Feb 25, 2022 4:45 pm
The two old dwarves sat alone.
They barely spoke anymore, having long ago mined topics until all that remained was to sift the conversational spoil. The wrinkles around their eyes plotted the routes of their lives. The roads of hardship, loss, and regret were well worn. Wisdom? Not so much.
"I 'member when there were folk 'ere to 'elp." said the first code miner.
Long moments passed before the reply came.
"Aye."
A cloud of blue smoke billowed from the first dwarf's nosewarmer. The second shuffled away from the toxic fumes.
"Vague 'n' Bowl might be along soon. But does tha reckon there's owt lost by askin' for more help?"
The second scowled. Help?! By Moradin's braid what did the miner think he'd been doing? Ungrateful get.
"Nowt lost by askin'" was the measured response.
The first miner took another slow pull on his briar.
"Aye Koldik, me ol' mucker. Nowt lost, 'cept sanity o' course."
Koldik shuffled even farther away. He knew where talks about insanity led. They led to badges and awards.
Development has stalled and needs kickstarting (not kickstarting™, nobody wants money, just feedback).
What's the problem?
We have four features blocked in staging (five really, but only four need CPR).
What can you do?
Try out some of the features and provide feedback on whether these should be submitted for merge. We need your feedback. This is Gamers' Plane, where you choose your own adventure features.
How do you try them out?
Step 1. Visit https://gamersplane.com/login/requestReset and enter your email address, so the real site can send you a new password link.
Step 2. Wait for the email, grab the link which should look something like this:
Replace "https://gamersplane.com/" with "https://mapdm.com/" and submit the URL.
Choose a password for mapdm.com. Sign in and have a tat.
Then what?
Discuss here:
* public threads for discussion.
* A development channel with the GitHub commits (the freshest changes) on discord (https://discord.gg/hKv6rZRE83)
* The Gamers' Plane development channel on discord.
These features need merging or dumping. You will decide which. Ideally, you'd give feedback by voting in the threads, but I'll accept smoke signals.
Feature 1 (the biggie): feature/form_bbcode
This allows you to build custom character sheets (with calculations, if that's your thing) that can be used and edited directly in your game threads. No more Less wading through BBCode.
Here are some examples of using custom character sheets for 5e (including expertise... mmmm...).
But it supports any ol' custom game.
Feature 2 : tweak/dice_highest_lowest_mods
Rolling dice and keeping highest/lowest. This is advantage/disadvantage and stat rolling in 5e.
Feature 3 : tweak/hashed_dice_total_highlighting
This makes it easier for the dice rules to accept variable conditions (like rolling against a DC or AC)
{"rolled": "1d20","reason": "DC##","total": "<##","contentAppend": "❌","highlight": "fail invert bold"},
{"rolled": "1d20","reason": "DC##","total": ">=##","contentAppend": "✅","highlight": "success invert bold"}
Feature 4 : bug/nested_bbtags
Deeper nesting of quotes, ooc, and spoilers.
Feature 5 : tweak/dice_highest_lowest_mods (meh)
This already has four approvals, and it's a minor change. No help is needed here.
Code miners
