mutants and masterminds character creator

If you're a completist that 'needs' every book out there, yeah, it can get expensive if you need it the day it becomes available.Īt the $80 entry point for the OP, you're probably looking at $30 for the Core, $10 for APG, $10 Ultimate Combat, $10 Ultimate Magic, $10 Advanced Class Guide, $10 Ultimate Equipment or some variation to get Campaign Setting books or Companion books which are $5 for ~3 books a package as a player. If you don't use anything from Obscure Splatbook, don't worry about buying it. From there you just purchase books or packages as needed. $30 to start out for Core book and ALL PLAYER MATERIAL FROM ALL ADVENTURE PATHS (that's the part everyone forgets to mention.). The cost to get into Hero Lab is managable.

They have the (majority of a) book ready to go on release day. Hero Lab being licensed by Paizo is now my go-to software. If I did partial stat outs and guesstimated at anything that came up unexpectedly I would not use it either. I still do it by hand out of habit, but for higher level encounters I often go to herolab, especially when I am short on time. If I were only playing, I doubt I would have ever gotten past the CRB, but as a GM it helps a lot. And since I'm usually trying to manage things for my whole group (as GM), this is a HUGE time-saver. I can't speak for the OP, but for me, the advantage of using a character generator (or character manager, as it were) such as PCGen is that it gives me an itemized list of things to do, so I don't forget about adding a favored class bonus, what level I get new feats/abilities, etc, and it scales things as I go along. My question is why do you want a character generator? If the main draw is being able to have all the resources at your immediate disposal and convenience (which would be the draw for me and was why I was in love with 4E character generator program before Wizards ruined it), you can get the same effect with sites like d20pfsrd. Chaoseffect wrote: The cost of Herolab is ridiculous and I probably wouldn't buy it even if I wasn't poor.

Mutants and masterminds character creator