Tutorials

The tutorials give you step-by-step instructions on how to use DM Genie. They are a great way to learn it quickly, and are highly recommended for first time users. To start a tutorial, go to the Help menu in the main window, select “Tutorials” and click on the tutorial of your choice. To move the tutorial window out of the way, click anywhere on the form except a button or text box, and drag with the mouse.

A window will move around the screen, pointing at various buttons and text boxes, explaining their purpose. Click “Next” to go to the next step in the tutorial. Click “Prev” to go back one step. Click “Restart” to start over at the beginning. Click “More Help” to open the help file to explain more. The tutorial window will minimize, click on it again in the taskbar to open it again. Finally, click “Close” to end the tutorial at any time.

Sometimes, the tutorial will ask you to perform an action, such as clicking a button or entering text. Do the action before clicking Next, or else future steps may not make sense or be possible to do. At anytime during the tutorial, don't hesitate to stop and play around with the buttons in the window, and then return to the tutorial – it's a great way to learn.

Tutorials Available

To completely learn DM Genie, it is best to do all the tutorials in order. The 2^nd and 3^rd tutorials are the most important and will get you running a game in the shortest amount of time.

• Main Window: The information displayed in the main window and how to edit it.
• Adding PCs and Monsters: How to select a race and create a new PC or monster and add it to the right group. It will also guide you through the PC Leveling Wizard. Finally, it will show you how to generate creatures from stat blocks.
• Combat: Step-by-step instructions on running a battle: making the list of creatures and PCs, rolling initiative, going from creature to creature making attacks and actions, and delaying/readying characters. This is the most useful of the tutorials.
• Managing Groups: How to create and delete groups, and moving creatures around between them. (Not available in Player Genie)
• Creating and Editing Races: Views the information displayed for a race and how to change it or create your own races.
• Time and Weather: Keep track of the current time, generate weather based on the location's climate, calculate traveling speeds and distances. (Not available in Player Genie)
• Creating Adventures: Use the adventure tree; add descriptions, items and monsters; create hyperlinks and clickable maps. (Not available in Player Genie)
• Handling Items: Use the Items Editor to create or edit items, associate conditions. Manage a creature's inventory, an adventure's treasure and appraise the items.
• Importing and Exporting: Learn how to share data with your players and other DMs by exporting anything from a single creature to an entire campaign.
• Customizing your Campaign: Create your own gaming world by entering custom skills, feats, spells and items into DM Genie.

The entire text of all the tutorials is Open Game Content, and is licensed for public use under the terms of the Open Gaming License v1.0a .