Has anyone created anything for Hero Lab with the Authoring Kit for the Fantasy Flight Games RPG system? I'm not adverse to filling out PDFs and transferring them around, but I have really liked the Hero Lab setup and rules checking for other systems. Would love to see this for Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion and Force and Destiny.
Hero Lab (Lone Wolf Development)
I love HeroLab myself (I use it for Savage Worlds and Pathfinder)... however, based on my playing around with it, I gave up on that idea and started using OggDude's. After a while, I just figured I'd use what someone else already created.
Yeah... I can see that... *sigh*...
It is an avenue with my MacBook without resorting to setting up my PC again. I really enjoy being able to take a powerful device with me anywhere. Enough so that I'm willing to not have a program than to give up my MacBook Pro.
I run OggDude’s program on a virtual machine in Amazon Web Services, and I keep it shut down when I don’t need it.
I have found that’s better than trying to run a local VM on my MacBook Pro.
That's what AWS meant... I was trying to figure that out... figured it was something with a Linux flavor...
Not a bad option, but $25 a month is a decent commitment... will take it under advisement though...
I run OggDude’s program on a virtual machine in Amazon Web Services, and I keep it shut down when I don’t need it.
I have found that’s better than trying to run a local VM on my MacBook Pro.
I'd ask for an ami but windows... Well, at least until windows 10 which is free, no?
That's what AWS meant... I was trying to figure that out... figured it was something with a Linux flavor...
Not a bad option, but $25 a month is a decent commitment... will take it under advisement though...
With AWS, you pay pennies per minute. So, keep it up and running for the few minutes per week that you need it, and you don’t end up paying very much. Just make sure that you only Stop and don’t Terminate the instance, otherwise you’ll have to rebuild it. You might want to turn on “terminate protection” so that you can’t accidentally terminate the instance.
I'd ask for an ami but windows... Well, at least until windows 10 which is free, no?
They have freely available Windows Server 2012 AMIs which work just fine for doing desktop Windows things. The user interface is slightly weird, because they assume you will always want to run the server admin tool, but you can install and run all the desktop apps you want.
BTW, for anyone who is interested, here is my current cost dashboard for July 2015 (see
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79813707/SW-EotE/Errors%20and%20Warnings/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-15%20at%206.53.50%20PM.png
):
And here’s how most of that cost breaks down (see
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79813707/SW-EotE/Errors%20and%20Warnings/Screen%20Shot%202015-07-15%20at%206.58.25%20PM.png
):
As you can see, the cost is about 1/3 EC2 itself, about 1/3 EBS storage for the instance, and about 1/3 for the Elastic IP address that I keep assigned to the box so that I can always access it at the same location.
I could go with much smaller instances, which would run much slower, and be much less expensive. But they would probably do the job.
I could go with non-SSD storage, which would also be cheaper. But SSD is now the default, and I don’t know how much longer the non-SSD storage systems will be available. Once they’re gone, then what?
But the Elastic IP address costs wouldn’t be going down. So, if you want to pre-configure your RDP client to use your account with cryptographic key (AWS doesn’t use passwords for these things) and have it also pre-configured to use your specific IP address, then that cost is fixed.
If you can live with reconfiguring your RDP client every time you shut down the instance (so that it gets a different public IP address assigned to it), then you would probably be able to avoid this part of the cost.
My time and greatly reduced hassle is worth way more to me than $10-25 per month. So, at least at the moment, this solution meets my needs/wants.
One might be able to use one of those dynamic dns providers like no-ip or dyndns for a free hostname that can quickly and easily be updated. Unless of course you have another dns provider and can just drop a record with a tiny ttl in there - why, there's probably an api for that.
One might be able to use one of those dynamic dns providers like no-ip or dyndns for a free hostname that can quickly and easily be updated. Unless of course you have another dns provider and can just drop a record with a tiny ttl in there - why, there's probably an api for that.
If you wanted to host that at your home and have that server be accessible from the outside world, that would work. I know plenty of people who do that.
Amazon’s API for automatically updating the DNS for these kinds of things inside of AWS is called Route53.
But I’ve only got the one instance, it’s in AWS and not my home, and I’m not in the mood to kit-bash my own solution together using dynamic DNS type tools from a Windows box running in AWS that is only up and running for a few hours per month.
Of course, YMMV.
and I’m not in the mood to kit-bash my own solution
Yeah, just throwing that out there for the crowd.
It would be a boon to we few mac users if our pal over at http://swsheets.com/ were to start adding some similar features, but that's a pretty awesome tool by itself already.
It would be a boon to we few mac users if our pal over at http://swsheets.com/ were to start adding some similar features, but that's a pretty awesome tool by itself already.
Yeah, SParker is working on it, but it’s kind of slow going since he’s just one guy.
I look forward to seeing how it continues to evolve.