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Introducing the 4e Power Toolkit: Create your own classes, races, powers and power cards

Forget Word. Forget Excel. Forget the mash of programs you’ve been using to roll your own powers and classes. Now you have a tool that does it all.

First, there’s the Power Creator. This lets you make powers just like the 4e Power Creator before it. Except this has support for Secondary and Tertiary attacks as well as Sustain and more. You can even add your own power sources and keywords using text files.

With a few powers created, you can load them into the Class Creator. Play around with primary stats, proficiencies and other details, and then export it all as a pretty document, presented much like the PHB. HTML is the only option right now, but PDF and text formats are not far away.

Finally, there’s the Power Card Creator. Export your powers as power cards using the template you want. Templates are made in HTML, so they can include images, CSS… whatever you want. There are two included with the program – one optimised for HTML and the other PDF. And yes, you can export the cards to PDF and it’ll format them all nice-like.

So, where can you find these awesome tools? Why, they’re all included in the one program – the 4e Power Toolkit!

It’s beta, so if it crashes or something doesn’t work, don’t get angry. Actually, if the program does chuck a hissy fit, please post about it on the 4e Power Toolkit forum so I can fix it.

The program features an auto-update function, so you’ll always know when a new version is available. For now, get the latest build from the link below. You’ll need Windows XP or Vista and the .NET 2.0 Framework. I apologise for not having a Linux or Mac version – it’s beyond my abilities to even entertain the idea of supporting other platforms.

If you like the toolkit, be sure to have a play with the other 4e apps I’ve put together:
CrawlNotes: A dungeon-planning tool for all occasions
TrackWork: The no-frills initiative tracker

Download the 4e Power Toolkit

~ by Logan on February 11, 2009.

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24 Responses to “Introducing the 4e Power Toolkit: Create your own classes, races, powers and power cards”

  1. [...] The 4e Power Toolkit is now available! Create custom classes, power cards and [...]

    Playwrite: 4th Edition Power Creator said this on February 11th, 2009 at 6:05 am

  2. Looks awesome! I’ll be giving it a try!

    JackOfHearts said this on February 11th, 2009 at 7:11 am

  3. Fantastic! I’ve been loving your power creator and am thankful for you for this next step. I’ll be downloading it when I get home tonight!

    Wimwick said this on February 11th, 2009 at 10:10 am

  4. [...] The 4e Power Toolkit is now available! Grab it from [...]

    Playwrite: Why the 4e Class Creator will rule said this on February 11th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

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    Update #9 - Games Edition - 460k PS3s, Capcom goes THQ, R18+ rants, and Logan’s Power Tools — Midnight Update said this on February 12th, 2009 at 7:11 am

  6. oh hellooooo. I’ll be taking a peek at this very soon. Expect vids!

    gamefiend said this on February 12th, 2009 at 8:20 am

  7. Yay! It’s here! I will stress test this baby like no tomorrow!

    Brian said this on February 12th, 2009 at 9:01 am

  8. One thing on exporting a class to html. The file includes empty groups for every level. Is there any way to have it detect when there are, for example, no Daily level two powers and not print that header on the html file?

    JackOfHearts said this on February 12th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

  9. On the Power Creator, it would be nice to have a “melee or ranged” option for type of attack.

    JackOfHearts said this on February 12th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

  10. @JackOfHearts: Both good changes. I’ll implement them for the next version.

    Logan said this on February 12th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

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    D&D 4e Online Resources | Mad Brew Labs said this on February 12th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

  12. First off, fantastic job on this. The HTML exports are gorgeous and I’m loving it! Two other things I’d be grateful, though, that I noticed while I inputting FF6Shadow’s lancer class… The ability to notate custom “specials” based on class feature selection would be nice (for example, many warlock powers have special give-me’s based on which pact you have). Another thing would be to be able to note a range of “Weapon + 1″ and similar… maybe not that common, but it’s one of the central concepts of the lancer class. Thanks and keep up the fantastic work!

    Crimson-Hawk said this on February 16th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

  13. @Crimson-Hawk: Custom specials are definitely something I’d like to add. Thanks for the reminder!

    As for the Weapon + 1 one stuff, could you point me to an example (preferably a URL)?

    Logan said this on February 16th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

  14. Thanks for the quick response, Logan. I wish I had a class that was written up in HTML. The lancer class I’m referencing is only in PDF. Here is the link to it, though.

    http://www.4shared.com/file/63942161/fe6453cb/Custom_Class_Lancer.html

    Lunge [1E] and Clear the Way [17E] are two examples of the Melee Weapon + 1 range. He has a couple of other powers with unconventional ranges, like Assaulting Flurry [17E] which has a range of Close Blast Melee Weapon.

    Crimson-Hawk said this on February 16th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

  15. [...] EN World, Play-Write is a blog written by a guy named Logan Booker who’s got a really nice power creator and is working on a character class creator as [...]

    Encounter-a-Day » Archive » 4e Software said this on February 18th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

  16. [...] over a week since the 4e Power Toolkit was released and close to 1150 people have checked it out already! I’d hate to leave them hanging for an [...]

    Playwrite: 4e Power Toolkit v0.2 Beta released said this on February 19th, 2009 at 12:40 am

  17. Is there any way to create a power with selectable ability modifiers (seep FRPG page 22)? That would allow me to create powers similar to spell scarred powers that have the character select the ability to use with the power when they first select it. Great job on the app BTW.

    DerekSTheRed said this on March 2nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm

  18. I like it so far (Just downloaded it) But why doesn’t the Race creator work?

    Dionon said this on March 13th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

  19. Awesome stuff. I spent hours trying to put together a spreadsheet and this was just so much easier. Using 0.2 beta.

    Wishlist:
    - higher quality PDF export
    - PDF export to different page sizes (just custom X and Y boxes would be enough)
    - scroll bars for Effect text input box on Power Creator

    It’s brilliant already though, thanks for the hard work!

    JokeyRhyme said this on March 26th, 2009 at 1:02 am

  20. Needs updating to allow powers that have a Melee range greater than 1, such as Thorn Strike the Warden Attack 1 At-Will that is Melee 2

    DM aple said this on April 6th, 2009 at 4:35 am

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    Wizards’ Monk Playtest | A Butterfly Dreaming said this on May 11th, 2009 at 5:53 am

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    Playwrite: The 4e Power Toolkit in action: The Necromancer said this on May 11th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

  23. Hey

    I to am developing software for AD&D and have written for several online magazines where my work was published on a weekly basis, I even submitted my applications thru them.

    I would be willing to trade applications with you. Any chance I could look at the source code of your application. I would send mine to you. Drop me a line

    Hope to work with you soon!

    Earl Harrison said this on August 4th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

  24. [...] Playwright – Here you’ll find a tool that can be used to create custom power cards, classes and races. An earlier version of this tool was used to create our Necromancer powers. [...]

    A Dragon’s Horde of D&D Resources — Dungeon's Master said this on October 15th, 2009 at 5:02 am

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