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MrJester · 06-05-2011, 08:14 AM

Being a very lazy GM, and also believing that laziness is why we've invented things like spreadsheets, I added two tabs to the GameBalance spreadsheet. The purpose was to keep me from having to manually go through the charts and what not when designing challenges for the group. Instead, excel does that for me (and now you if you like the sheet).

All you have to do is enter values for anything in green and the monster's values, (in red) will automatically update. Uses values from the sheets that Nymdok was kind enough to create.

Posted here on google docs:

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5s...thkey=CLO1nP8G

There are some limitations to the sheet... I've been working on and off to improve but seem to have hit a road block in my excel expertise. Reference comments on laziness. If you're industrious enough to improve upon mine (and by extension, Nymdok's) efforts, please share.

06-05-2011, 08:14 AM	#16
MrJester Join Date: Jun 2011	Re: [GM] At last! A combat Matrix is Born(sort of) Being a very lazy GM, and also believing that laziness is why we've invented things like spreadsheets, I added two tabs to the GameBalance spreadsheet. The purpose was to keep me from having to manually go through the charts and what not when designing challenges for the group. Instead, excel does that for me (and now you if you like the sheet). All you have to do is enter values for anything in green and the monster's values, (in red) will automatically update. Uses values from the sheets that Nymdok was kind enough to create. Posted here on google docs: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5s...thkey=CLO1nP8G There are some limitations to the sheet... I've been working on and off to improve but seem to have hit a road block in my excel expertise. Reference comments on laziness. If you're industrious enough to improve upon mine (and by extension, Nymdok's) efforts, please share.