kakaroto

Interview with The Forge

Hey everyone, long time no speak!

The last couple of years have been quite a chaotic mess, and I've sort of fallen off the face of the Earth, mostly because my life got inevitably changed and I spend most of my time now doing activism.

I do keep Beyond20 updated and made a few releases to R20Converter (I should have a new release for v13 compatibility soon!), as well as all the work I continue to do for The Forge, but I haven't posted anything on Patreon in a little while.

R...

Beyond20 v2.15.0 release!

Hi,

Time for another Beyond20 update, with many fixes and some exciting new features as well!

In this update, we’re adding support for Foundry v13, which was recently released. I know many of you have been eager to use Beyond20 with the new v13 update! Thanks to @sirrio for contributing the fix!

Another cool feature I’m excited about is the ability to lock/unlock some of the per-character settings. This fe...

Beyond20 v2.14.0 released

Note: The release has been submitted to Chrome, Firefox and Edge stores and is currently pending review. It should become available to you soon.

Hi everyone,

I’m excited about today’s release as it brings a much requested feature to Beyond20: The ability to lock certain character specific options!

Thanks to the work by @dmportella, all options which previously had “apply to ne...

R20Converter 0.14.0RC2 (Jumpgate support)

Hi everyone,

I've been promising an update to R20Converter with support for Jumpgate for the past couple of months, and I did make a release on January 26th which worked and I've received good feedback on it, however, it's only been distributed through my Discord.

I've been meaning—practically every day for the past 2 months—to finish this build and release it, however I've been unable to get to it, and I've also been unable to build it for Mac either (which was a huge time dr...

Beyond20 v2.13.1 hotfix

Note: The update was submitted to Chrome, Firefox and Edge stores and is pending review.

Hi,

We’re releasing today a hotfix release as D&D Beyond have changed their site and the HP syncing fix from last week’s release already needed to be rewritten.

This hotfix release fixes HP syncing as well as the missing description when displaying actions.

Thanks and enjoy!

Changelog

• Bugfix: Fix ...

  2025-02-19 08:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Beyond20 v2.13.0

Hi everyone,

With the release last week of the new Monster Manual 2024, we have seen the introduction of a new statblock format to the monsters! Today’s update adds support for the new 2024 monster stat blocks, as well as adds a couple of small bugfixes.

Check out the full Changelog to see all the changes added in this release.

As usual, a big thank you to 2025-02-13 06:17:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Beyond20 v2.12.0

Note: The release is available now on Chrome and Edge stores and is pending review on the Firefox store.

Hi,

We’ve had a lot of changes to the D&D Beyond website in recent weeks and a few things continue to break, requiring more fixes.

This release adds quite a few bugfixes and improvements, and adds a few interesting features as well, such as the ability to send to the VTT the images and art from source books, as well as the ability to apply exhaustio...

Beyond20 v2.11.1

Note: The release is now available on the Chrome, Firefox and Edge stores.

Happy New Year,

I hope everyone had a chance to rest and find moments of peace and reflection during the holidays.

We’re releasing today a bugfix release as character sheet changes continue on D&D Beyond and rolling actions (like unarmed strike) from character sheets were broken. This release also fixes the bug preventing Strength checks from working from within a character shee...

Beyond20 v2.11.0

Hello players!

In the last month, @dmportella has contributed a ton of new features and fixes to Beyond20, and it’s time for you to enjoy them! This release, the last release of 2024, brings support for many of the new class features introduced in the 2024 version of the rulebook as well as fixes various new issues that appeared with the character sheet in the last month as D&D Beyond continues to make chang...

Beyond20 2.10.0 released!

Hi everyone,

A couple of days ago, I released the new update to Beyond20, version 2.10.0.

It is now available on the Chrome, Firefox and Edge Stores.

Here's the release notes and changelog for this release:

Hi everyone,

It’s time for another update to Beyond20. This release fixes some of the few parsing issues that have slowly crept up during the last month, due to D&D Beyond continuously changing their character sheets, but it also has a few ne...

2024-11-20 08:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Beyond20 2.9.8

Note: The update was released on the Chrome, Firefox and Edge stores, and they are pending reviewal from the browser teams.

Update: The 2.9.7 release had a bug, so a 2.9.8 version was just released less than 12 hours later. It's been submitted to the Firefox and Edge stores, but unfortunately, on Chrome, we need the 2.9.7 version to be approved first before submitting the 2.9.8 update.

Hi again,

Another few weeks have passed and ...

Beyond20 v2.9.6

Note: this update is still pending review on the Chrome, Firefox and Edge stores. It will be available as soon as it passes review.

Hi everyone,

I’m releasing another small bugfix update to Beyond20 after recent changes to D&D Beyond website broke some functionality of the extension, more specifically, the detection of class features, feats and racial features from your characters.

This update also includes support for the Roll20 Discord Activity, ...

Beyond20 v2.9.5 release

Hi everyone,

As promised, here's the Beyond20 update which fixes the current issues with rolling on the updated D&D Beyond character sheets.

As usual, it will take some time before it becomes available on the browser's respective stores. In the past, it had taken a few hours to Chrome to finish reviewing the update, and about one week for both the Firefox and Edge stores to finish the review process and make the update available.

(UPDATE: It's now published on all...

A little update

Hello everyone!

It's been a long time since I last posted an update here.

My life has been more than chaotic lately, unfortunately, and things haven't been easy, but we're pushing through the best we can.

I wanted to address three things specifically in today's update:

Beyond20

First of all, I'm aware of issues with Beyond20 since D&D Beyond updated their website last week. There's been multiple updates as far as I'm aware, and many features ...

Beyond20 2.9.4

Hi everyone,

Yesterday, D&D Beyond updated their website slightly again, which broke rolling items and spells from the character sheet. This small update fixes that as well as a couple of other small issues.

A special thank you for those who debugged the issue, contributed fixes to Beyond20 and helped with support. I love seeing the open-source spirit within our community.

Thank you as well to my generous P...

Beyond20 v2.9.3 release

Note: As after each release, the new version has been submitted to the Chrome, Firefox and Edge stores, and it is now in their hands, pending review. It has been approved for the Chrome and Firefox stores, but still pending on the Edge store. I unfortunately have no control over the time it takes for them to review and approve the update.

Hi again,

D&D Beyond have updated their website once more on May 7th, which broke the ability to roll saving throws,...

Beyond20 v2.9.2 release

Hi everyone, long time no see!

Today, D&D Beyond has released an update to their character sheets which unfortunately broke Beyond 20 support as many things have changed behind the scenes, making it unable to parse the sheet and make rolls.

This hotfix update fixes that and restores full Beyond 20 functionality, as well as adds a few other bugfixes to the extension and some small new features (See the 2024-04-25 06:10:54 +0000 UTC View Post

R20Converter 0.13.x

Update October 9th: Releasing 0.13.2 which fixes support for some non-dnd5e systems.

Update October 21st: Releasing 0.13.3 which fixes determining if a background image should be set as a tile or not

Update May 26th 2024: This R20Converter post has been made public. Making the tool free to use by everyone and not Patreon exclusive anymore. Thank you all!

Hi everyone,

I'm releasing a new update to R20Converter. T...

Beyond20 v2.9.1

Hi again everyone!

I've just released the 2.9.1 update of Beyond20! 

This is a very small bugfix release, which is released urgently as it addresses a critical issue with Roll20.

Earlier today, Roll20 have changed something in their app's URL which causes Beyond20 to stop recognizing it, this update should fix that.

It is currently pending review in the Chrome, Firefox and Edge stores, but should be available shortly. In the meantime, if you need to use Beyond20 w...

Beyond20 v2.9.0 release

Hi Beyond20 lovers!

It's time for another update to your favorite extension! This one has been cooking for a long time, and there's many reasons for that.

As many of you doubtless know, Wizard of the Coast messed up pretty badly in January with the OGL fiasco which was a huge blow to everything that we stand for. If you haven't followed what happened, just google "OGL scandal" and you'll find plenty of information about it. Needless to say, that whole situation left a lot of sour ...

R20Converter 0.12.x

Last update: 0.12.2 on May 2nd 2023

Hi everyone!

It's been a long time since my last post, and as you can imagine, things have been pretty chaotic lately.

I'm still working on an update to Beyond20 which will hopefully bring you a cool new feature I'm excited about, and I'm neck deep in our server migrations on The Forge, as well as tying up a few of our projects (The D&D Beyond integration among them).

Today however, I'm releasing a new version of...

Finally! A DDB converter update!

Hi everyone!

It's been a while since I posted an update to my Patreon, and it's not because of a lack of updates, but it's because of a lack of time as I'm always so busy working. Also, I'm just really bad at writing update posts!

This week, we've made a big update to the D&D Beyond integration with The Forge, and I'm...

Beyond20 v2.8.0 release

Hi everyone,

It's been a long time since our last Beyond20 update, and it's a testament to how stable and 'perfect' your favorite chrome extension is! 

Ok, nothing is perfect 😁 but we've had very little activity in our issue tracker in recent months and things just seem to be working. I've been thinking a lot about the future of Beyond20, whether it's good as it is and to not change a working formula, or if it'd be worth it to expand our mission and add some new features t...

Beyond20 v2.7.0

Hi all, it’s time for a Beyond20 update!

This update is being released in a bit of a rush as today, D&D Beyond made a change to the character sheets which broke the detection of the character name, breaking HP syncing among other things.

That being said, this is not just another small bugfix release, as this release is packed with many new features, as well as many other bugfixes.

I’m super excited about one of the features that’s been brewing for a very long time,...

Celebrating The Forge's two year anniversary!

Update: If you missed the livestream, you can view it here, and the demo of the Forge Compendium Browser is definitely one of the highlights.

Hello everyone!

I hope everyone is enjoying the spring! I'm certainly glad to be done with snow for the next few months! 😁

What a busy few weeks it's bee...

Let's get rolling!

Hey everyone!

I wanted to drop by to announce that I've just pushed an update to the Beyond20 Discord bot. This isn't a release of the Beyond20 browser extension, but only the Discord bot that you can use to integrate Beyond20 with Discord (for more information, see https://beyond20.here-for-more.info/discord)

This update includes a few big changes to the way the bot functions, which should hopefu...

Beyond20 v2.6.3 release

Note: I expect the update to be available in Chrome/Firefox within the next couple of hours.

Hi everyone,

Today (April 12th), D&D Beyond updated their character sheet, which broke the parsing of the Initiative modifier. Due to that breaking change, we’re releasing yet another small bugfix update to your favorite extension.

We also fixed a couple of issues that might have affected the DDB mobile app parsing of the game log when rolling from Bey...

Beyond20 v2.6.2 release

Hi everyone,

I've barely come back from my vacation and it's been pretty busy already (I silently released R20Converter 0.11.1 a couple of days ago) and today, I've just published a new Beyond20 release in the Chrome and Firefox stores. 

The update is a small one and is meant to fix two rather annoying bugs which happened due to a change in both the D&D Beyond website and the Roll20 website. Hopefully this is the last bugfix release before I get started on the next 2.7.0 ...

R20Converter 0.11.x

Last update: 0.11.16 on February 16th 2023

Hi again everyone!

Here's the release of R20Converter that I promised earlier today. It's version 0.11.0 so it's a "major" release, though it's not all I wanted it to be. Unfortunately, I'm about to have 4 hours of sleep before I have to rush to the airport, so I couldn't finish implementing all the features I wanted to add in thi...

State of KaKaRoTo 2021

Hello everyone!

I am quite a bit late in posting this "state of KaKaRoTo", as I had planned to post it in January like I did last year, but I guess better late than never!

I want this post to be shorter than the last so people can actually read it (without first putting that on their calendar or trying to find the courage to open it), so I'll do my best to be short :)

Last ye...