Hi gang!
Hope you're all doing as well as you can be. In the next few hours, if everything goes according to plan, a new DDB Importer version will drop including an alpha release for munching in Feats, Backgrounds, and Classes & Class Features in bulk.
There will be some rapid improvements to Class Advancemen...
2025-10-14 18:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostHi Gang!
Today's update is a bit longer than usual, we will start with a bit about the modules, and then a bit of a ramble into what I've been up to.
So what's up with DDB Importer? Well, shortly the 5.1.x version of the 5e system is going to be released. This offers a bunch of new enhancements around adding advan...
2025-08-05 21:53:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
It's been a while since an update, however, things are in a good place with the importer. Character, spell, item and monster imports are now (mostly) stable.
The Character Importer and Muncher screens have had a makeover and have been updated to the new Foundry "v2" style.
2025-04-04 19:48:36 +0000 UTC
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Hello Adventurers!
Seasons greetings and a Happy New Year! I've been enjoying a slow couple of weeks, interrupted only by a somewhat intense couple of days in a hotel with a small child with Norovirus. I hope you've all been having less... exciting times.
It's been a couple of months since my last ...
Hello Adventurers!
October saw a massive number of updates to the DDB Importer to support both the 4.x version of the Foundry system and the 2024 rules.
I also had a week of family obligations this month, which somewhat slowed my progress. Although I couldn't do any development that week, I did get a brand new 2024-11-04 10:04:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Adventurers!
This month has been hectic for me. The release of the 2024 players handbook was compounded by a new version of the D&D System (V4.0.x) which has brought some wonderful changes, but has required a massive rewrite of DDB Importer.
So what state is 2024 in right now with DDB Importer?
You...
2024-10-02 20:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostSalutations Super Villains!
Today is an auspicious day. Put aside your 2024 D&D pre-release nerves, and come and look at this! Our friends at Foundry HQ have been working hard on their Ember project and I'd like to tell you a bit about it!
2024-09-03 15:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello Adventures!
Exciting times are ahead; in a few days (from the date of this post, at least), D&D Beyond will start allowing the 2024 rules to be available for those that pre-ordered.
What does this mean for DDB Importer?
The short answer is, I'm not entirely sure, but I have some thoughts.....
2024-09-02 16:37:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
This month was quite eventful for me - as previously mentioned, my wife gave birth early (both are doing well and are now back home); just as we were getting over that, my middle daughter spent some time in hospital with a chest infection and breathing difficulties. These, along with the summer ho...
Hello Adventurers,
Good news, my wife has had a baby! The Primate family has grown again!
Less good news, this is an email I was expecting to send next month. Earlier this week, my wife's waters broke a month early and required an emergency C-section. Both child and mother are now doing well but are going to be in...
2024-07-11 09:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello 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...
2024-07-02 21:31:46 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers,
What an exciting month, the release of Foundry v12 and the D&D 3.2 system have been keeping me busy this month, along with mapping out the Vecna, Eve of Ruin adventure.
Let's go over some of the highlights. v3.2 of the D&D System brings big changes, mainly around the introduction of "enc...
2024-06-02 21:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
It's been a frustrating month. There has been a bunch of work in the background towards Foundry v12, several failed experiments, bits of work that have yet to result in meaningful change, and some frustrating regressions.
That said, there have been good improvements for fans of high automation, ...
2024-05-04 10:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
This month, Adventure Muncher has been significantly revised. The latest version, 2.0.x, supports only Foundry v11 and D&D 5e v3.x.x.
This has brought a number of improvements around importing adventure journals into a reduced number with better structure, as well as providing better integra...
2024-04-03 18:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
For the last month, my labours have mainly been directed at working on compatibility with the new v3.0x series of the D&D system and various issues around it.
We had the not-quite-a-surprise release of Humblewood, which is now finished and compatible with the latest Adventure Muncher.
...
2024-03-01 20:45:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
Well, that was a surprise round and a half; for those of you who missed the news, Foundry now has an official partnership to produce premium D&D content. A new version of the 5e system, version 3.0.0, was released. It caused much chaos breaking many modules, including DDB Importer. (That is also w...
2024-02-04 20:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year Adventurers!
I wish you all the best for the coming year, and many improvements over the last. My own backend of 2023 was not ideal, my family suffered from loss on a number of fronts, and we finished the year with my mother-in-law fracturing her neck. We are looking forward to her continued re...
2024-01-02 20:14:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventures,
This month has seen The Book of Many Things and Heroes Feast adventures completed, the 5e system 2.4 released, with some very exciting (although breaking changes), the Pathfinder 2e Remaster land, and, also, I have spent a good few weeks reworking some of the feature, class and race parser to support n...
2023-12-02 16:20:44 +0000 UTC View PostWith the release of 5e 2.4 I'm going through some of the changes to bring the importer up to date. it's becoming increasingly difficult to support such a wide berth of system and Foundry versions. (And will be several days till a version that has much more native support for 2.4 changes is released).
The u...
Hello Adventurers!
I can't believe it's November already!
This month has been buuuusy. As per my previous post, I have been dealing with some family illness, although things are now looking a lot better on that front. Thank you for all the kind words you sent through after my last update. It's very touc...
2023-11-02 17:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostHi evil villains,
This is a small update to let you know I will be away from keyboard until next weekend.
This month has been a bit intense for my family, and I have been spending good chunks of it in the hospital with my wife. It's a school holiday here, so we are heading away for a few days.
Please try not...
2023-10-22 19:26:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello, you lovely goblins!
This month was mostly spent mapping the Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk, a new adventure that takes the Lost Mines of Phandelver and expands it. That was over 30 scenes!
A huge amount of "hidden" work has been going on this month to prepare the system to support ch...
2023-10-03 11:11:09 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers,
August has been a slow development month for me, it's the summer holidays here in the UK. I had a couple of weeks away with the kids, where for the first time in a long time I made an active effort to step away from development.
This month has seen a few disruptions on the proxy side. One of the...
2023-09-02 10:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventures!
I'm on holiday (vacation) with my family, so hopefully this scheduled message lands in your inbox, and the Kobold interns have not taken this opportunity to seize power.
This month has been quiet on the visible front, but several exciting changes have got our server goblins all over-excited. Ther...
2023-08-01 21:35:17 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
This month brings a host of new features, bug fixes, improved stability for v11 and a new module. This month v11 went from a "hold off" to a "you probably can" on the upgrade front.
Note Licker is a new module born out of my desire to have numbered pins in journals for things li...
2023-07-02 11:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings Adventurers!
This month has focused on preparing the modules for version 11 of Foundry. My aim is to support both v10 and v11 for some time.
v11 has now been released, but you should hold on a little bit before updating just yet!
Some of the core modules that many of the...
2023-06-02 20:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
We have just had a spring bank holiday here in the UK, and we visited the Critch Tramway Museum in Derbyshire. It's full of historic trams, and several of them run through the nearby hills. Anyway, you probably don't want to hear about that, so...
This month most of my efforts have be...
2023-05-02 20:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello Adventurers!
I've just got back from seeing the D&D Movie! It's a lot of fun and hits all the right notes for me. Lots of lovely little easter eggs, and they captured the spirit of the game very well.
This month there have been a couple of hiccups with the connections to fetch Campa...
2023-04-02 20:39:49 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings Adventurers!
Not a huge lot to say this month, my time has mostly been spent:
What's coming thi...
2023-03-01 21:53:36 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings Adventurers!
What a month, huh?
To say the D&D community has been in somewhat of a crisis this month would be no overstatement. Whilst the drama over the OGL seems resolved for now, it was undoubtedly a nerve-wracking time for many folks in the industry.
I personally believe that playing differ...
2023-02-01 18:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post
