I did a full implementation of the LG stat block format withing MonsterForge 2.0; alas, Rob moved on to a new format and I never ran across the time to update.

The implementation I did utilized a fully-formatted export to MS Word that fit’s Creighton Broadhurst’s specs almost to the letter. The export was necessary because, even if you can manipulate parts of text in excel cells via VBA to approximate the format, you cannot get out a format that matches this spec within excel, or copy/paste the exact result you want into a document, which was absolutely necessary for LG authors.

I started in on a HeroForge implementation to produce the same kind of stat blocks there, but dropped the ball. It’s close to an order of magnitude more work since heroforge doesn’t have the same level of support as MonsterForge for the intermediary data used to build up LG/MM IV - style stat blocks, and there are a lot more dependencies built into the tab set. Also, HeroForge has traditionally been a much faster moving target, and the kinds of changes required would have added a lot of work to the HeroForge implementation team for a pretty small gain for most people. Now that LG is gone, It’s even more difficult to justify the amount of work required; I no longer have the excuse of helping out the other poor LG authors out there laboring under the strain of an evil statblock overlord.

D. Adrian Abshere

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D. Adrian Abshere

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EEC Technology Group

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