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The DMs Helper

OneNote DM tools for Dungeons and Dragons 5e · By eerongal

Utilizing the Resource

A topic by Dez626 created Apr 25, 2020 Views: 475 Replies: 8
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Now that I have the monster data and  the plug-in, how do I use it to run encounters?

Developer

There's an initative tracker built in to it. You can create encounters before hand, or load monsters ad-hoc, and load players on to it. It automatically rolls initiative, but you can edit all the values on the tracker. Its basically just a simple init tracker, its not like a full VTT or anything.

If you have pages with the same name as the monsters, it will scrape links from your oneNote pages and link them up in the init tracker, and you can use the "navigate" button to open that monster's page.

Might I just say that this tool seems awesome. I do have one problem though, the navigate onenote button in the initiave tracker is greyed out. What settings are needed to enable it?

Developer

You need to have pages in your oneNote file with the same name as the monster (the title of the page needs to match). When you import the CSV file, it will look through your oneNote entries and match up whatever it can. Anything that it matches will have the "url" field filled out, and will enable that button on the init tracker when it is selected.

If you find something in your notebook that it didnt link up to (say because the page title is slightly different from what was imported) you can manually add the URL in the monster DB. To get the link, right click on the page you want to link and pick "copy link to page". That will put TWO URLs in your clipboard to paste. You want the second one that begins with "onenote:" and you can just paste it in on the entry in the monster DB field.

Awesome, Thank you. Is there a place where a csv for all you have imported/created is stored?

Developer

The CSV files can be pulled from Kobold Fight Club, but that will just populate this tool. The oneNote pages need to be filled out either by you, or by however other means you can to fill out your notebook. Note that if you have PDF products (like stuff from Dms guild, or many other 3rd party supplements) you can import them in to your onenote by "inserting" the document as a print out. I recommend you configure your oneNote options to insert every page as a new page. Then you can go through the pages and simply rename each page to whatever monster is on that page.

There is also a oneNote notebook someone from reddit had filled out a few years ago that contains all of the basic rules information. I don't have a link to it off hand, but if you search on r/dnd you might be able to find it.

I meant for the table where the stats for each monster is stored. I can't seem to find url box in the monster db table that lets me edit fields.I see it in the encounter builder but it won't let me edit the monsters on that screen


 

Developer

Oh! Shoot, you're right! looks like the field got removed at some point accidentally. I'll push out an updated version with the field in tow.

Developer

I just pushed an updated install file for V1.1.3 which includes the field on monsterDB now.