Being an online game sometimes we need things that table top games don't. For one thing character sheets are all digital. From turn tracking, battle damage tracking, Character creation software and others.
Since this is an online game there needs to be a way to get character sheets easily to the GM. To that end we all use the Hero Designer software from Hero Games.
In the Open RPG software you can add a Character Node, which is a specialized XML Character Sheet that includes all the character stats, and a special section to send dice rolls directly to the chat room. Since the Hero Designer program allows you to export a character to a file of your choosing (as long as the file format is a basic text item, such as HTML, XML, Text, RTF, or anything else similar) I created a specialized Export File for ORPG. Note: Requires Hero Designer Version 3 or later.
To speed up play I also created a few other tools. In particular the Terran Empire Setting from Hero Games proved to be especially time consuming. In TE each ship has five layers of Defense, two of which are Ablative, stacked one on top of each other. While this isn't difficult to handle, it can slow down combat. To speed things up I created a TE Battle Tracker Spreadsheet.
Also, along with that, Map Tools does not come with a Hero System Turn/Phase tracker, and the one in ORPG is (in my opinion) clunky at best, overly cumbersome at worst. I also created a simple Xcel Spreadsheet to track Combat Phases.