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Foundry Character Builder: Alpha Testing

Pictured: the tool in action (restricted to a PR-friendly content set, of course!)

The first version of a much-sought-after addition to a certain tool is now available to any Patrons brave enough to give it a try. A li...

Actual Content

As a break from our usual scheduled programming of complete radio silence, today I present to you a little bonus content. A PVP arena one-shot map and module for Foundry VTT!

This is a yearly event I try to do for my players (e...

November has Come

Figure it's been enough of a wait since my last post, so I'll let y'all cool subscribers in on some of what's going on behind the scenes at Tools, Inc. 

I hope that those of you that are interested in changes to the site/Plutonium keep up-to-date via the #changelogs channel in our Discord server, but either way, th...

still_alive.mp3

[EDIT] As of 24/05/2020, Plutonium is free. For the moment, you can find it in the "#announcements" channel of our Discord, and it will eventually be available via the "get." page.

Long time no see.

As the Foundry hype train continues to pick up steam on its way to "full release" station, I though...

A Man on the Run

TL;DR: unimportant ramblings.

As an aside and an apology, this post is long overdue, but I've lazy and/or unwilling to kick the hornets nest.

The reason for the drop in activity here on Patreon, is that Hasbro's goons kicked down my front door, shot my dog, and ran off with a half-ounce of oregano from my...

Group Up and Go

TL;DR: watch the gif.

So the mystery feature I alluded to in last week's post ate most of my coding time this weekend, as the solution I thought I had turned out to be awful and unmaintainable and I had to rewrite everything. It happens.

This feature, though, is a "grouping/tagging" system, whereby you ca...

Lods of Emone

(Title reference)

So while I did a lot more playing of D&D than writing software for it this past week/end, I did get a small demo-friendly component* of the character sheet (mostly) done; gifs below**.&nbs...

Eat Sleep Code Repeat

TL;DR: Small Plutonium update; 5etools is now faster; diary = empty, so we're getting back on the character sheet grind.*

Another week gone, and what a week it has been.

In Foundry news, a small update; Plutonium v0.0.3e. This includes:

• The "import" button should now be available on any sheet,...
  2019-09-29 22:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post

A Coat of Red Paint

So we come to the end of another weekend. Mine was relatively distraction-free, and so I was able to spend a good amount of it deep in the lab--and after I was finished sodomizing my dog, I got plenty work done besides. 

Firstly, a minor-though-critical update to Plutonium, v0.0.3d, which includes:

• Fres...
  2019-09-22 23:11:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Your Wires Are Showing

...and here's Plutonium v0.0.3c, containing:

• A fix for AC sources being a mess of HTML on non-default sheets
• A fix for all the strange numbers appearing down the right-hand-side of import lists
• A fix for the CR Scaler dialogue being a funny size sometimes

Do keep the issue reports com...

More Than 99 Problems

<Obligatory lich pun> <Skip to paragraph 4 for the start of actual content>

So we've cracked 100 patrons, which is both humbling and unexpected. Big thanks to you all; without your valuable patronage, my bank account would contain less money. 

But on a less shit-eating note, I've never be...

Prune > Dates

Checking in with another status report, here's Plutonium v0.0.3a for all you cool Foundry people out there. This update includes:

• A folder picker UI in the importer, including a (limited) range of "dynamic" options, i.e. if you select "Challenge Rating" in the creature importer, it'll put each creature in a folder...
  2019-09-08 23:21:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Compendium Change Concepts Confuse Concerned Citizens

A quick'n'dirty Plutonium update as my weekend has once again been monopolised by that annoying "real life" thing: version 0.0.3 comes with creatures, spells, and items pre-loaded to the compendium for your browsing pleasure. In addition, "Variant & Optional Rules" may now be imported to the journal.

The compendium ...

Foundry v0.3.5 Compatibility

The improved data validation in the latest version of Foundry breaks Plutonium's creature import, so here's update 0.0.2d which takes care of that.

Meanwhile in <removed> news, work on the character sheet progresses. As mentioned in the last update, I didn't have a whole lot of weekend available to work on it, but...

No Face, No Case

A small Plutonium update; version 0.0.2c now includes a configuration editor which contains a grand total of one (1) option, Streamer Mode. Here are the effects:

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While currently not much to look at, the config editor is built in such a way that it's trivially easy to add more options down the...

That Awkward Moment When You Both Try to Go Through the Door at the Same Time

So as it turns out, Foundry has a problem* with doing many things at the same time (specifically, concurrent entity creation triggered by client events). In the case of Plutonium, this manifests as items/spells/etc. swapping their descriptions, becoming un-deletable, and all kinds of other fun things if you import to...

Slightly Higher-Grade Plutonium

A small update, because there's already been plenty of feedback on the module--critically, that getting the thing to load involves arcane rituals and prayer to the dark gods. 

Thanks to the sleuthing efforts of the fine folks in the #plutonium-issues channel on Discord, the probable source of this issue ha...

Addendum: Demo Reel & Instructions

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An important part of writing posts at 1am is forgetting to include the stuff you set out to include in the first place, like demo gifs and READMEs. 

See pics related for an idea of what the module offers; you can import homebrew creatures, spells, feats, and items to the actor/item coll...

Patron Rewards, Round One

With the first round of payments all settled, I now feel obligated to make your subscriptions to this humble Patreon at least somewhat worthwhile.

So, first things first, hope you like Foundry VTT, because here's "v0.0.2 Alpha" of my ques...