I'm baaack... (no, really)

[SaiZai]

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[Ranger REG]

If you can work with Fluid developers (they now have their own message boards) you can try to adapt your Palm program to work with e-Tools.

www.fluidnet.com

 

[Leopold]

why not go for PocketPC? I could use the adaptation there allot more than on the Palm. The palm is nice but the PocketPC is more powerful, in color, and more useful...


just a thought.

 

[Ranger REG]

Because there are more Palm users than there are WinCE users, which is quite a contrast since PC users (using Windows) outnumbers Mac users.

 

[Aahz]

I personally would love to see you finish your work Sai.

What I would like to see in a palm based 3e app is something simple, pleasing to look at, can handel storing a complex character and do some of the minor calculations.

In essence, I would like to see a palm app for 3e like AD&D Assistant was for 2e. If your unfamiliar with AD&D Assistant, please check this link: http://www.twinfeats.com/twinfeats/Pilot/Assistant/assistant.html

Christopher J. Bono

 

[dreadnought]

Good to hear you're back at it, Sai!
Personally, I'd just like a decent character generator that supports prestige classes. As long as stat and skill bonuses are automatic, I don't care how much I have to input manually. Would just love to be able to use my Palm as my main character "sheet."
Cheers,
dread

 

[Plane Sailing]

Glad things are getting better for you.

My recommendation is to write something that does an excellent job *for you*. Seriously, some of the best programs that I've used are ones that were written by a motivated programmer who wanted something that wasn't available by any other means

If I were you I'd go for a static design with a static back-end, because it is easier to make, and good right now is better than excellent sometime never !

The kind of features which I would find useful:

A character sheet, which has at-a-glance access to attributes, saves, attacks, AC, hp etc, and gives access to equipment, notes, skills, feats, spells, etc via additional pages.

Keeps permanent and temporary values for attributes and any modification to the temporary values is reflected in all bonuses.

It doesn't have to be a generator (separate app for that!), but it would be great if it could import/export data to a memopad record (to make it easier to create information offline if needed).

How are those for starter suggestions?

Cheers

 

[SaiZai]

Glad things are getting better for you.

Since I posted that, my CPU, motherboard, and power supply all got toasted. Stupid ty power messiing everything else up... ah well; another (hopefully temporary) setback.

I'm starting to think the gods disapprove...

My recommendation is to write something that does an excellent job *for you*. Seriously, some of the best programs that I've used are ones that were written by a motivated programmer who wanted something that wasn't available by any other means

I fully agree... except I know myself well enough to realize that I'd want perfection. Which is why top-down design keeps catching me up; I keep wanting to make improvements. I'm probably the worst (in customer service terms) customer I'll ever have. Thus, I try to get some perspective on what Really Matters by polling y'all.

If I were you I'd go for a static design with a static back-end, because it is easier to make, and good right now is better than excellent sometime never !

Like I said: it's hard to restrain myself.

A character sheet, which has at-a-glance access to attributes, saves, attacks, AC, hp etc, and gives access to equipment, notes, skills, feats, spells, etc via additional pages.

Keeps permanent and temporary values for attributes and any modification to the temporary values is reflected in all bonuses.

It doesn't have to be a generator (separate app for that!), but it would be great if it could import/export data to a memopad record (to make it easier to create information offline if needed).

What about the more complicated stuff - like cascading attributes, items with stat mods (including that +1 to atk/dam), "equipping", "sane" equipping (disallowing more than one two-handed item, etc.), "official" leveling (vs. "edit this stat"), feats, skills, etc. And (since I won't ever be able to keep track of all feats extant) "custom" fields for all of the above? And... and... and... [voice fades into drone]



- Sai

 

[Drinkingsoda]

I would love to see a good palm app. Features you could use.
1. character sheet. one where all your bonuses are added together automatically.
2. Ability to add data in the pc and then to the palm via hotlink. This is were the other palm app 3e stuff falls short. there is only one or two but neither of them allows for this.
3. Easy to use database with all the rules in it. Things like cover bonuses, skill dc checks, etc...
4. monster stats like the character sheet. could be inputed by the user through the computer but would help dm's when using wandering monster tables and such.
5. calculaters like jump distance and magic item creation costs.

 

[SaiZai]

I would love to see a good palm app. Features you could use.
1. character sheet. one where all your bonuses are added together automatically.

What bonuses, specifically? Give a couple examples.

2. Ability to add data in the pc and then to the palm via hotlink. This is were the other palm app 3e stuff falls short. there is only one or two but neither of them allows for this.

There's a couple ways to do this. The simplest would be to have a fill-in-the-blanks form that you then add as a memopad entry. More complicated would be importing from other programs' files, having a Windows GUI for data entry, etc. What do you want?

3. Easy to use database with all the rules in it. Things like cover bonuses, skill dc checks, etc...

Just for viewing / lookup, or for actual programmatic use?

4. monster stats like the character sheet. could be inputed by the user through the computer but would help dm's when using wandering monster tables and such.

As in "monster" character entries next to regular PCs? Auto-generated / temporary, or more NPC-style?

5. calculaters like jump distance and magic item creation costs,

'kay.

- Sai