Hero Lab provides an easy-to-use, intuitive interface atop a versatile engine complete with all the core functionality players have clamored for. Create characters, experiment with all the choices available under the selected rules, and orchestrate your character's evolution. Additionally, Hero Lab automatically tracks changes and modifiers for every stat, ability, item, spell, and option.
Character Creation Software Has Finally Levelled Up!
For years, RPG players have settled for software tools that simply fall short of what they need. Hero Lab has finally arrived, providing an easy-to-use, intuitive interface atop a versatile engine complete with all the core functionality players have clamored for.
Create characters, experiment with all the choices available under the selected rules, and orchestrate your character's evolution. Hero Lab reduces bookkeeping to just a few clicks of the mouse. It automatically tracks changes and modifiers for every stat, ability, item, spell, and option. At the same time, the automated validation rules confirm that all prerequisites, minimums, and other rules requirements are valid. With the ability to support virtually any game system and genre, Hero Lab is a revolutionary addition to any RPG player's library.
Hero Lab is the most versatile and easy-to-use set of character creation and evolution tools to date. Using our proprietary technology, Hero Lab offers you unprecedented accuracy and flexibility to create RPG characters to your every specification, while at the same time verifying that your character is 100% valid under the rules of the game. Hero Lab allows you to map out your character's future, as it presents all the prerequisites necessary for your characters to realize their fullest potential. At the same time, Hero Lab is flexible enough to allow you to adjust your character over the course of time, so you are always free to more precisely define your characters' abilities and personalities as they evolve.
What Is Hero Lab?
Hero Lab is an integrated set of software tools for creating, adjusting, and storing character data for a multitude of roleplaying games. There are three key components to Hero Lab: the main program, data files, and the editing tools.
The Program
At its core, Hero Lab is an incredibly versatile engine, designed to accommodate just about anything that the RPG industry can come up with. It's flexible enough to adapt to nearly every genre of roleplaying on the market, and intricate enough to keep up with the most demanding of rules systems. Hero Lab presents a wealth of highly detailed information in a manner that is easy to navigate and intuitive to use. Through the use of adaptive summary panels, all the inter-dependencies of your character are readily visible. Mouse-sensitive help keeps all the details at your disposal without cluttering up the screen.
Hero Lab manages all the complex inter-connections of your character automatically and transparently. As you make changes to your character, Hero Lab automatically applies the appropriate bonuses, penalties, and modifiers. Similarly, selections that become invalid due to user-selections are immediately flagged by the validation engine.
Characters aren't just about numbers and choices, however. Every character has a story of how they came to be, and how they have evolved. With an innovative journaling mechanism, Hero Lab gives users the ability to track the key events in a character's life. And Hero Lab's unique In-Play mode allows players to easily manage their characters during the game, including the automatic application of temporary effects (e.g. ability score adjustments).
Data Files
Hero Lab accomplishes all of the above for virtually any game system. All of the facets of a given game system are encapsulated by a set of data files, spanning the core game mechanics to the validation rules, and even the visual organization of the display. As such, Hero Lab requires the download of a set of data files corresponding to each game system. When a user purchases Hero Lab, they gain access to one set of data files of their choice. Access to additional data files can be purchased for a nominal charge. Click on the "Games Supported" link below for information on which games Hero Lab currently supports.
Editing Tools
In addition to the product and data files, Lone Wolf Development provides tools that allow users to customize existing data files and create new data files. These editing tools make it possible for users to edit existing elements, add new elements, and make adjustments for house rules.
