Heroforge version 5 released

[SubMensa]

Unfortunately, Heroforge says the to hit should be +12/+7.

Which is right?

In this case Heroforge is correct. As rapiers are not light weapons, when you dual wield them both attacks area at a -4.

Rapier: You can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to attack rolls with a rapier sized for you, even though it isn’t a light weapon for you. You can’t wield a rapier in two hands in order to apply 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus to damage.

 

[dpmcalister]

Thanks, I'd forgotten that a rapier isn't a light weapon

 

[Troll Wizard]

I am getting this same bug, with the same OS/Excel Combo. It happens for any of the lvl based stat boosts. I was able to make it work fine on my work machine W2k/Of2k. I'm going to bring it home this evening and see if having them already done causes any problems. Probably not since everything else works fine so far.

It will not work with Apple machines. They have asked many times for an Apple programmer (with VB) to step forward and help, but no one has. Also there were rumors on the HF board, about future versions of MAC/Office moving from Visual Basic to Applescript, which further negates any chance of Heroforge working on Apple machines. Unless someone steps up to develop a dedicated Apple version.

 

[Rackhir]

It will not work with Apple machines. They have asked many times for an Apple programmer (with VB) to step forward and help, but no one has. Also there were rumors on the HF board, about future versions of MAC/Office moving from Visual Basic to Applescript, which further negates any chance of Heroforge working on Apple machines. Unless someone steps up to develop a dedicated Apple version.

I have some VB experience and I've tried poking around to see what's causing it, but it seems like it's a more fundamental problem since even with, calculations turned off, VB paused and break points set, it crashes immediately.

 

[dvvega]

I'm a Mac programmer/Excel user and I've looked and many character sheets that use Excel. Almost all of them crash in some way or another.

The reasons are fundamentally related to

1) the implementation of VB on the seperate OSes (OS X is much stricter and crappier)
2) in general VB hobbyist programmers do not watch their coding
3) Although Office for the Mac is a much better product, the VB implementation is not.

This is not a finger-point at any of the developers of Heroforge since it is fantastic, but the mere speed difference from PC to Mac indicates that the VB implemenation sucks the big on on OS X - one of the reasons future versions of Office will indeed remove the VB side of things.

Unfortunately I cannot devote much time to helping you guys out at this stage since I have a little one on the way - due this week.

 

[hong]

Time to fire up Boot Camp, dvvega!