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5e Encounter Sheet

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Shwaffle's 5e Encounter Sheet

1/28/20
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This sheet is intended to make a DM's prep time significantly shorter by compiling all the necessary info needed for a combat encounter in seconds. DM's are able to modify most data after it has populated onto the sheet allowing for any customizing you would like!

I will always have this available for free because I want to help all DM's with their campaign planning. I do this in my free time as a coding hobby. If you feel this tool is worth it, please give it a review and share with your friends! If you love it feel free to throw me some beer money, but you are not obligated to.

Todo

  • Manuals to add: Monster Hunter for 5e
  • Create 'lists' like Monster types, terrain, plane etc
  • Add option for the sheet to roll initiative for selected monsters (Will not be adding options for Player characters)
  • Add encounter Challenge Rating based on the monsters selected (Encounter Difficulty)
  • Optimize Attacks and Actions to remove repetative text and make lines overall less wordy
  • Ability to import custom data

Changelog


v1.63 (12/27/18)

  • Small update, added Lost Mines of Phandelver to the sheet.
  • Hid the encounter difficulty part for the time being, as I have been getting negative reviews and feedback due to it.


v1.62 (11/18/18)

  • Fixed issue with 'Skills' not showing properly
  • Added in the Constitution Modifier for the hit dice due to demand


v1.61 (7/19/18)

This one is all bug fixes! I highly recommend deleting all previous copies to make sure you're using this version. I would also love to know if this alerts people when I update? Is there any other way I should be alerting people? Let me know.

  • Went through and tested all monsters so none of them should error out. Please report any oddities and bugs on GitHub
  • Changed the verbiage of two-handed variant attacks in the descriptions to make it more apparent
  • Fixed a bug where some attacks wouldn't show based on the ability
  • Small code changes for consistency


v1.6 (7/7/18)

This feels like a small update due to the changelog, but I think the way I reworked how you choose a monster is such a big addition that I wanted to push it out as quickly as possible. This has been something I've wanted to add for quite a while so it feels nice that it's finally finished. This is the groundwork I needed to get the different lists into the sheet so let me know what you think!

  • Added an icon for Tortle Package for fun
  • Added info on how to contact me


v1.51 (7/2/18)

* Fixed a typo that caused Tales from the Yawning Portal not to work.


v1.5 (6/24/18)

Per usual I took too long with me recent update. This is a big one so I hope it makes up for the delay in the new manuals! I would love to have some input from users on what they think needs to be changed or added. After submitting this file, I'm going to begin work in a single page monster sheet. This will be extremely beneficial for boss level monsters that have a large traits/actions section. After that, I would like to work on an initiative order page! That sounds like a fun challange so I hope it turns out well. I appreciate everyones support and thank you for using my sheet! You can contact me at the GitHub link below, or you can message me on Reddit @ /u/Shwaffle.


I have also put all of the monster information up on my Github. You can view all of the data and submit errors on my repo here.

Fixes

  • Fixed the font size of Speed so it's actually readable.
  • Encounter XP was only pulling the XP from the top monster. I am very sorry for those that relied on this and were given the wrong information.
  • Previous versions of the sheet would disable form highlighting for Adobe globally. This has been fixed to re-enable form highlighting on close.
  • Fixed a lot of errors in Monster Imports


Additions

  • Added Tome of Beasts.
  • Added Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes.
  • Added The Tortle Package.
  • Added radio buttons at the top to select whether or not you would like Adobe's field highlighting. I think it looks better off, but choose what you'd like!
  • Added some nice icons for the manuals you select.



You can view all previous changelog entries on my GitHub Repo.

Special Thanks

  • MorePurpleMoreBetter - I contacted MPMB asking if I could use a few snippets of his code for his Character Sheets and create a fully automated encounter sheet. He not only pointed me in a great direction to get this completed, he wrote up small section of code to showcase what his sheet does in a simple manner. Without the amazing collaboration with him, I would have struggled for much longer. I highly suggest checking out his character sheets of you haven't already.
  • Neskatomon & designbot on Reddit - The encounter sheet they initially created was my inspiration and base for this.
  • Ceryliae & Team - I am able to continue adding more content faster because I can utilize the XML they provide and convert it to a more user friendly JSON format. Check out their work at https://github.com/ceryliae/DnDAppFiles Ceryliae's project has been retired as of 2/1/18


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James L April 04, 2023 12:47 am UTC
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Your previews are flat busted. I think it's a DMsGuild issue, sometimes I get an error, sometimes it goes to the main page of the website.
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Jeffrey C March 09, 2023 2:07 am UTC
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Amazing Sheet. I wish he had the motivation to update it. I have purchased hundreds of items from sites and this is one of the top purchases as a DM.
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John C January 14, 2023 6:15 am UTC
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This is an awesome product.....is it every week for our weekly game at the table!!! BUY IT! Its worth it!
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JAMES H June 23, 2022 7:22 pm UTC
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is there a instruction sheet on all that this does?
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Shwaffle . March 21, 2022 4:33 pm UTC
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Hi everyone, I am sorry for the ghosting of the project. The last few years have definitely been an interesting one. I had originally planned to release a bunch of new books in the file and right before I did so, I realized I accidentally deleted a couple of items from each monster somehow (Specifically HP and SPEED) - Hundreds of monsters that I had to go through one by one to confirm and correct....And no apparent revision history to merge them back.

I felt pretty defeated and overwhelmed by it, and then with covid things just went sideways. I haven't played D&D in years now, so I don't want to promise anything but I will try to revisit this and make these updates I promised back in 2020. I really do appreciate all the kind words and compliments people have sent me. I am really glad I've been able to help so many DMs shorten their setup time.
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Erin L June 01, 2022 8:45 am UTC
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Oof, that's heartbreaking :( Thank you for the things you've written though! We appreciate your efforts very much.
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John T February 01, 2023 2:13 pm UTC
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That is rough, is there a way we can contribute help? If the process is fairly straightforward, I may have extra helpers available too.

This project is amazing.
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John C March 20, 2022 9:46 pm UTC
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Does this product not work on Windows 10? I have updated my PC and re-downloaded my purchased copy to my new PC but when selecting from a sourcebook, does not bring up the list of monsters to populate the sheet. What am I doing wrong?
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Shwaffle . March 21, 2022 4:27 pm UTC
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Hi John,

Make sure you have Javascript enabled in Adobe's settings, that is the only thing I can think of that would cause the sheet to not work. (Edit > Preferences > JavaScript)
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John C April 19, 2022 7:03 am UTC
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Thanks, got it working. Want to congratulate you on a great product. Use it alot. Thanks! What other products do you provide?
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Clay P February 17, 2022 6:51 pm UTC
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Will you be updating these to current 2022 books such as Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft and or other books released in 2020 to 2022?
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Aviad B November 30, 2021 10:27 pm UTC
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how does it work?
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John C July 26, 2021 1:27 am UTC
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This is awesome....did you happen to create this for 2e or 3e game play???
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Dustin D December 29, 2020 6:38 pm UTC
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I downloaded this ages ago, and I'm getting back into things for my wife and daughter. Have the updates mentioned at the beginning of the year been added?
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Gregory C August 13, 2021 5:44 pm UTC
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As of August 2021:
Sadly, no. While this remains a nice static tool for tracking encounters, the part that autofills monster stats is stuck in 2018.
I hope Shwaffle is OK. :-(
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Allen M January 01, 2022 6:06 pm UTC
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Agreed on all counts.
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Joshua Y November 12, 2020 6:18 pm UTC
Just getting back into the game after a 3 year break. My 13 and 14 yr old sons had me dust off the old 3 and 3.5 books and run them thru the Forge of Fury module. After watching the enjoyment they got from the run i decided to jump back in completely. Found this site 3 days ago. Your encounter sheet is a must anyone planning to run the game. It has cut the time it takes me to prep encounters by 3/4. And with two eager new gamers drooling over my shoulder waiting for their next fix this is exactly what I needed. So from me and on behalf of my sons I would like to say thank you. This is a godsend!
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Adam H July 17, 2020 11:06 am UTC
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Downloaded this ages ago and completely forgot about it, have just found it again and it is the only enounter sheet i will use now. This product is amazing
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Brad D May 10, 2020 3:25 pm UTC
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Wow!!!! Why can't I review this for a day? It only took a few minutes to recognize the powerful magic item I now possess!
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C R R January 30, 2020 4:25 pm UTC
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I was looking for a form fillable party tracker for our session 1 of Tomb of Annihilation this weekend. In a bit of a hurry, I found this, scanned the descrip, and downloaded it thinking that it would fit the bill. However, after opening it up I realized what its capable of and I. am. floored. Initially, I didn't know what I had. I lucked-out finding this tool. It is amazing and more useful than I could have dreamed for this huge, complicated TOA campaign I have planned. Thanks to you, Shwaffle! I'm definitely a fan. I'm grateful and impressed. Every DM should have this in the toolbox!
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Shwaffle . January 28, 2020 4:23 am UTC
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Hey all!

I appreciate all the support! You have all been great.

I am sorry I have dropped the ball with this, but I just wanted to post and say that I have been working on the following items and will be pushing a v1.64 with these added sources.

Acquisitions Incorporated
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Mordenkainen’s Fiendish Folio
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Waterdeep - Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Baldur’s Gate Descent into Avernus
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

I am also working on a v2 that I will get finished some time this year. I'll be moving a lot of stuff to dialog windows that has allowed more room for actual monster info on the sheets. I have also redone the back page to be an encounter tracker. Here's a few screenshots:

Front Page: https://i.imgur.com/tjLb5V9.png
Landscape Back: https://i.imgur.com/Mv2tbbC.png
Portrait Back: https://i.imgur.com/m2567sB.png...See more
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Shwaffle . January 28, 2020 4:23 am UTC
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* My goal is end of February for everything, but depending on time I may push Eberron and Ravnica to a separate release
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Sean W January 28, 2020 9:36 pm UTC
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Yes! Looking forward to it!
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Shwaffle . January 29, 2020 12:04 am UTC
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Also Ghosts of Saltmarsh.
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Allen M March 06, 2020 4:56 am UTC
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Excellent! Thank you very much in advance!
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Matthias B March 15, 2020 10:19 pm UTC
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Anything in coding you could need/would accept support?
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Allen M August 16, 2021 7:03 pm UTC
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It's been 18 months. Still coming along?
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John C March 21, 2022 5:11 am UTC
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Hoping that you can assist me.....I can not seem to get this product to work on my new PC with Windows 10.....any help is appreciated.
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Hugh M November 18, 2019 12:23 am UTC
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Fantastic tool. An absolute must-have for veterans and newcomers alike. Great work!
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