Development Update 4

The sheet looks messier, but more stuff works.

That’s the main summary of the last couple of months. But here are the general developments:

• The way Proficiencies work is changing to a more Pathfinder inspired system to make them more interesting and correct for the big differences in scaling per point between weapon proficiencies and the rest of them

• The Olfactory stat changed to ‘Intuition’ but I’ve now settled on the third perception stat being ‘Focus’ which will have more mechanical relevance

• Finally figured out how dodge should work: Dodging only affects evasion against attacks happening later in the round, also initiative (reactions) become important for making dodging effective.

• HP has been simplified, with HP no longer going below 0. Wounds are more like a secondary HP buffer with a scaling negative effect.

• Many parts of the website and layout have been tidied up and tweaked.

• Items and inventory is nearly working, just need to make the items modal and get the items manager working better (currently not updating the inventory state for copies of items)

• The Character Creator and backgrounds are gradually being expanded. Once the stat trades and item choices are on there it will be all ready to go

Still a long way to go until the character sheet is moving to Alpha testing, but it will happen in a matter of months now. Then the focus will be on content, refining the design and adding more of the additional features for the system.

I can’t wait to start working on the spinners for the skill checks, but I’m forcing myself not to rush ahead in development until more core stuff is working.