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<blockquote data-quote="PJ Coffey" data-source="post: 9053106" data-attributes="member: 6901867"><p>From the finished article, Daniel Kwan wrote:</p><p></p><p>• The encounter mode seen in the existing marketing videos automatically rolls and tracks initiative.</p><p></p><p>• When selecting an attack or spell, the system automatically highlights valid targets. This is a nice accessibility feature. The system similarly does this for movement, highlighting the area within a characters base movement speed</p><p></p><p>• Objects weren’t particularly interactive and the terrain board felt like a static art piece. There were a lot of interesting features that I wanted to click on, but everything apart from the miniatures wasn’t interactive. Doors didn’t open or close and furniture pieces were fixed in place. I’d love to be able to tip a table over to create cover for my character!</p><p></p><p>• Despite what I liked about the hide walls feature, structures did not have multiple levels. Some of my biggest frustrations were not being able to put my rogue miniature atop a tree or position my ranger in an over watch position on the roof of a building.</p><p></p><p>• While encounter mode was nice (see my note on initiative tracking), it lacked action tracking. There were no indicators of whether a character still had any actions, a bonus action, or a reaction available after casting spells or rolling attacks</p><p></p><p>====</p><p>PJ Coffey writes:</p><p></p><p>I'm a 3pp developer. I have a book on vehicles sloooowly wending it's way to general release.</p><p>It seems... unlikely that short of me climbing mount impossible and learning to code on top of my day job and my TTRPG design that I'll get anywhere with this. </p><p></p><p>I have extensive character creation books and feats which mess with things like initiatives. Not all base speeds are 30 in my books and I kinda don't want them to be and if you're buying my stuff than that's fine. Not all the character options I offer come in Medium and Small either. They're not all bipedal. I guess it depends what you consider acceptable really. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😀" title="Grinning face :grinning:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" data-shortname=":grinning:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PJ Coffey, post: 9053106, member: 6901867"] From the finished article, Daniel Kwan wrote: • The encounter mode seen in the existing marketing videos automatically rolls and tracks initiative. • When selecting an attack or spell, the system automatically highlights valid targets. This is a nice accessibility feature. The system similarly does this for movement, highlighting the area within a characters base movement speed • Objects weren’t particularly interactive and the terrain board felt like a static art piece. There were a lot of interesting features that I wanted to click on, but everything apart from the miniatures wasn’t interactive. Doors didn’t open or close and furniture pieces were fixed in place. I’d love to be able to tip a table over to create cover for my character! • Despite what I liked about the hide walls feature, structures did not have multiple levels. Some of my biggest frustrations were not being able to put my rogue miniature atop a tree or position my ranger in an over watch position on the roof of a building. • While encounter mode was nice (see my note on initiative tracking), it lacked action tracking. There were no indicators of whether a character still had any actions, a bonus action, or a reaction available after casting spells or rolling attacks ==== PJ Coffey writes: I'm a 3pp developer. I have a book on vehicles sloooowly wending it's way to general release. It seems... unlikely that short of me climbing mount impossible and learning to code on top of my day job and my TTRPG design that I'll get anywhere with this. I have extensive character creation books and feats which mess with things like initiatives. Not all base speeds are 30 in my books and I kinda don't want them to be and if you're buying my stuff than that's fine. Not all the character options I offer come in Medium and Small either. They're not all bipedal. I guess it depends what you consider acceptable really. 😀 [/QUOTE]
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