Development Update September 2022

Hello Adventurers!

This month has just flown by for me! It's been the summer holidays and heat waves here in the UK. Most of my development effort this month has been focused on adding more support for v10 of Foundry, which was released yesterday.

If you've not been through a major upgrade of Foundry before, my advice is to wait a while.

You can use the Module Compatibility Checker https://foundryvtt.com/packages/mcc to check your world before upgrading.

Please back up your data before upgrading!

And finally, be prepared for at least one of your favourite modules to not be updated.

I know that for DDB Importer a good deal of testing and work still needs to go into some of the effect macros - I suspect many need changes to support v10. Some can't be tested yet due to downstream dependencies.

In addition, there has been the Spelljammer release, and a rewrite of Adventure Muncher is underway to improve performance and memory usage for large adventures.

Summary of DDB Importer Changes

• Spell Effect: Elemental Weapon
• Spell Effect:  Create Bonfire effect triggered at start and end, and save did not happen for damage on entry.
• Spell Effect: Eyebite did not work.
• Feature effects: Planar Warrior, Ancestral Protectors, Sharpshooter, Crossbow Expert, and Savage Attacker provided by @Elwin
• Feature Effects: Blessed Strikes (Cleric).
• Feature Effect Bardic Inspiration: did not work for skill bonuses.
• Shifter race (MoM) effects.
• Unarmed Strike attack generation will now respect the Show Unarmed Strike Option on the DDB character sheet.
• Read Alouds can now be sent to a chat, or you can create a player-viewable Journal with the content.
• When showing an image in a Journal using the DDB hover-over option, you can now choose to create a player journal for this image instead of just showing it.
• BREAKING CHANGE: UPDATE TO D&D BEYOND - there is a chance that some custom items may no longer update correctly to D&D Beyond. If an error UI message pops up, ensure that the items on DDB reflect your character in Foundry and reimport. @Ref Lansky
• Some actors could choke during import if using Item Containers/Collections module.
• Unarmed Strikes no longer showed up. The "Show Unarmed Strike" option was removed from the DDB character sheet resulting in a break here.
• Support for Spelljammer Adventures in Space: fixes vehicle and item import.
• Some optional class features would not parse in as features.
• v10 Support. Please note, that most effect macros have not been fully tested.

Summary of DDB Adventure Muncher Changes

• Foundry v10 Adventure Generation mode for new style combined Journals. Pins and Handouts are still generated separately.
• Some improvements to linking in documents.
• Tokens will always be generated for scenes, ddb-importer removes dead tokens from scenes if it can't find links.
• Option to reduce the number of handouts generated. This is useful in the latest version if DDB Importer to reduce the number of journal entries, as handouts can now be generated for players by hovering over images and read aloud sections. There is a slim chance that some of these handouts have been used for Map Notes/Pins. Images/maps marked as Player versions will always be generated as handouts.
• Option to prevent the generation of player map handouts.
• Some adventures would choke on table generation.
• Some tables would create an upper range value can be 0, which I no longer supported in v10.
• Improve logging around note generation failure.
• Mad Mage stopped generating.
• Support for Spelljammer Adventures in Space.
• SDW: Small fixes for @dinnydorf#6300 on Deadknight-Dreadnaught and Iniarv's Tower
• VrgtR did not generate pins in v0.7.*

What are the kobolds planning for this month?

The main goals for September are to finish refactoring Adventure Muncher to improve performance for large adventures and to fix the bugs that will arise for v10 support.

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Many thanks for your support

MrPrimate/Jack