Nemesis Destiny
Adventurer
Have you tried it in other browsers? What browser are you using?
Critique my D&D tool
- Thread starter doublewumpus
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brehobit
Explorer
Firefox. It is working in IE though. Thanks so much for the suggestion!
Nemesis Destiny
Adventurer
No problem. I used to do tech support and was a network admin for a while. Does it show?
Out of curiosity, what version of FF were you using? It's been working for me since at least 3.6.x and now on 4.0.x, on three different machines (Vista, Vista on a laptop, and a netbook running 7 Starter). A friend of mine also uses it on his macbook with no difficulty, I'm assuming with Safari.
Actually, now that I think of it, he has pointed out that if he edits a creature or power by renaming it then when he logs back in, he does not need to re-login to the Compendium, but for me, that doesn't work. Any idea why [MENTION=6670472]doublewumpus[/MENTION] ?
doublewumpus
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Woooooooooops!
The notification e-mails from ENWorld stopped showing up, so I assumed the thread was dead. My bad!
Gods, I'm gonna have to work back through the thread to find things to respond to, but for now:
Re: brehobit's issues with Firefox
Not sure why he's having problems. P2 has been tested with FF 3.6 and 4.0, but not with anything older than that. Also, he might have some addon installed in Firefox that's blocking part or all of P2 from working.
Re: "Invalid Markup"
A number of monsters on the Compendium contain invalid XHTML (some tags are left open). Web browsers are designed to handle these errors gracefully, but it makes the XML parser that P2 uses barf all over itself. P2 tries to fix invalid markup when it encounters it (this happens a lot more often than you think) but it still breaks sometimes. A list of offending cards would be useful, though (PM me the name of the monster, or e-mail me).
Re: Any problems people might be having with the printing interface
These bugs have been really hard to fix, since I can't seem to replicate them on my machine. I've added a "Not working?" link on the top left that will e-mail me a set of diagnostics if you click on it.
Re: Monster level slider
Most definitely! I don't have a copy of the Dungeon Master's Kit (which I believe has the most recent level-adjustment rules), which I've been meaning to buy. My local game store never seems to stock the damn thing.
[-]PS: Does anyone know if this forum suports HTML in posts? Specifically iframes in posts? Or embedded flash movies in posts? I leave it up to your imaginations why I'm asking this question.[/-] Nevermind, looks like HTML is disabled. Ah, well.
The notification e-mails from ENWorld stopped showing up, so I assumed the thread was dead. My bad!
Gods, I'm gonna have to work back through the thread to find things to respond to, but for now:
Re: brehobit's issues with Firefox
Not sure why he's having problems. P2 has been tested with FF 3.6 and 4.0, but not with anything older than that. Also, he might have some addon installed in Firefox that's blocking part or all of P2 from working.
Re: "Invalid Markup"
A number of monsters on the Compendium contain invalid XHTML (some tags are left open). Web browsers are designed to handle these errors gracefully, but it makes the XML parser that P2 uses barf all over itself. P2 tries to fix invalid markup when it encounters it (this happens a lot more often than you think) but it still breaks sometimes. A list of offending cards would be useful, though (PM me the name of the monster, or e-mail me).
Re: Any problems people might be having with the printing interface
These bugs have been really hard to fix, since I can't seem to replicate them on my machine. I've added a "Not working?" link on the top left that will e-mail me a set of diagnostics if you click on it.
Re: Monster level slider
Most definitely! I don't have a copy of the Dungeon Master's Kit (which I believe has the most recent level-adjustment rules), which I've been meaning to buy. My local game store never seems to stock the damn thing.
[-]PS: Does anyone know if this forum suports HTML in posts? Specifically iframes in posts? Or embedded flash movies in posts? I leave it up to your imaginations why I'm asking this question.[/-] Nevermind, looks like HTML is disabled. Ah, well.
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doublewumpus
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It's possible to stay "logged in" to the Compendium even if you log out of Power2ool, depending on how long your browser decides to hang on to the Compendium's auth cookie. So, the next time you log in to Power2ool, it'll start fetching your cards from the Compendium without needing to ask you to sign in. If he completely quits his browser and then tries it, he'll probably be prompted to re-auth with the Compendium.
Dalamar
Adventurer
No real new problems with the program so far, and it even stood the test of one session use. Personally, I felt it helped, though my laptop did take a sizable amount of space behind the DM screen. Well, I did run into the maximum number of spaces problem, but that's not a problem per say.
Some suggestions, though:
1) Could you add "Property:" to autofills with item cards? It's pretty common in items, after all
2) Would it be possible to indent more than once in power cards? For example, if I want to do a Secondary Attack line that is indented, and then indent all the information regarding it further
3) How hard would it be that for items that have powers, each power would could be double-clicked to be used separately?
Keep up the good work!
Some suggestions, though:
1) Could you add "Property:" to autofills with item cards? It's pretty common in items, after all
2) Would it be possible to indent more than once in power cards? For example, if I want to do a Secondary Attack line that is indented, and then indent all the information regarding it further
3) How hard would it be that for items that have powers, each power would could be double-clicked to be used separately?
Keep up the good work!
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I recently used your tool to plan two Dark Sun encounters. If was great to put down the stat cards and print them. Much better than the official tools in any verison I've tried so far. auto stats seems also cool, but what I often do is modify existing mosnters. And what the MB is not able to do so far is "minionizing" monsters. Just take a monster and give it minion stats. I think there must be some (semi) official rules for that. Something like gibe it 1 HP and raise all defenses by one. That would be a cool feature, although it's more a feature for the MB itself, but that'll take time.
Everything else went good for the first try except for one thing: My Opera is warning me that I'm sending data to the sever every time I serach a monster. Any idea how I can get rid of that?
Everything else went good for the first try except for one thing: My Opera is warning me that I'm sending data to the sever every time I serach a monster. Any idea how I can get rid of that?
Ferghis
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I urge you to add a button that simply reports bad links. Andrew Reutter did this in iPlay4e and it seems to have worked really well.
Stumblewyk
Adventurer
Hey [MENTION=6670472]doublewumpus[/MENTION],
Just wanted to chime in and say I used power2ool in a recent gaming session, and it worked well. I've used a laptop to DM for years now, and p2 has quickly become my defacto tool.
Thank you.
Now...I've decided I wanted to build a random encounters table (based on the one used by Greg Bilsland), so I made a work space for each encounter, and filled with monster cards from the compendium, and I ran into the "maximum number of work spaces" issue. I'd like to petition to have that cap extended, but I understand that's probably on the back burner as far as issues that need to be addressed.
All-in-all though, a GREAT tool.
Just wanted to chime in and say I used power2ool in a recent gaming session, and it worked well. I've used a laptop to DM for years now, and p2 has quickly become my defacto tool.
Thank you.
Now...I've decided I wanted to build a random encounters table (based on the one used by Greg Bilsland), so I made a work space for each encounter, and filled with monster cards from the compendium, and I ran into the "maximum number of work spaces" issue. I'd like to petition to have that cap extended, but I understand that's probably on the back burner as far as issues that need to be addressed.
All-in-all though, a GREAT tool.
eriktheguy
First Post
Just gonna come back every week to bump this and say thanks.
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