Comments on: About D&D Manager

By: David

David — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:10:12 +0000

Hi Matt,

Awesome program. Very handy. The only snag I’m running into is I can’t find a way to just gets the results of a full attack. I like to have my players keep track of their own sheets for the most part, and it would be really handy to have a quick way to get the attack roll and potential damage for each attack all at once. Is there a way to do that, or would it be a possible addition? That way I don’t have to add and maintain every character who may possibly get smacked around at some point. Let me know if I’m missing something obvious.

All in all though, this is a impressive program. Kudos!
-David

By: Simon Halliday

Simon Halliday — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:44:05 +0000

Hey, thanks for the great program. I’ve been playing around and trying to work out how, with a spellcasting prestige class, to say ‘add +1 spellcaster level’. For example, I was generating the class, but in spell progression I would basically have to add a new version of the class and a new spell progression for a character who chose to go into it from, say, character level 8 and then a different spell progression for a character who adopted the same class at CL 10. Is there a short-cut for this ‘+1 spellcasting level’ that I’m not getting? Thanks again.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:41:08 +0000

Sounds cool. I don’t think a 4th edition version will happen

By: John Wiggins

John Wiggins — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:09:23 +0000

also, any plans on a 4th ed. version?

By: John Wiggins

John Wiggins — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:07:40 +0000

I’ve “dabbled” with the iPhone SDK/xcode… I’d be happy to attempt to port your program over (although apple has yet to allow me to send them any apps just yet)

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:09:41 +0000

First of all, you’ve done an excellent job with this program. Often when I try using software to replace spreadsheet tracking of my character, it turns out to be inadequate, but your program pretty much does the job! I continue to notice neat touches that are so well thought out.

I have some requests for you to consider incorporating to make it even better:

* When ‘Cast Spell’ is clicked, the ‘Properties for the selected spell’ doesn’t update to match the spell selected. The ‘Metamagic Feats Used’ does but not the properties. This will be handy when fixed.
* Is there a way to tweak the weapon system to accommodate dual-damage type weapons. I’m thinking of the gnomish hooked hammer in particular. I know it may be a lot of work for a gnomish hammer which many people would never use but right now I have to enter the hammer as twice in the global weapons screen, once as a piercing weapon, again as bludgeoning.
* It would be nice to be able to enter an item such as a bag of holding in one’s inventory, assign items to it, and have the encumbrance system keep track of the bag’s capacity capacity and account for the weight reduction Right now I add a second bag and enter a negative value for the weight of the items in it.
* Could you rework the value column for items to allow alternative standard currencies (or even custom ones) to be used: silver and copper pieces.
* It would be useful if in addition to and right below the wealth box, a net worth box were placed that automatically summed a character’s wealth and the total value of all inventory items.
* Could the weight of coins placed in the wealth box be automatically be factored into the encumbrance system.
* Could you increase the precision of the weight column to handle items less than .1 lb.

I’ve studied Qbjective-C and have downloaded the source code; however I’m not a programmer by trade nor am I proficient enough yet to make the changes myself.

thanks,

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:40:36 +0000

Hey, one thing i noticed right off the bat that really bugged me was i couldn’t find any way to alter attributes. The games that i usually play, the GM (whether or not it is me) will give out an attribute array, 18,16,14,14,12,12. so everyone has a fair character (had whiney players in the past, and i just noticed this works for speeds sake when creating characters.
if there is a way to alter the attributes, where is it? if not, would adding the ability to do so in a future patch be a possibility, i’d love to use this app for managing games as it seems to work really well, but if i cant change the attributes, im afraid i might nerd rage (kidding, obviously, but it would be quite awesome if you could do that)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:30:57 +0000

I don’t think I’m doing enough work on it to do this I’m afraid.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:29:29 +0000

You just change the number of ranks.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:24:48 +0000

Hey, another thing. If I sent you a HUMONGOUS data file based off a video game (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion), would you post it here? I won’t have it for a long time, Oblivion is HUGE, and since the Manager won’t allow random weapons and armour added to people, it takes forever.

IDEAS: Add an armour tab. Will work much like weapons.
Allow randomized characters. For example: I want to fight 4 bandits with my guy, but I don’t want to make all them. I can just give a list of things that will be equipped on them, and voila, it has a couple randomized bandits for my murdering pleasure.

You likey?