MrPrimate

July 2024 Development Update

Added 2024-07-02 21:31:46 +0000 UTC

Hello Adventurers,

This month has been a whopper, Where Evil Lives took up a bunch of time, both fixing monster parsing and mapping the adventure. If you're on the fence about the MCDM stuff, it's wonderful breath of fresh air from the dozen or so monsters that are in every official adventure!

A new feature for those of you not running a full automation suite, is simple macros. These are macros added to things like spell descriptions. The initial pack includes Lay On Hands, Arcane Recovery, Spell Refueling Ring infusion, Sacred Weapon, and Font of Magic.

A number of small improvements were made for Pathmunch, Tokenizer, Note Licker, and Active Auras. Additionally, a number of background improvements were made around the image proxy to improve reliability. I spent a fair amount of time trying to make some tutorial video content for Tokenizer, but am undecided if to release it or not - it's not the best quality material.

In the last week or so we have started to see previews of the changes in the 2024 addition of D&D. It's become clear that quite a lot is changing. Although it remains to be seen, I suspect automation may be in quite a state for some time following the release for the 2024 content. At the moment however it's just a whole bunch of unknowns.

This month is going to be more sedate. Infinite Staircase is being released, and a number of background improvements are taking place.

Thank you for your continued support

Jack/MrPrimate

Condensed Changelog

Pathmuncher

Some small tweaks to handle higher level dual gate kineticists correctly.
Awakened animals would not parse.
Support v12 6.0.3.
Some choices would attempt to load an item as a UUID when it was not valid.
If Starfinder field test module is active, search compendiums for matches. To support json export facility in Hephaistos 2E (https://sf2e.hephaistos.online/). (Starmuncher?)
Fix missing skills in import in v12.

DDB Importer

Some characters with duplicate spells would fail to import.
Some characters with duplicate infusions would fail to import.
Armour infusions would not add the AC bonus correctly.
Some midiqol damage on save effects were not set correctly where the save damage was in the other field.
Some monster parsing would fail
Some rogue subclasses would fail to import.
Reduce some false positive summons parsing errors.
Spiritual Weapon formula no longer worked in v12.
Eldritch Blast did not parse a valid damage value if you didn't take Agonising Blast (crazy).
Some characters with item spells would fail to import.
Some effects would fail to apply to spells, preventing character import.
Improve some magic item uses.
Improve linking of spells to items if not using Magic Items module.
Fix S3 bucket selection in v12.
Fix Extra/Companion importing.
Could not select directory path if aws bucket config was not enabled.
Flee Mortals! Villain monsters now parse Villain actions as separate actions.
Heroe's Feast duration fix.
Senses have not been set correctly on imported characters with senses granted through race features.
Race parsing will now add darkvision to a races senses.
Summons would fail to import if using custom proxy.
New "Simple Macro" feature added that exposes some DDB Macros to users via the Chat Description. This is primarily targeted at users who do not exist within the Automation/Midi-Verse. The first of the macros provided here are for Lay On Hands and Arcane Recovery.
Monks speed bonus was no longer correctly applying when DAE was not installed.
Auto generated active effects will now have the item/feature description/chat summary applied.
Spell Effect: Tidal Wave
Magic Weapon, Elemental Weapon and Shillelagh spells now use the Enchantment system to provide the effects/modifications.
Artificier parsing could fail for characters with non-ddb items on them.
Background parsing was broken since 5.2.13
In v12, folders created in adventure import would not nestle.
Small and Tiny monsters will now keep scale 1.
Simple Macros: Spell Refueling Ring infusion, and Font of Magic macro.
Some more fixes for self hosted proxy and summon importing.
Sacred Weapon is now an enchantment, and if not using Active Token Effects, a Simple Macro is provided to toggle on/off the light emission.
Add wealth dice to classes.
Fix compendium load fail.
Divine Smite improvements for midi users when targeting undead and fiends.
Fixes for using CPR Medi-Kit when dynamic sync is on.
Guardian Armor: Defensive Field healing value correction.
Improve Aside handling in books such as Where Evil Lies.
Where Evil Lives support.
Fix to linking for spells and items in adventures.
Fix for CPR failing in latest version for some items.
Dancing lights now uses the D&D Summons system to summon dancing light actors. Image kindly provided by the wonderful folks at JB2A. If you have one of the JB2A modules installed it will add a variety of lights to choose from instead of just yellow.
Grim Hollow: Player Pack, basic support and improvement of resource parsing and linking for point based abilities.