Its been a while since last I was on here, but I wanted to see if the Rolemaster Combat Minion program ever was able to have a fully populated NPC/Creature List for download, out of the Creatures and Monsters book. Additionally, I was curious if anyone had endeavored to put together a MERP creature compendium for use with the program by chance.
To date, I have a few hundred entries in the program added, directly from the Creatures and Monsters book, but it takes an enormous time to add each "stock" creature manually.
Any feedback and responses would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Mijimoe
I agree. I do what you do - look up a creature/monster in C&T and type it into the form. It would be much better to be able to choose a creature/monster from a select box and have the form populate automatically. This would require some software changes (of course), but most of all someone would need to enter the creatures/monsters into Minion once, then use the Backup function to save the resulting creature/monster file. I could then incorporate it into Minion.
For the technically minded, here's an example of what a Goblin might look like after the Minion Backup function saves it to a text file:
[1,"Goblin","G1",0,2,5,8,10,20,0,0,40,34,0,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"3 flasks oil, 2 torches, 8sp",45,"AL-2.3",0,"",0,"",0,"",0,"",0,""]
So all I need is one of these for each creature, and hypothetically it can be done.
Also note that without any software changes at all, the above goblin snippet can be inserted into your own database by using the Backup/Restore function. First backup your own minion database into a file. Edit it to add the above goblin snippet to the end of the creature list (changing the initial '1' number to one plus the number of your final creature) and Restore it into your Minion. ALWAYS keep an original of your backup in case you typo/syntax error.
Cheers