D&D 5E A Monster Making tool for 5e

[FallenWyvern]

Originally Posted by Azzy
If it's a lot of trouble, don't worry about it. The fact that you'd even seriously consider it makes you freaking awesome as far as I'm concerned.


The goal is to make something everyone can use. I'm actually at the point I might re-create it in html5/canvas/js and use electron or some other framework to distribute it so it can run on Mac/Linux/Windows/Web, but for now I *have* this product and I'd like it to be accessible.

Edit to add quote from Azzy.

 

[FallenWyvern]

It is a cool little program, but I have to disable antivirus every time I run it or the exe gets removed as a suspicious program.

Windows 10? I get that too. I dunno what it actually takes to be 'legit' to it, but my source code is all available over at github (https://github.com/FallenWyvern/DnD-Monster-Generator) for inspection. Plus .net is super reflectable, so anyone could easily tell if my app was shady and warn everyone. I don't make malware, which is why I open source it: so people can trust my code.

 

[FallenWyvern]

Async as a concept actually originated with F# back in 4.0, and there's nothing fundamental which prevents C# compilers which understand async from targetting 4.0. It's really just syntactic sugar. I haven't used the following but the Microsoft announcement says it allows you to use async with .NET 4.0-targetting code:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2013/04/17/microsoft-bcl-async-is-now-stable.aspx

My code is at https://github.com/FallenWyvern/DnD-Monster-Generator

When I target 4.0, it gives me errors about some async types not being available. Tasks.Tasks has no definition for Delay and iAsyncStateMachine is not defined in CSC (which seems to be an error in the compiler itself?)

If you have a suggestion on how I could hammer those out, I'd easily update to 3.0 with WinXP support (for Azzy's sake)

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

My code is at https://github.com/FallenWyvern/DnD-Monster-Generator

When I target 4.0, it gives me errors about some async types not being available. Tasks.Tasks has no definition for Delay and iAsyncStateMachine is not defined in CSC (which seems to be an error in the compiler itself?)

If you have a suggestion on how I could hammer those out, I'd easily update to 3.0 with WinXP support (for Azzy's sake)

Do you get that error message even after installing Microsoft.Bcl.Async? I had the impression that resolving those kinds of errors is what Microsoft.Bcl.Async was for.

I may take a look later today, but I'm also busy with church stuff and my parsing app, so no guarantees.

 

[possessedbyfiredemon]

Sorry to be annoying but being really bad at computers how do I install this?

 

[FallenWyvern]

Do you get that error message even after installing Microsoft.Bcl.Async? I had the impression that resolving those kinds of errors is what Microsoft.Bcl.Async was for.

I may take a look later today, but I'm also busy with church stuff and my parsing app, so no guarantees.

Actually Bcl worked but I still had Task.Delay issues so I found a workaround someone else implemented. I'm down to 4.0! Hopefully Azzy can try it out!

 

[FallenWyvern]

Sorry to be annoying but being really bad at computers how do I install this?

Nothing annoying about someone asking for information. So download the .rar file from my site (either copy/pasting my url thegeniusinc.com/dd-monster-maker-download/ or using the link posted on page 2) and decompress it anywhere. You can run DND_Monster.exe from that folder to execute. However, if you don't have the pre-requisites installed it won't function. Links to those are also on my site. If you're on Windows 8/10 you should be fine.

 

[SkidAce]

Worked in Windows 10 for me...no virus alerts.

 

[FallenWyvern]

Worked in Windows 10 for me...no virus alerts.

I'm not getting virus alerts, it's the 'unrecognized software' uac bs. It DID however make me realize UAC was on AFTER upgrading from 8 so good and bad popup.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

Sorry to be annoying but being really bad at computers how do I install this?

If your computer says something like "Unknown file extension RAR", you'll want to install 7-zip to be able to unzip the DND_monster file. Get the 7-zip MSI here: http://www.7-zip.org/

Then you can right-click on the DND_Monster RAR file in the file explorer and tell it to "extract here". It will create a folder called DND_Monster, and within that folder will be a program called DND_Monster.exe. Double-click on that program and it will start.

Using 7-zip to extract the folder is what FallenWyvern means by "decompress it anywhere."