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Posted by: Starmage21 Jan 18 2009, 05:36 PM

has anyone played with the authoring kit for Hero Lab 3 to get an SR4 data set together?

Posted by: cryptoknight Jan 19 2009, 04:37 PM

I haven't.. but they advertised the Shadowrun Logo at their booth at Gencon.

When I asked, they talked about contracts and whatnot...

If there was an SR dataset, I'd buy Hero Lab... until then... it's not worth it to me.

Posted by: Colen Jan 29 2009, 06:07 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm one of the developers for Hero Lab. Shadowrun was one of the very first game systems to give us a go-ahead for Hero Lab support years ago; unfortunately, things keep getting in the way of us actually signing the contract (Wizkids getting bought by Topps; layoffs at Wizkids; Wizkids closing down).

We very much want to get Shadowrun support included in Hero Lab, we just need to get the paperwork signed. Hopefully that will be soon...

Posted by: Caine Hazen Jan 29 2009, 07:17 PM

Awesome, thanks for the offical answer!

Posted by: WhiteWolf Sep 10 2009, 05:41 PM

QUOTE (Colen @ Jan 29 2009, 01:07 PM)

Hi everyone,

I'm one of the developers for Hero Lab. Shadowrun was one of the very first game systems to give us a go-ahead for Hero Lab support years ago; unfortunately, things keep getting in the way of us actually signing the contract (Wizkids getting bought by Topps; layoffs at Wizkids; Wizkids closing down).

We very much want to get Shadowrun support included in Hero Lab, we just need to get the paperwork signed. Hopefully that will be soon...

Posted by: nylanfs Sep 11 2009, 12:14 AM

I attended one of the authoring kit seminar's at GenCon and was pretty damn impressed with what they had. Using the authoring kit you can "essentially" re-write the entire program, GUI and all. But since it's a small company (I believe there are what two-three developer's on board full time, right Colen?) I imagine writing the entire data and game rules from scratch take a chunk of time since the majority of their experience is with d20 based systems.

I know it's taken me two years to get anywhere as close as I am with my gamemode and dataset for PCGen, and I'm the only one working on it, and I don't even get involved with the code, just data.