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Development Update Jan 2023
Greetings Adventurers, and a happy new year to you all!This month's visible work has focused on some quality-of-life improvements for DDB Importer, bug fixes, and Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen.DDB Importer can now select a small number of adventure scenes to import when running - I kno...
Development Update December 2022
Hello Adventures,I hope this update finds you well in the run up to Hogswatch Night. Me? What have I been up to? How nice of you to ask!Early this month was focused on Active Auras. I'm now able to contribute directly and release new fixes for Active Auras. If you're using Foundry v10, you c...
Development Update November 2022
Wild Magic Surge! This month has been focusing on improving integration with "Items with Spells DnD5e" and "5e Custom Abilities & Skills" allowing for the long-requested Custom Skills to come in from DDB, as well as an alternative to the Magic Items module.In addition, a new feature ...
Development Update October 2022
Hello Adventurers!Autumn is creeping in here in the UK, and the days are getting shorter. Last month had a big focus on Adventure Muncher, and evolving support for v10 of Foundry.If you use a lot of Effects in foundry, v10 is not quite ready - we are still waiting on a couple of modules to be fixed ...
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 ...
Beta: Foundry v10
Hello Undying and God tier!There is finally enough working parts in v10 to release a Beta for DDB Importer.What is this?There is a new version of Foundry coming out August-ish (v10). There are some fairly major changes to the scheme which has required a fairly extensive rewrite of DDB Importer.Shoul...
Development Update August 2022
Greetings Adventures,Welcome once again to this month's summary of activities. As we all know, the Kobolds work tirelessly to add new features, improve the modules, and provide essential frontline support. Let's see what their toils have bought us this month...What have the interns been up t...
Alpha: Foundry v10
Hello God tier!There is finally enough working parts in v10 to release an Alpha for DDB Importer.What is this?There is a new version of Foundry coming out August-ish (v10). There are some fairly major changes to the scheme which has required a fairly extensive rewrite of DDB Importer.Should I instal...
Development Update July 2022
Greetings Adventures,Welcome once again to this month's summary of activities. As we all know, the Kobolds work tirelessly to add new features, improve the modules, and provide essential frontline support. Let's see what their toils have bought us this month...What have the interns been up t...
Development Update June 2022
Greetings Adventures,Welcome once again to this month's summary of activities. As we all know, the Kobolds work tirelessly to add new features, improve the modules, and provide essential frontline support. Let's see what their toils have bought us this month...What have the interns been up t...
Development Update May 2022
Greetings Adventures,Welcome once again to this month’s summary of kobold activities.This month has been quieter on the releases front, but many cogs have turned behind the scenes.This month, the big news is that D&D Beyond was purchased by Wizards of the Coast. There’s no immediate impact on th...
Development Update April 2022
Greetings Adventurers!Welcome once again to this month’s summary of kobold activities.This month the Kobolds have been very busy indeed.What have the interns been up to?Last month we ran a poll to figure out what you all wanted most. More effects stood out loud and clear (see the results post here...
Poll Results
Hello Adventurers!The Poll results are in. The results are overwhelming! Over a 1000 of you voted in the end!49% Effects: continue expanding automation for more spells and class features14% Tokenizer: auto token ring - i.e. apply a token ring automatically during import.9% Support for Containers wit...
Billing Changes and Prizes!
As of a few days ago I joined the pilot program to allow billing for patrons to take place on the day they join - this has no impact on existing patrons, only for for new members. (i.e. if you join today, you will no longer be charged again on the 1st, but on the 10th every month).With this in mind ...
Spring Prioritisation Poll
Hello lovely Patreons, yes, every last one of you!Thank you for supporting me in develop this software. It's been a long time since the last poll and many of the features on it have now been implemented. I've taken a bit of time to gather my thoughts this month and think about the next thing...
Development Update March 2022
Greetings Adventurers!This is my monthly update to let you know what I've been up to.DDB Importer WebP mode. This will convert all images when loaded through muncher or characters into webp files. What is webp? It's an image storage format that makes them very small. (If you turn this on and...
Development Update Feb 2022
Greetings Adventurers!This is my monthly update to update you on what's been happening with DDB Importer and friends this month.What have I been up to?DDB ImporterSpell EffectsDDB Importer now includes numerous spell effects and macros and a mechanism for easily delivering more. These are compat...
Development Update January 2022
Greetings Adventurers!I hope the holiday season is treating you well, and I wish you all the best for 2022.What have I been up to?DDB ImporterPlenty of big changes this month. Let's have a recap:Support for enhancing 3rd party scenes with DDB DataA lot of creators make amazing maps - especially ...
Third Party Scenes
Hello Adventures!Yesterday I released a module update with an exciting new feature - the ability to place monsters and pins from Adventure Muncher onto third party scenes.What does this mean? Well a lot of creators make amazing maps - especially for those modules with less than stella art - this add...
Development Update (Dec 2021)
Greetings Adventurers!What have I been up to?DDB Importer* Support for Link Item and Resource DnD5e module https://foundryvtt.com/packages/link-item-resource-5e* A number of improvements to background importing (mostly consolidating features into a single Background feature.)* Better error handling ...
Beta: Active Updates to D&D Beyond
Hello Undying tier!The Active Update feature to sync changes back to D&D Beyond is now available in BETA.What is this?When changes are made to characters, they are synced back to D&D Beyond where possible. These are the same changes as the current character update feature. How?* You need to turn thi...
Muncher Development Update for November
Greetings Adventurers!What have I been up to?DDB Importer* Updates to support the D&D 5 v1.5 system updates* Improvements to character imports and updates to D&D Beyond* Improved support for DnD5e Helpers module* New tutorial/overview video!* A handful of minor bugs* Improvements to the backend to s...
Alpha: Active Updates to D&D Beyond
Hello God tier!This month I have been working on improving syncing changes back to D&D Beyond. Dynamically. As they happen.What is this?When changes are made to characters, they are synced back to D&D Beyond where possible. These are the same changes as the current character update feature.How?* Ins...
Development Update for October
Greetings Adventurers!TL;DRAn exciting month, a new adventure released and some new functionality.What have I been up to?DDB Importer* Artificer Infusions now import as effects and actions where possible. This is the first step towards better infusion support. It was released to Undying and God Tier...
BETA: Artificer Infusion Support!
Hello Undying and God tier!I have recently released the v2.5 version of DDB Importer that includes Artificer Infusion support. Your tiers grant you access to this ability in the beta period. It will come to everyone when I'm happy that it's stable.How can you use it?1) Update to the latest v...
Development Update for September
Greetings Adventurers!Fun Statistics!This month marked the 200th release of a DDB Importer module! Wowza! Thank you all for making this happen! So what is happening? Well, there are about 18000 character requests processed a week.Now, I don't really check these statistics very much. In fact, alm...
Encounter Muncher is Here
Hello Undying tier!I have just pushed out an update to the DDB Importer (v2.3.6) with a new feature that's in beta for Undying Tier - Encounter Muncher.This tool can quickly and easily import encounters from the D&D Beyond Encounter Builder tool as well as importing any saved state on the D&D Be...
Encounter Muncher is Here
Hello God Mode tier!I have just pushed out an update to the DDB Importer (v2.3.0) with a new feature that's in alpha for God Mode Tier - Encounter Muncher.This tool can quickly and easily import encounters from the D&D Beyond Encounter Builder tool as well as importing any saved state on the D&D...
Development Update (Aug 2021)
Greetings Adventurers!What have I been up to?• Improvements to table parsing in adventure muncher and a way to override/fix generated table names.• Scenes are now versioned, and a popup will display a list of changed scenes when you reimport and adventure.• Improved journal linking in generate...
Development Update (July 2021)
Greetings Adventurers!What have I been up to? Working out some bugs with 0.8.* versions and logging upstream issues. Adventure Muncher is now in beta for everyone! You can find it here if you've not yet checked it out. It's slowly improving and on Foundry 0.8.8 you can now import all adventu...
