Critique my D&D tool

[DNH]

power2ool is pretty much the dog's. I have posted on here before about updating older monsters and older adventures to use the revised monster maths and power2ool is making this process a lot less painful than it might have been, especially with the "automatic stats" feature. I am generating revised statblocks for all the monsters and NPCs then printing them out and pasting them in to the adventures, over the outdated ones.

Kudos to doublewumpus, in short. And a *bump* to get this thing noticed.

 

[eamon]

I've ran into what I think is a new bug, but I can't exactly replicate it on a consistent basis.

Sometimes, when I'm repeatedly alt+tabbing between power2ool and another window, power2ool seems to lose the Finnish/Swedish layout of my keyboard. I'm using Chrome on a Win7 32bit, if that matters.
The first time I ran into the bug, I was alt+tabbing between two different Chrome windows, and another time between the power2ool Chrome window and an Adobe Reader window.
The problem seems to be with power2ool only, as I was able to type normally in the address bar of the same Chrome window that power2ool was in.

You're probably inadvertently changing the input language: this is a windows misfeature. If you press left-alt and shift, you switch languages; and IIRC this actually occurs on a per-process (who thought that made sense ???) level; and since chrome (and IE9) use a separate process for browser chrome and web content, you can easily - particularly when alt-tabbing - switch the input langage for web content only.

It's a terribly confusing misfeature. See How to avoid keyboard layout automatically changing on windows - Super User for more discussion and a way to disable it. Incidentally, if you always use the same input language anyhow, you can just remove the other languages from the keyboard layouts altogether - this doesn't affect spelling correct or currency or whatnot, it's just about keyboard layouts - and that has the slight advantage that you won't see an icon in the notification area concerning language settings.

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

power2ool is pretty much the dog's. I have posted on here before about updating older monsters and older adventures to use the revised monster maths and power2ool is making this process a lot less painful than it might have been, especially with the "automatic stats" feature. I am generating revised statblocks for all the monsters and NPCs then printing them out and pasting them in to the adventures, over the outdated ones.

Kudos to doublewumpus, in short. And a *bump* to get this thing noticed.

While I agree the tool is awesome, you want to be careful using the "automatic stats" feature... the levelling doesn't work quite right if you are relevelling a creature (rather than building one from scratch). The thing to be the most careful of is that while it does change damage, it doesn't change the attack bonuses.

That said, I believe DW is going to put in a feature for relevelling existing monsters, which will be heavenly.

 

[zoggynog]

[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?

I currently print them directly to a 4X3 note card. Most printers these days can handle the size. The ability to print out item cards, power cards, and (improved) monster cards straight to a 4X3 card would be ground breaking...and make hand outs very nice.

Also figured I'd throw my hat in for snap-to-grid and a way to create tables so we can load them up with commonly used info.

Again, this is some awesome stuff, please keep it up. Really appreciate coders who take time out to do this sort of a thing. Even more so when they can pull something like this off.

 

[DNH]

While I agree the tool is awesome, you want to be careful using the "automatic stats" feature... the levelling doesn't work quite right if you are relevelling a creature (rather than building one from scratch). The thing to be the most careful of is that while it does change damage, it doesn't change the attack bonuses.

That said, I believe DW is going to put in a feature for relevelling existing monsters, which will be heavenly.

Thanks, Doc. As it happens, I haven't had to relevel many monsters so far. For those that I have, though - say I find an appropriate post-MM3 monster in the Compendium which is good for a direct swap but it's the wrong level - then I fire up the online (so-called) Monster Builder and use that slider tool, which is about the only good thing about the MB.

Note to DW - mmm, slider tool.

 

[Ajar]

I tried this out on the weekend and I'm totally hooked. Love the interface, love having multiple virtual "desktops" to work with, and love the automatic formatting of things like monster powers.

Nice work.

 

[eriktheguy]

The entry for Fomorian Slavedriver just says 'invalid markup'

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I got something similar for a number of the high level solos - haven't tried searching them directly through the compendium, but I suspect the problem is on that end.

 

[ScorpiusRisk]

A lot of monsters pre-MM3, especially in the higher levels, gives this error. I suspect its due to inconsistent setup.

 

[brehobit]

failing :-(

Whole thing is failing for me. Search works, but all cards come up blank. Created a new account just to see if it was something wrong with my old one, but same problem...