By pure chance, I stumbled upon Masterplan. I have to say, this tool is absolutely fantastic. Need to create a flowchart of your adventure? It’ll do that. Want to make an encounter? Got it. How bout a trap or a skill challenge? That’s covered, too. There are some things that I wish it did that it doesn’t; it’s difficult, for example, to print just one encounter out in a printer-friendly format. Importing monsters from the Rules Compendium is possible, but not intuitive, and you have to do it one monster at a time. Some things, like DCs for skill challenges, are auto-calculated, while other things, like damage and attack bonuses for traps, are not.

All that aside, though, this is a great tool that is under active development, and the creator is receptive to feedback. I hope that the Adventure Tools that Wizards is making will be something like this, because I’m imagining something with the functionality of Masterplan, but tied to the Rules Compendium and to the Monster Builder, and it makes me very happy.

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