May 2024 Development Update

Hello Adventurers!

It's been a frustrating month. There has been a bunch of work in the background towards Foundry v12, several failed experiments, bits of work that have yet to result in meaningful change, and some frustrating regressions.

That said, there have been good improvements for fans of high automation, with improved Chris Premades support. More features are now available for integration with the new improved 5e system, with damage rolls now parsed into rollables in monster descriptions.

Pathmuncher also received a small update but has increased reliability a fair bit.

Vecna: Eve of Ruin is releasing on DDB toward the end of May, and I expect it to be available for the adventure muncher in late May or early June.

Thanks for your support

Jack/MrPrimate

Condensed Changelog

DDB Importer

• Several small language tweaks in the interface.

• Spell parsing would create duplicate tables.

• On character import update, name choice was not respected for the prototype token.

• Fix for some touch spells not setting target correctly to 1 creature, e.g. Gift of Alacrity.

• Thunder Gauntlets and Lighting Launcher now parse as weapons rather than features.

• More icons from @kaelad

• Override Item Config error in some niche circumstances.

• Fix missing read aloud boxes/asides in some imported adventures.

• Reference parser will now use enrichers where it can in descriptions.

• Monster feature descriptions will now attempt to parse out tags for rules references.

• Make monster and item names use @lookup in when hiding text from players.

• Use damage roll enrichers in monster features.

• Creatures like the Helmed Horror would not add magical to the bypasses of their Damage Resistance.

• Some monster features, such as a dragons breath weapon, would not always correctly set the resource consumption on import.

• Some Legendary Actions were not created where there were duplicates.

• Summon Monster parsing was failing for some versions of Draconic Spirit.

• Canaith Mandolin Magic Item charge fix.

• Fix updating characters back to DDB for some actions such as Artificer Magical Tinkering and Rune Knight Runic Shield.

• Thrown weapons importing with incorrect ability set.

• Chris Premades fix for certain class builds.

• Chris Premades monster parsing was not applying effects for all monster features.

• Chris Premades Monster Feature integration now allows pulling features from MISC and Gambits premades.

• Some effects, noteably Magic Weapon, would not remove the magic property from the weapon when the effect ended.

• Bleak Cabal Void Soother fixes (thanks @Moto Moto )

• Fix for simple distance calculations (thanks @Elwin )

• Ensnaring Strike fixes from the wonderful @Elwin

• Some improvements to the Eye Ray macro for Beholders, etc., include better description parsing for Ray attacks, handling multiple targets, and rolling damage to Disintegration.

• Improvements to Guidance cantrip effect.

• Draconic Resilience did not include bonus hp in effect due to recent ac effect fixes.

Active Auras

• German Translation

Pathmuncher

• With the latest Pathbuilder export much improved Inventor class handling.

• Better handling of granted items with alterations, e.g. inventor weapons.

• Fix issue with Speciality Crafting failing to import selected choices correctly.

DDB Adventure Muncher

• Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye Support

• Tales from the Yawning Portal is now a singular book download, not individual books for new purchases.

• Electron and Node updates.

• Apple build is now signed to reduce warnings during install.