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KaiPax wrote: And Bunsen: Really? A spreadsheet? I'm impressed! I have post it notes to remind me which monsters I'm working on. Keep them on the backside of the iPad. Throw the slips of paper away when I've fed the monsters and move on to the next. How do you have time to even keep track of stuff in that detail? That's engineer-type behavior in my experience. (I run a volunteer program and when an engineer comes to volunteer, I am always happy. They are on time, problem solvers with some creative thinking abilities. And they remind me of my brothers.) I will plead guilty to "engineer-type". In Canada, "engineer" is a licensed and regulated profession; I am not an engineer, though I've been a "Software Engineer" as a job title. I'm a research chemist by academic background, software developer by life's little quirks and ironies.

It really takes very little time to do the spreadsheet -- feed a monster, update a few entries in the table according to its new demands. Setting it up in the first place took a little while because I had a dozen or so monsters to enter. I still want to add more columns to show the resource needs, e.g. the number of apple juices needed because of the tropical slime, apple juice pops, etc., and that takes a little longer.