Show and Tell: new online character sheet and tools
Jan 2, 2020 20:42:03 GMT -5
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Post by d4caltrops on Jan 2, 2020 20:42:03 GMT -5
Hello TrollBridge!
I want to play more games and especially run a lot more T&T in 2020. I thought it would be helpful to have a few utilities to support that effort, especially for online play and/or for things I mess up all the time (like assigning adventure points).
Hot off the presses, bugs and all, I'd like to humbly present the online character sheet tool I put together:
aspiring-grognard.net/utrollities/character.html
Here's what it does today:
- Captures all of the data from the Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls character sheet
- Loads and saves character data to a plain-text format (TOML) to save locally
- Automatically resizes to a phone or tablet friendly view
- Optionally lets you load data from a URL string (save and share your character and current state with a bookmark!)
- Automatically computes derived attributes (level, weight possible, and personal adds) based on dT&T rules (no penalty for low attributes)
I would like to open source it once I clean the code up a little bit. In part this is to ensure anyone who wants to use it can get a local copy to self-host if desired. I've tried to design it for minimal hosting requirements, so it is all static HTML and JavaScript.
With the big chunk (character sheet) done, I'm planning a few more tools that I will put on the site:
- Adventure point tally/ledger to make it easy to keep track of who has earned what during the course of an adventure
- Encounter generator to generate encounters of varying difficulty for parties of a target size and level/adds
- Monster tracking tool as a combat aide -- roll the dice for a given MR and track health reduction over time
- Random character generator
I hope this is useful to your play! Thank you very much for taking a look, and for any feedback you have!
Happy Delving!
I want to play more games and especially run a lot more T&T in 2020. I thought it would be helpful to have a few utilities to support that effort, especially for online play and/or for things I mess up all the time (like assigning adventure points).
Hot off the presses, bugs and all, I'd like to humbly present the online character sheet tool I put together:
aspiring-grognard.net/utrollities/character.html
Here's what it does today:
- Captures all of the data from the Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls character sheet
- Loads and saves character data to a plain-text format (TOML) to save locally
- Automatically resizes to a phone or tablet friendly view
- Optionally lets you load data from a URL string (save and share your character and current state with a bookmark!)
- Automatically computes derived attributes (level, weight possible, and personal adds) based on dT&T rules (no penalty for low attributes)
I would like to open source it once I clean the code up a little bit. In part this is to ensure anyone who wants to use it can get a local copy to self-host if desired. I've tried to design it for minimal hosting requirements, so it is all static HTML and JavaScript.
With the big chunk (character sheet) done, I'm planning a few more tools that I will put on the site:
- Adventure point tally/ledger to make it easy to keep track of who has earned what during the course of an adventure
- Encounter generator to generate encounters of varying difficulty for parties of a target size and level/adds
- Monster tracking tool as a combat aide -- roll the dice for a given MR and track health reduction over time
- Random character generator
I hope this is useful to your play! Thank you very much for taking a look, and for any feedback you have!
Happy Delving!
