I had a plan this month, v13 stable would be done at the end and posted online, no matter what. Except, I didn’t count on somebody exposing a tough bug on the second to last day. As this bug has to do with the Class Feature Variants, which were recently announced to become official content, I didn’t want to publish something without having some time to let it be tested.
If the next week doesn’t see another compromising bug, I can guarantee you that v13 stable will be released by c...
2020-08-31 20:43:30 +0000 UTC
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I'm back I mean, not the character sheet, that never left. Nothing news to report (yet), just checking in to let you know my work on the sheet is continuing!
I moved into my new house and although we have a working kitchen, living room, and bathroom, the rest of the house is not really liveable yet. But I do now have internet access and a place to sit, so I can work on the character sheet again!
First thing first, I'm going to work through all the messages, bug reports, and sugges...
2020-08-04 16:10:35 +0000 UTC
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I have decided to take a short break from Patreon and paused my page for the coming month. Current subscribers will not be charged for the July-cycle.
The idea of pausing a Patreon page is explained here in Patreon's help center in short and here in more detail (from the creator's side...
2020-06-29 13:43:50 +0000 UTC
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Another new beta, no stable v13, and all of that after a month of no communication at all. I'm definitely crushing this community building and keeping you all in the loop.
Sarcasm aside, I have been hard at work at getting v13 stable, with many small bug fixes along the way, but there is still more to do. So please use this latest beta and report any issues while I continue testing and improving stuff on my end.
The cover image for this post is regarding the most visible change in...
2020-06-04 15:10:41 +0000 UTC
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A new beta version and another step closer to a stable version of v13!
I haven’t posted or replied much during the previous couple of weeks because there were some more pressing things to deal with on a personal level. But that is all sorted and this last week I have been playing catch up. I finally managed to work through all the messages, posts, and comments. Thus, it is time for a new beta!
As promised, no new content, but bug fixes and changes required for m...
2020-04-18 19:34:45 +0000 UTC
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As the bug reports for beta27 keep pouring in, it is time for an update to work towards a stable v13. No new content or features this time, just fixing some problems that made beta27 difficult to work with.
Beta27 has an issue with showing the correct number of spell slots when you change the level of a spellcasting class. This issue is fixed in beta28, but please take note that if you import your character from beta27 to beta28, the amount of spell slots will be imported as well. You w...
2020-03-12 13:55:37 +0000 UTC
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Those of you who have access to the shared folder on Dropbox or Google Drive might already have noticed, a new beta is upon us!
This one fixes the mess that was v13.0.0beta26 and adds the Unearthed Arcana 2020: Subclasses, Part 3.
I waited this long to post the beta because I was busy with another often-requested project, which I can happily announce is finished: the import script for the Blood Hunter class by Matthew Mercer, version 2020. A big t...
2020-03-03 13:20:41 +0000 UTC
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If you have tried using v13.0.0beta26, you couldn't have missed it: error messages no matter what you try to do. Even after I fixed a tiny, but crucial mistake minutes after uploading it. That is right, beta26 is not working and it is all my fault, hooray!
A lot of people have reported on these error messages, either by commenting here, emailing me directly, posting on Discord, or posting on Reddit. I have not responded to most of these, because the answer is the same f...
2020-02-25 16:22:19 +0000 UTC
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1 hour after posting this I realised there is a tiny mistake in the uploaded v13.0.0beta26, causing none of the classes to get their spellcasting options. That has now been fixed in the PDFs available on Patreon, Google Drive, and Dropbox. No new version number, as there are enough of those already ;)
Apologies for the spam in your inbox, I just want everybody who already downloaded ...
2020-02-22 13:39:32 +0000 UTC
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As some of you might have noticed, I connected my Patreon to my Discord server yesterday. Once I had linked them, the Patreon bot immediately began adding all of you to the channel (if you had your Patreon and Discord linked). This was rather unexpected for me as well, so my apologies for forcing this channel on you!
All subscribers to this Patreon who have their Discord linked will get a special Discord reward: being able to vote on feature suggestions...
2020-01-22 16:58:04 +0000 UTC
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Another Unearthed Arcana article release, another beta update. This time again with some fixes, including one that I have received a lot of complains about. If you import your character from an older sheet (without UA:CFV) and afterwards include the UA: Class Feature Variants source, the sheet will now immediately show the “Choose Feature” button on the second page. Before, you’d have to first change the character’s level to get this button to appear, which was confusing, I agree. Now...
2020-01-21 15:09:13 +0000 UTC
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Happy new year everyone!
(That is still normal to say after 10 days, right? It is in the Netherlands, at least.)
This is a small update. It doesn't bring a lot of changes, just some new content (Unearthed Arcana: Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard - the psionic stuff) and some minor bugfixes. Getting the sheet to work well with spells and psionics (UA: The Mystic Class) by the same ...
2020-01-10 21:04:40 +0000 UTC
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As promised, a new beta with all the player content from Eberron: Rising from the Last War.
What I expected to be the end of last week has become the end of this week. I got a bit stuck on some artificer features that were not at all compatible with the sheet's functionality. Most importantly, the ability to add a damage die to spells. I ended up rewriting the function that does the damage addition to spells so that it supports adding a fixed number, an ability score mo...
2019-12-20 11:42:12 +0000 UTC
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After your incredible outpouring of support and comments, an update felt necessary to clear up some things.
First off, thank you all for your kind words, support, and understanding. Some good news about me, after the weekend all my flu symptoms are now fully gone. Thus, I’m back at doing things like thinking about new features for the sheet, answering questions/comments, and eating less-than-healthy, as it ...
2019-12-06 11:52:26 +0000 UTC
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I hoped to make this beta available for all of you a week earlier, but I had a flight to catch and no time left to finish the final touches and testing before I left to visit family abroad. Contrary to all planning, but very much in line with expectations, I was unable to complete the remaining code abroad. But now that I'm back home I can finally present you with a new beta!
The latest Unearthed Arcana: Class Feature Variants has introduced some new concepts that the s...
2019-11-18 15:55:36 +0000 UTC
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Yes! Time for another beta. This time with some minor fixes, a new Unearthed Arcana, and a new feature!
Wait, what? Why a new feature, isn't that something to do after this is out of beta? Normally I would agree with you, but this feature was needed for a new campaign I'm playing in and what can I say... I am abusing my position to spend a day implementing a new feature instead of working on other stuff. I am sure most of you don't mind and some of you might even get so...
2019-10-30 19:03:50 +0000 UTC
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Another beta update. This time not because of many changes, but because the latest Unearthed Arcana introduces something new– unlimited range Darkvision. The sheets were not ready for that…. But now they are!
On top of that, I went over the code to make sure that it wouldn’t cause older versions of Adobe Acrobat to crash. This doesn’t mean that you can use older versions of Adobe Acrobat with all the functions in the sheet, but at least now you won’t have to restart Acrobat on...
2019-10-16 14:19:32 +0000 UTC
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It has been almost two months since the last update and it is high time for a new version with fixes. This beta introduces some content from recent WotC releases, including the Unearthed Arcana articles with a new subclass for the barbarian, monk, sorcerer, warlock, bard, and paladin, the sidekick rules from the D&D Essentials Kit, and the magic items from Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus.
Note that I didn’t incorporate the sidekick rules from the Unearthed Arcana article, be...
2019-09-24 10:59:43 +0000 UTC
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After a very lovely holiday in British Columbia, Canada, it is time to get back to business and update you all on the progress of the character sheet. This new beta version is again a small change since the last, this time fixing the magic item imports. I know, I know, I promised this the last two times, but this time it should really work as expected!
Other than those bug fixes, this beta introduces the content from the latest WotC source book: Acquisitions Incorporated
2019-07-26 15:56:17 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody,
This is your timely update with the announcement that v13 is finally ... in the next phase and certainly not done yet. Sorry to subvert expectations, but I guess you are all used to this by now.
In about 12 hours I'm flying to Canada for a holiday of two and half weeks. During this time I will have very limited access to the internet (just a phone, but I don't expect to have a lot of opportunity to go on the internet), so please be aw...
2019-06-19 21:06:37 +0000 UTC
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Another beta and still no stable release? I guess you are used to this by now, but I still feel like I should explain. v13.0.0beta16 did still have some bugs in it that needed to be addressed. Most of these were related to importing from another v13 beta sheet, which was something that wasn't really tested before because of the import restrictions.
Other than those bug fixes, this beta introduces the content from the latest WotC adventure book: Ghosts of Saltmarsh.
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2019-05-31 12:46:27 +0000 UTC
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I know I hinted that the next version should be the finished v13, but I hadn’t taken into account that there would be an Unearthed Arcana article that would demand a new feature, being able to round up the spellcasting factor when multiclassing. You can consider this beta16 to be the Artificer 2019 v2 update.
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2019-05-19 12:52:31 +0000 UTC
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After working on very little else than transcribing magic items for the last six days and, really, every day that I had time to do so for the last six weeks, I am happy to announce that all magic items are now done! That is right, all official 5e published magic items are available in the sheet, see this Google Sheet for an overview. I did exclude all artifacts and ...
2019-05-06 16:56:48 +0000 UTC
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One month after releasing the previous beta, it is finally time for the next. So I present you with the 14th beta for the thirteenth version of the sheet. This beta doesn’t introduce many changes, mainly fixes, but it does come jam-packed with magic items!
Please try many magic items and report back if any of them don't work as expected.
>> Find v13.0.0beta14 here <<
2019-04-16 15:48:35 +0000 UTC
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I haven't posted anything in a while as I'm busy working on the next beta for the sheet. While that is chugging along, I figured it is time to post a quick update.
I'm happy to see that beta13 has minimal bug reports. This means there is finally a stable version with all the big underlying changes that I have been making. Because of the limited bugs, I have been able to focus on getting all the magic items transcribed for use with the sheet. But oh boy are there many of them. I'm gratef...
2019-04-03 15:54:32 +0000 UTC
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With all the big changes beta12 made, it was unavoidable that it would still have some bugs in it. Unfortunately, those bugs were pretty obvious and I clearly should have caught them in my own testing. But I didn’t, so here is the next beta that fixes the blatant issues with the previous one.
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It has been a long wait for this next beta to be finished and I apologize. While busy transcribing more and more magic items I find the sheet needing more and more ways to handle all the features they give. I even ended up rewriting some very old code that I hadn’t touched since a long time, the very first things I automated on the sheet: the conditions! Not a very important part, nor something that took a long time to do, but something I wanted to share. It was, in a way, a sentimental thi...
2019-03-13 21:20:27 +0000 UTC
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Some of you might already have noticed the new beta being uploaded to the beta download post or Dropbox/Google Drive yesterday. I couldn’t find the time to make a post about it yesterday, but I figured that uploading the new beta would be more welcome than writing about it.
v13.0.0beta11 introduces a bunch of new features for the magic items to take advantage off and, as a result, making it easier for classes, races, backgrounds, and feats to be implemented and affect more parts of th...
2019-02-07 22:42:33 +0000 UTC
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Apologies for the previous e-mail blast, a miss-click on the Patreon webpage caused a draft of this post to be published. My bad!
First off I want to thank everybody for their patience with getting magic item support added and a special thanks for everyone that has helped transcribing the magic items.This beta does not yet include many magic items, only those that are completely done and vetted. With the help of the community, a lot of missing features were identified, things that no cl...
2019-01-23 11:06:31 +0000 UTC
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I haven’t had a chance to say, even though it has already been 2019 for more than a week...
Happy New Year Everybody!
Now that’s out of the way, I present you with the next beta, v13.0.0beta9. This beta introduces nothing new, but fixes the numerous issues that were present with beta8.
I haven’t actually spent that much time working on this new beta, as I have mostly been spending my time with writing up the syntax for magic items and all ‘common attribu...
2019-01-11 16:53:43 +0000 UTC
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