We are always looking for new tools to create to help facilitate the table top gaming experience. Let us know if you have an idea for a new gaming tool you'd like to see. (Note: this is NOT for feature requests on existing tools!)
Init tool has already started some of this functionality. In the last release I added support for a combatant lookup file that is just an XML file containing all of the properties for a set of monsters. Init tool also has a generic 'index card' type character sheet to display and edit the properties. I plan to make the index card pluggable so that somebody could use Abeille form designer to create a game specific display. When we start integrating the tools I'll be able to send this data to map tool so it can be displayed there as well.
This type of pluggable display and property set is how we had planned to start character tool. Add scripting support to it and then game specific support can be added to the sheet.
RPTroll wrote:You all probably already have a source for this but here's the rules and monsters in XML format. It has MySQL, MS SQL Server, and Access as well. This was the first page I found when I began looking for online tools which eventually lead me here. So in a way you can blame this guy for me being here.
When I generated a sample combatant lookup file for init tool I used this data. It is split up fairly well for creating XML files from the SRD monsters.
dglas wrote:I have the good fortune to kow a friendly java-geek, and have had Open and Closed rolls incorporated into the chat tool. Now I can run Feng Shui online.
As in adding code to support a different kind of rolling ? If so you might invite them to send it in as a patch so that everybody can use it
dorpond wrote:I always webstart the apps.. It ensures the latest and greatest
I've had no luck webstarting. Always sits forever at "Checking for latest version" whatever the wording is. Even after turning off my firewall. Though I haven't tried with InitTool, only Maptool.
