Engineer Suite

[Varsuuk]

Hah - go figure. It was 4am and I was in bed on phone didn’t even notice I was in a 5e thread (got here via email “topic alert”

The problem interested me since seemed like a weird interplay. Now it’s not so weird. If you use knockoff pdf, all bets are off on what whoever did what did in making it.

I only have created stuff for SW and 2E and a personal in progress corerpg based system all of which have legal pdfs for.

[JayTee]

Ok that's weird one is a legit pdf for a core book. The other is a freely available pdf from GM binder. At least the ones I am testing anyway.

I'd be more inclined to think it's the other way. People protecting their material so it can't be bulk copied into another format. But if it's a freely available pdf it'd work. Unless they just did a poor job.

[Trenloe]

What @damned is saying is that there is no official/legal PDF of the D&D 5e Wizards of the Coast Monster Manual - i.e. this product: https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tab...monster-manual

None of the D&D 5e core books (PHB, DMG or MM) are legally available in PDF. The only legal electronic copies are Fantasy Grounds, D&D Beyond or roll20 - none of which are in PDF, the data is in each platform's propriety format. If you paid for a "legit" copy of a core book, then I'd guess you've been had - unless there's some place I'm not aware of, in which case please provide a link!

[JayTee]

What @damned is saying is that there is no official/legal PDF of the D&D 5e Wizards of the Coast Monster Manual - i.e. this product: https://dnd.wizards.com/products/tab...monster-manual

None of the D&D 5e core books (PHB, DMG or MM) are legally available in PDF. The only legal electronic copies are Fantasy Grounds, D&D Beyond or roll20 - none of which are in PDF, the data is in each platform's propriety format. If you paid for a "legit" copy of a core book, then I'd guess you've been had - unless there's some place I'm not aware of, in which case please provide a link!

The only thing I have to say are curse words . I didn't even know there weren't PDF's. I suspect I have indeed been had.
Thankfully is was only about $20.
I got it several years ago when I first started playing 5e after moving from Pathfinder and just assumed like Paizo PDF's where the norm.

Well that at least explains why the 'Official' PDF isn't working!

[Trenloe]

Well that at least explains why the 'Official' PDF isn't working!

Indeed it does! Well, at least maybe explains why the copy/paste isn't that reliable.

Sorry you were had. Happens to us all unfortunately. :/

[Maasq]

Hiya

The behaviour you describe in NPC Engineer is usually caused by non-standard language or punctuation in the source statblock.
A lot of the sections don't have obvious breakpoints and so I had to search for text patterns to grab data.

3rd party stuff made me grind my teeth sometimes.

I don't know if the Discord channel is still alive; if it is, some people on there were very good at spotting these issues.

I hope this helps!

Maasq

[damned]

Google pdf ligatures

Hey Maasq!

[Weepdrag]

It seems that this produces modules that are not recognized by FGU. I created a NPC mod in the program and the mod was created successfully (it's in the MODULES directory) but will not come up in the library of FGU to load. I tried opening the MOD in FGC and it works fine. I re-exported a module from the module in FGC. It was also not readable in FGU. Now the big question: Is there a way to EASILY export the data (NPC's) from this newly created MOD into FGU to recreate the MOD in FGU or possibly a parameter in the MOD files to make FGU happy with it?

[LordEntrails]

It seems that this produces modules that are not recognized by FGU. I created a NPC mod in the program and the mod was created successfully (it's in the MODULES directory) but will not come up in the library of FGU to load. I tried opening the MOD in FGC and it works fine. I re-exported a module from the module in FGC. It was also not readable in FGU. Now the big question: Is there a way to EASILY export the data (NPC's) from this newly created MOD into FGU to recreate the MOD in FGU or possibly a parameter in the MOD files to make FGU happy with it?

unzip and rezip the module. I believe ES uses a zip protocol FGU doesn't recognize.

[Weepdrag]

Thanks, I tried that first with no effect then I changed the "root version" from 3.3 to 4.0 in both XML files and it did the trick.