- The scene description shows during a battle only between rounds (while
the first in the order is on turn), and always before and after it
- Combatant details start closed in a battle: the spotlight has whoever is
on turn, or on a narrow screen their own card opens
- While a battle is under way, Add to the scene, Experience and Rewards
fold to their titles
- Button labels wrap inside their buttons instead of spilling out
- Sticky turn order and side column follow the measured top bar height
- Phone: quick stats no longer sits on Log out, incoming rolls clear the
bottom bar, the damage bar no longer scrolls on its own
- Docs updated; all packages at version 1.32.0
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- Free roam no longer adds the whole party: the DM adds who is there
- A spell with no slot of its level or higher left cannot be declared; it
takes the lowest slot left at or above its level. Cantrips take none
- In a battle in progress a player changes the weapon in hand only as the
battle begins or on their own turn after their attack has landed
- Spells are listed cantrips first, then by level, with the level shown
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- Free roam: a third kind of encounter. The DM ticks the nearby locations,
the whole party is in it from the start, and each player sends their own
character to a place
- A place shows who is found there and what is for sale; a character shops
(a place's own shop, or an NPC's wares and exchange) only where they stand
- Locations can have a shop of their own; an NPC can be "found at" a location
- Completed encounters are hidden from the campaign's list until "Show
completed" is ticked; moving an encounter works on the list as shown
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- Turn-order track: names coloured by PC, NPC or monster, this round, a flag
where it ends, and the next round
- Target by clicking a name on the track, the card, or keys 1-9; whoever is
on turn and every target show what they have in hand
- Attacks and spells are declared, rolled and applied: type or roll the d20
and the app says hit, miss or critical; a save spell asks each target for
its save against the caster's DC; the DM overrules anything and applies
- Critical damage by the campaign's rule; a spell spends its slot; a
concentration save is called for
- Auto-rolled monster and NPC attacks: aimed (weighted), rolled, and offered
to the DM to accept, edit or discard; hidden from players until accepted
- Monsters can have named attacks and multiattacks; spells say how they land
- A "What now" line tells the DM (and each player) what the scene waits on
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Seven steps in one commit, 1.15.0 to 1.21.0. They change the same files
and were not saved apart, so they go in together.
- The battle at a glance (1.15). A strip across the top of an encounter
lists everyone in turn order and stays in view; a click goes to that
card. On a wide screen the stat block of whoever is on turn stays
beside the cards, and Pin keeps anyone else's there. Saving throws,
every skill and passive Perception, Investigation and Insight are on
encounter cards and in the character panel, which "Sheet" on a card
and a button on the party overview open. For the DM, N is Next Turn
and S opens the sheet of whoever is on turn. The party overview shows
passive scores and spell save DC.
- Subclasses (1.16). Three per class, picked in the level-up checklist
at level 2 (cleric, druid, wizard) or 3, shown beside the class
everywhere, and changed by the DM from the sheet: the old one's lines
come out of Special Abilities and the new one's go in. Characters
already at that level keep the path they were on.
- Character state (1.17). Inspiration, exhaustion and conditions on the
sheet and in the panel, and counters for what a class does a set
number of times (Rage, Ki, Channel Divinity...), which the player
spends and a rest gives back. A long rest takes a level of exhaustion
off. A character's conditions are their own now: they stay from one
encounter to the next.
- Faster battles (1.18). Up to 20 of a monster added at once, numbered.
One button rolls initiative for the monsters and NPCs. A condition can
be given a number of rounds and then comes off by itself. Hovering
over a condition shows its rule, and damaging someone who is
Concentrating shows the save to call for.
- Rolls from the sheet (1.19). A number with a dotted underline rolls
when clicked, with its bonus: skills, saves, ability checks, attacks,
damage, spell dice, and a monster's attack, damage and abilities. The
dice roller has advantage and disadvantage. "Call for a roll" rolls
one check or save for the whole party. Rolls stay in the browser.
- XP and difficulty (1.20). An encounter shows the DM how hard it is,
Trivial to Deadly, from the monsters' challenge ratings against the
characters in it, and what it is worth in XP; one button shares that
out, once. The sheet and the party overview show XP and when a level
is due. Levelling up stays the DM's decision.
- Subclasses are optional per campaign (1.21). With "Characters choose a
subclass" unticked in the campaign's Settings nobody is asked, each
class follows its first subclass, and none is named.
- Conditions, exhaustion, counters and subclass features are reminders
for the table: none of them changes a number on the sheet.
- The docs cover all of it, with generated tables of what each subclass
adds.
- New migrations: a character's subclass; inspiration, exhaustion,
conditions and spent counters on a character; the rounds left on a
combatant's conditions; the XP awarded for an encounter; the
campaign's subclass setting.
- All packages at version 1.21.0.
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- A new encounter, battle or quest, goes to the bottom of the
campaign's encounter list. It used to go to the top.
- A menu beside the name when adding one says where it goes instead:
at the bottom, at the top, or straight after any encounter on the
list. Top or bottom is remembered per browser.
- All packages at version 1.14.1.
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- The campaign page shows one part at a time, picked from a row of
buttons under its name: Overview (characters and encounters), NPCs,
Locations, Weapons, Items, Spells, Monsters, Notes and Settings for
the DM; Overview, Places and Notes for a player. Each button counts
what is in its part. On a phone the row scrolls sideways. The part
showing is in the address (?view=weapons), so the back button steps
through the parts.
- NPCs, weapons, items, spells and monsters are lists of short rows.
Clicking a row opens a pop-out with everything about it and
everything that can be changed. Adding one, by hand or from the
library, is a pop-out too: a window on a wide screen, the whole
screen on a phone.
- "Search this campaign" looks through everything added to the
campaign at once: characters, encounters, locations and notes, and
for the DM also NPCs, weapons, items, spells and monsters. Each of
the DM's lists has a search box of its own as well.
- With three pages or more, the page number of a paged list is a menu
to jump straight to any page.
- The invite code, the party and archive or delete are under Settings.
- A weapon's properties and range, and a spell's casting time, range
and duration, are shown in its pop-out.
- All packages at version 1.13.0.
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- Weapons and items can carry effects: bonuses and penalties to AC, speed,
initiative, max HP, passive Perception, ability scores, saving throws
and skills, plus a note. They apply on their own while equipped and stop
when the thing comes off. Armor is an item with an AC effect. The DM
sets them with "Effects" on a row in the weapon or item pool.
- The sheet's "armor bonus" is now "Extra AC", the DM's own adjustment on
top of gear, and only the DM can set it.
- Only what is equipped counts: a weapon has to be equipped to be used in
an encounter. A character can have two things equipped at once, one of
them a weapon (campaign settings). Equipping at the limit is refused
with a message, and can be changed at any time, mid-encounter included.
- A built-in item library: armor, shields, worn gear and supplies, with
their effects set. The weapon library gains paired weapons (a pair of
daggers is one weapon).
- A floating character button on every page opens a panel with a
character's numbers and everything they hold, with equip ticks. Players
get their own characters, the DM everyone's, and each character card in
an encounter has an Inventory button. It replaces the quick stats drawer.
- A player's own characters stand out: marked and highlighted in
encounters, with a button that jumps to their card; highlighted on the
party screen; and listed once, not twice, on the campaign page.
- All packages at version 1.11.0.
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- The main destinations are always on screen: Campaigns, Campaign and
Party (for the campaign last visited, from any page) and Account. They
are links along the top bar on a wide screen, and a bar along the
bottom on a phone or small tablet (900px or less).
- Nothing floats over the page on a phone: the dice roller is the last
button of the bottom bar, and quick stats sits in the top bar.
- The campaign page and the character sheet start with a row of links to
their sections.
- On a small screen every table is a stack of labelled cards, rows of
controls wrap, fields shrink to fit, and things to tap are bigger.
- The encounter list is paged, ten to a page, as is the archived list.
Moving an encounter still works across pages.
- Text boxes with no type given, and native checkboxes and dropdowns, now
match the dark theme. Long monster notes and item descriptions wrap
inside their table cell.
- All packages at version 1.10.1.
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- An NPC can change gold and cash at a rate of their own ("2 gold = $15"),
the same both ways. Only gold and cash are taken: no silver, no copper
and no change, and the amount has to be a whole multiple of the rate.
- An NPC can sell weapons and items from the campaign pools, each with a
price in any coin or in cash, a level and an optional stock. The wares
follow the NPC into every quest. An encounter can sell things itself
too, for a stall with nobody behind it.
- Trading is open only in an NPC quest in progress, never in a battle,
with an NPC who is in the scene and standing, for a character who is in
it. Players see every rate and ware and trade for their own character
in a new Trade card; the DM can trade for anyone.
- Only the DM sets trade up: "Trade" on an NPC's row on the campaign page,
and the DM's part of the Trade card for an encounter's own wares. A
ware's price and stock can be edited afterwards.
- Every exchange and purchase is written to the character's money log.
- All packages at version 1.10.0.
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- "+ Add Monster" takes the whole stat block: challenge rating, speed, the
six ability scores, special trait and notes, as well as name, AC, HP,
attack and damage. Damage can name its type ("1d6+2 necrotic").
- Monsters can be edited: "Edit" on a row opens the same form filled in.
Copies already in encounters show the new stat block.
- The monster list shows each full stat block, the library picker shows
speed and ability scores too, and removing a monster asks first.
- Characters have a fourth balance, cash ($), for crossover worlds. It is
gained, spent, given and awarded like a coin, but it has no worth in
coins: it is never exchanged or used to make change.
- `npm test` in the backend runs again (the script pointed at a jest path
that does not exist in the workspace).
- All packages at version 1.9.0.
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- In a battle in progress, whoever is on turn is at the top of the list
with those still to act beneath them. Each combatant whose turn has
passed drops to a "Next Round" section at the bottom, and a new round
puts everyone back.
- All packages at version 1.8.1.
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- A dead character, or a monster or NPC at 0 HP, is out of the fight: the
server no longer sends it to players, target marks included, and it has
no turn. Healing or reviving brings it straight back.
- The DM's screen leaves the fallen out too until "Show dead" is ticked,
which lists them in a group of their own, marked hidden.
- Players see dead characters by name in a Fallen box. The player whose
character is on turn in a battle gets "Try revive" there if that
character is on their feet and knows a spell that revives, at a level
they can cast. The dead come back at 1 HP.
- Spells have a "Revives" tick in the campaign's spell list. Revivify and
Raise Dead have it, in the library and in existing campaigns.
- A dead character cannot be added to an encounter until revived.
- All packages at version 1.8.0.
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- In a battle under way, whoever is on turn has no Target button on their
card, and the server refuses a target list that includes them.
- All packages at version 1.7.2.
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- The amount an area attack adds to each target's AC per extra target is
now set per campaign, from 0 (no penalty) to 10. It starts at 2, so
existing campaigns behave as before.
- The DM changes it in the campaign settings; the attack bar and the
targets' cards use it.
- All packages at version 1.7.1.
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- More than one combatant can be marked as a target; the Target button now
adds to the targets instead of moving the mark.
- Several targets make an area attack, which is harder to land: every
target's AC counts as 2 higher for each target beyond the first. The
attack bar shows the AC to beat, and each target's card names the penalty.
- The DM unticks any target the roll missed, then applies one total: split
evenly between those hit (remainder to the first marked), or the full
amount to each. Each share is shown before it is applied.
- The single target column from V1.6.0 becomes a list, carried over by the
migration.
- All packages at version 1.7.0.
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- One combatant at a time can be marked as the target with the Target
button on its card. The DM can mark anyone at any time; a player can
while their own character is on turn in a battle.
- The target's card is outlined for everyone and names who is going for it.
- While a target is marked the DM gets an attack bar above the list: who is
attacking whom, the target's AC and HP, the attacker's weapons, spells or
monster attack, and a box to apply damage or healing straight away.
- The target is cleared when the turn or round moves on, when the encounter
begins, ends or is reopened, or when the target is removed.
- All packages at version 1.6.0.
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- A character at 0 HP is Dying, Stable or Dead. The tallies live on the
character, so the sheet and the encounter card always agree.
- Death saves are typed in as the d20 showed: 10 or more succeeds, less
fails, a 1 fails twice, a 20 puts the character back up at 1 HP. Three
successes make them stable; three failures kill.
- Damage taken at 0 HP is a failed save and ends stable. A blow that leaves
as much as max HP still to take after reaching 0 kills outright.
- Healing from 0 clears the tallies. The dead cannot be healed; the DM
revives them at 1 HP.
- A player rolls and stabilises for their own character; the DM for anyone,
and only the DM sets tallies by hand or revives.
- The party overview, campaign list and quick stats show the state.
- All packages at version 1.5.0.
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- Quests take initiative rolls like battles do; each quest group lists
highest first. The total is roll plus bonus and can exceed 20 (test added).
- Info tooltips are drawn against the viewport, so the party overview
table (or any scrolling container) can't cut them off.
- backend: `npm run deploy` applies migrations and regenerates the Prisma
client in one step; README explains why both are needed on a server.
- All packages at version 1.3.1.
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- Hollowcrown: The Rift Between Worlds as its own seed (npm run
seed:hollowcrown), built from the campaign book: pools, 58 monsters,
57 NPCs, 28 locations, 72 encounters with rewards, and DM notes. Shared
seeding logic moved to prisma/seedCampaign.js.
- What players can see: only encounters their own character is in; only
the pool entries their character holds (plus starting options while
building); only locations their character has been to; no invite code;
no gold, inventory or money log of other players' characters. Socket
events carry ids only and campaign rooms are members-only.
- Encounters have a location; while one is in progress its characters are
there, and visits are remembered.
- Campaign setting to show players a health bar only for monsters and NPCs.
- Initiative is entered as the d20 roll (1-20) and the bonus is added;
players can enter their own character's roll.
- Number fields enforce their limits when typing, and the API enforces
the same limits.
- Temp HP shows on HP bars and absorbs damage before real HP.
- All packages at version 1.3.0.
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- Campaigns: DM can archive/restore; owner can delete. Archived campaigns
move off the main list and stop accepting invite codes.
- Encounters: DM can archive/restore and delete, and arrange the campaign's
own order; the list can also be sorted by name, status, type or date.
Archived encounters are hidden from players' lists.
- Account page with change password (POST /auth/password).
- Seed is now additive (safe on a live database; --reset for the old wipe)
and builds a fuller Aldenfell: earned weapons, item pool, spells, NPCs,
and 28 battle/quest scenes with descriptions, DM notes and rewards.
- Vite preview host config for the deployed site.
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Characters
- Builder: pick-then-Next on every step with live preview, Back button,
plain-language help throughout, and "Suggest for me" for ability scores
- Motivation is picked from a list; new steps for special abilities,
background and appearance, all composed from fixed lists and DM-only
to edit afterwards
- Copy a character to another campaign
- Characters can give gold, weapons, items and spells to each other
- Money tracker: gold only changes through a logged ledger
- Fixes: level/XP/location are DM-only, HP stays within 0..max, physical
dice ability rolls, every die is rolled once
Gear
- DM-managed item pool; weapons, items and spells are handed out by the DM
- Starting-option flag per pool entry
- Gear levels 1-9 per held copy with a damage ladder, growth rate and
starting level; spells gated by spell level with a fixed damage value
- Spell library carries default damage; damage is picked from a list
Encounters
- Battle and NPC quest modes, turn tracking, scene description, DM notes
- NPCs, richer combatant cards, conditions from a list
- Rewards (gold, weapons, items) lined up and awarded, with gold splitting
- Character HP is shared between the sheet and the encounter
- Monster stat blocks and NPC secrets are never sent to players
Other
- Dice roller on every page
- Docs for characters, weapons, spells, items, encounters, monsters and
NPCs, with full lists generated from the data (npm run docs:lists)
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