjinni.

1. Right-click on creature that will be casting
2. Select "Spell" in pop-up window
3. Use the arrows to move up or down to the desired level of spell to be cast
4. Select the spell
5. This will open a new window and give the following options:
   

• Create Effect - click in the small box if the spell will cause an effect that will last longer than 1 round

• Select Target - click in the small box if the spell targets 1 or more creatures. Choose the desired target.

• Roll Dice - click in the small box and choose the appropriate dice to be rolled if there will be damage or healing assessed at the end of the spell.

***NOTE*** - If the spell has an effect, once the green arrow is clicked a new window will open:

• Duration - select the duration of the spell.
  
• Save DC - select the save DC for the spell (***NOTE*** - at this time the saves will have to be rolled manually). The save can be rolled by right-clicking on the targeted creatures icon on the map and choosing save, then choose the appropriate save for the spell.

• choose edit
• double click on the desired spells from the "Spells Possible" menu
• the spells chosen will be entered into the character's spell book / list
• click on the green arrow when spell selection is completed
• click on the "rest" button
• the Bard is now ready to cast spells
• Note - d20Pro will keep track of the amount of spells cast vs. the amount of spells allowed to be cast per character's class and level

• choose edit
• Clerics will have a drop down menu for each possible spell choice
• click on the desired spell for each available slot in the "Spells Memorized" tab
• select the domain tab and choose the desired domain(s)
• the spells chosen will be entered into the character's spell book / list
• click on the green arrow when spell selection is completed
• click on the "rest" button
• the Cleric is now ready to cast spells
• Note - d20Pro will keep track of the amount of spells cast vs. the amount of spells allowed to be cast per character's class and level

• choose edit
• Druids will have a drop down menu for each possible spell choice
• click on the desired spell for each available slot
• the spells chosen will be entered into the character's spell book / list
• click on the green arrow when spell selection is completed
• click on the "rest" button
• the Druid is now ready to cast spells
• Note - d20Pro will keep track of the amount of spells cast vs. the amount of spells allowed to be cast per character's class and level

NOTE - the Paladin does not cast spells until 6th Level.

• choose edit
• Paladins will have a drop down menu for each possible spell choice
• click on the desired spell for each available slot
• the spells chosen will be entered into the character's spell book / list
• click on the green arrow when spell selection is completed
• click on the "rest" button
• the Paladin is now ready to cast spells
• Note - d20Pro will keep track of the amount of spells cast vs. the amount of spells allowed to be cast per character's class and level

NOTE - the Ranger does not cast spells until 4th Level.

• choose edit
• Rangers will have a drop down menu for each possible spell choice
• click on the desired spell for each available slot
• the spells chosen will be entered into the character's spell book / list
• click on the green arrow when spell selection is completed
• click on the "rest" button
• the Ranger is now ready to cast spells
• Note - d20Pro will keep track of the amount of spells cast vs. the amount of spells allowed to be cast per character's class and level

• choose edit
• double click on the desired spells from the "Spells Possible" menu
• the spells chosen will be entered into the character's spell book / list
• click on the green arrow when spell selection is completed
• click on the "rest" button
• the Sorcerer is now ready to cast spells
• Note - d20Pro will keep track of the amount of spells cast vs. the amount of spells allowed to be cast per character's class and level

• choose edit
• double click on the desired spells from the "Spells Possible" menu
• the spells chosen will be entered into the character's spell book / list
• click on the green arrow when spell selection is completed
• click on the "rest" button
• the Wizard is now ready to cast spells
• Note - d20Pro will keep track of the amount of spells cast vs. the amount of spells allowed to be cast per character's class and level