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Pathfinder RPG NPC Import Tool for Roll20

A tool to import Pathfinder NPC stats into the roll20 Pathfinder Community Sheet · By KroyTheGm

How To: A Tutorial

A topic by KroyTheGm created Apr 28, 2020 Views: 1,702 Replies: 9
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Developer (2 edits)

Instructions:

  1. Select the starting text, the line that has "Creature Name CR Level"
  2. Select all the way to right before ECOLOGY
  3. Copy the text and paste it into the left side of the tool
  4. Click on the "Parse Text" button to extract the data to the right side.
  5. Validate the data was imported correctly
  6. In Roll20 create a new game (if you don't already have the "Pathfinder Community" optional character sheet activated).
  7. Goto the Journal, "+Add" a new Character
  8. Click on Character Sheet Tab, select "IS NPC" and then the Settings Icon
  9. Clear out the pre-generated Name
  10. Switch back to the tool, select the "Paste stats" button (the tool will minimize) and re-select the "Name" field in roll20. You have 5 seconds.
  11. Wait 5 seconds, and the tool will paste in the data.
  12. Click on the parse button and validate the data was transferred correctly.
  13. Drag the Character over to the map to place the token.

If help is needed, please refer to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKUX-DREM4E

Optional Create "All" macro

  1. Click on the "Collections" menu option
  2. Under Macros click the "+ Add"
  3. Enter
    1. Name: "All"
    2. Actions: "%{selected|allmenus}"
  4. Select the checkbox for " Show macro quick bar?"
  5. Save the macro and drag it onto the menu bar if it is not already there.(below your portrait on bottom left).
  6. Click on the token and click the "All" macro to see the Whisper Chat of options.

Thanks for that tool! :)

However, all my games currently use the official Pathfinder sheets, not the community ones (which might have been a mistake, maybe). Switching seems like it would be a lot of work, both on me as a GM and on my players (some who are new-ish to RPGs, and we all are new-ish to roll20.

Due to the way your tool works I realize it's not directly compatible with the official sheet. Is adding that on your TODO list or is that something you're not planning to do?

...And I just saw that feature request post where this is a bullet point. Nevermind, sorry about that :P

Developer(+1)

Correct, i'll be looking into supporting "Pathfinder by Roll20" output during the beta.

Developer(+1)

Give the release version a try. I added support for the Official Roll20 sheets. However Melee, Range and Special Attacks, along with Spell Like/Spells need to be manually entered.

Oh, right, I forgot to give you feedback here. Works like a charm, thank you very much :)

Attacks would be nice to have, but I guess the way that sheet works, that would be difficult to implement.

In either case, it works fine for me on Linux here as well :)

Doesn't seem to work. Gives me an error about being unable to load the main class and crashes out.

Developer

In the directory where you downloaded it try
java -jar ./<version you downloaded>

Such as 

java -jar ./PfToRoll20-1.0.2.jar

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