Dannager
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Oooh, interesting. Maybe an object you can add to the field from the toolbar that would display this information?
Critique my D&D tool
- Thread starter doublewumpus
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Wow. Words fail the awesomeness of this app.
I can feel this replacing several of the tools I currently use as a DM.
As a DM I wanted to make the following suggestions/feature requests.
In the future, you might consider an option on "how" you would like to sign in to Power2ool. Perhaps a DM view and a Player view. If these workspaces were able to sync to each other, a DM view could have tabs for each players workspace, in addition to their own. When in a tab for a player, you could let the DM be able to add notes/items/whatever that can be toggled as invisible to the player. This way the DM can organize notes about a character, or relay exactly what it was they were able to steal from their fellow player at the right moment.
Implementing a "Character Sheet" widget/gadget would really help a poor DM keep up with the abilities/items/stats of others on the fly. It would be nice to have a collapsible (minimize/maximize) widget with stats for a player. Nice and easy way to check things like passive perception/insight, base stats, those sort of things. Again, letting that info propagate across from a Player to a DM would be awesome.
Imagine something like "stacks" in osx, but they would be a stack of "cards" with only the top titles peeking out until you click them. Then they expand to show all the cards. A DM could use this to have stacks of power cards for each player. Then when they needed to quick reference a player's ability (I don't know many GM's with all of these power memorized...) they can click on the stack. When they click off the stack, the cards all flop back into a nice little space.
One last idea. A print option to create an export file that can be printed to 4X3 blank note cards. One "virtual" card at a time. A quick way to make consistent official and home-brew item cards would be slick. Or imagine a nice little set of monster stat cards...printed right from power2ool.
My obsession with printed note cards can best be understood by viewing this blog entry (not mine).
The Creak of Boots: ILLUSTRATED WILDLIFE TREASURY
Anyways, please keep up the amazing work. Haven't seen something this promising for 4e since before Wotc shut down Masterplan compendium integration.
I can feel this replacing several of the tools I currently use as a DM.
As a DM I wanted to make the following suggestions/feature requests.
In the future, you might consider an option on "how" you would like to sign in to Power2ool. Perhaps a DM view and a Player view. If these workspaces were able to sync to each other, a DM view could have tabs for each players workspace, in addition to their own. When in a tab for a player, you could let the DM be able to add notes/items/whatever that can be toggled as invisible to the player. This way the DM can organize notes about a character, or relay exactly what it was they were able to steal from their fellow player at the right moment.
Implementing a "Character Sheet" widget/gadget would really help a poor DM keep up with the abilities/items/stats of others on the fly. It would be nice to have a collapsible (minimize/maximize) widget with stats for a player. Nice and easy way to check things like passive perception/insight, base stats, those sort of things. Again, letting that info propagate across from a Player to a DM would be awesome.
Imagine something like "stacks" in osx, but they would be a stack of "cards" with only the top titles peeking out until you click them. Then they expand to show all the cards. A DM could use this to have stacks of power cards for each player. Then when they needed to quick reference a player's ability (I don't know many GM's with all of these power memorized...) they can click on the stack. When they click off the stack, the cards all flop back into a nice little space.
One last idea. A print option to create an export file that can be printed to 4X3 blank note cards. One "virtual" card at a time. A quick way to make consistent official and home-brew item cards would be slick. Or imagine a nice little set of monster stat cards...printed right from power2ool.
My obsession with printed note cards can best be understood by viewing this blog entry (not mine).
The Creak of Boots: ILLUSTRATED WILDLIFE TREASURY
Anyways, please keep up the amazing work. Haven't seen something this promising for 4e since before Wotc shut down Masterplan compendium integration.
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Ferdil
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The tool is really great, this seems to be the thing I've been wanting for a long time.
Features needed:
Features needed:
- The ability to make blocks also for class features or other things. The notes are quite ugly and some nicely formatted stuff would be nice.
- The ability to have multiple sheets to organize things
- The color on the "standard action"/"minor action" cell in the monster block is too dark
- Ability to make tables
- A character sheet widget would be very nice
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doublewumpus
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Hey guys, sorry this last update took so long. It was...er, more complex than I expected.
Now you can have multiple workspaces: Power2ool: The Space Browser on Vimeo
[MENTION=97538]Nullzone[/MENTION] There was a small bug in the monster damage tables, but now that I look at it, that probably wasn't what you were talking about. I'm using the damage table in the back of the DMG, is there an updated version?
The encounter counter is interesting! I'll add it to the todo list.
[MENTION=71730]Ferdil[/MENTION] Not sure what you're talking about re: standard action/minor action
[MENTION=65861]zoggynog[/MENTION] Thanks for the ideas! As far as 4x3 note card printing, do you just want them to change to be the same size as 4x3 cards? I'm not sure how that would work, do you print them out on large paper and then cut out the pieces you want, or do you print them directly onto 4x3 cardstock?
Now you can have multiple workspaces: Power2ool: The Space Browser on Vimeo
[MENTION=97538]Nullzone[/MENTION] There was a small bug in the monster damage tables, but now that I look at it, that probably wasn't what you were talking about. I'm using the damage table in the back of the DMG, is there an updated version?
The encounter counter is interesting! I'll add it to the todo list.
[MENTION=71730]Ferdil[/MENTION] Not sure what you're talking about re: standard action/minor action
[MENTION=65861]zoggynog[/MENTION] Thanks for the ideas! As far as 4x3 note card printing, do you just want them to change to be the same size as 4x3 cards? I'm not sure how that would work, do you print them out on large paper and then cut out the pieces you want, or do you print them directly onto 4x3 cardstock?
Dannager
First Post
Nikosandros
Golden Procrastinator
After reading about this tool back when you wrote the OP, I finally used it while running last week session. It proved really useful and it's much faster and convenient to have all the monster "cards" for an encounter in this fashion than trying to copy and paste from the Compendium. Truly a well done tool! 
Having multiple work spaces was the first thing that I though about, so I'm quite naturally very pleased to find that is has already been implemented... as I play with it some more, hopefully I'll have some useful feedback to provide. In the meantime, I would like to thank you for this tool.
P.S.
Actually, I noticed something that might be a bug. When using the character tab and then selecting a bard, cutting words is not listed among first level powers.
Having multiple work spaces was the first thing that I though about, so I'm quite naturally very pleased to find that is has already been implemented... as I play with it some more, hopefully I'll have some useful feedback to provide. In the meantime, I would like to thank you for this tool.
P.S.
Actually, I noticed something that might be a bug. When using the character tab and then selecting a bard, cutting words is not listed among first level powers.
doublewumpus
First Post
Sweet! Thanks.
At the moment, the classes browser only shows powers from rule books, not all sources (the reasons for this decision are lost to time). I keep meaning to add a "sources" option there...
For now, if you really want the card you can search for it in the Search interface =\
Nikosandros
Golden Procrastinator
Fair enough and I had noticed that you could find the power through the search interface. Since I still have limited experience with the tool, I hadn't noticed that only books are included as sources in the class browser.
Nemesis Destiny
Adventurer
Wow. This looks amazing. I'm recommending this to every other DM in my group (4 out of the 7 of us).
I will try to get you some feedback on it from them after they've had a chance to try it.
As for suggestions, I would also like to see a character widget, but I fear trying to compete with the WotC version might get you the kind of attention you don't want. That said, the ability to customize powers (including all the fluff) is something many of us have been asking WotC for, for quite some time now. They have yet to deliver.
I will try to get you some feedback on it from them after they've had a chance to try it.
As for suggestions, I would also like to see a character widget, but I fear trying to compete with the WotC version might get you the kind of attention you don't want. That said, the ability to customize powers (including all the fluff) is something many of us have been asking WotC for, for quite some time now. They have yet to deliver.
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