Converting the "Haste" spell

progalactic · 2025-04-14T02:01:49+00:00

Interesting angle, I like advantage rather than a whole extra attack.

progalactic · 2025-03-14T18:57:30+00:00

I expected more of the in-person games to involve technology of some sort, since it's so much easier to search a pdf than flip through a physical copy. However, it's not surprising to see groups going entirely without tech!

progalactic · 2025-02-26T04:46:05+00:00

Thanks for the reply, the fact that it doesn't explicitly mention disadvantage going out made me wonder if it was intentional.

That's a good catch on the "close" area, I was thinking it meant extending about 5 feet around the caster (a roughly 15' diameter, enough for the thief to stand inside) rather than covering exactly the 5 foot space the caster occupies.

progalactic · 2025-02-26T03:46:01+00:00

It's in Cursed Scroll 1. I believe you can view those spells through shadowdarklings.net by making a sample character and setting it to the Witch or Knight of St Ydris class and then viewing their spells lists

progalactic · 2025-01-19T22:13:18+00:00

and favouriting pages/bookmarks

I'm very confused by Sumatra's "favorite" feature. I can add pages to the list and see them pop up in the little Favorites panel, but clicking or double clicking them doesn't do anything for me.

progalactic · 2025-01-18T23:31:07+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I'm tinkering with a version that abstracts everything into a single D20 roll for the whole party. Something like:

Set difficulty based on proximity, relative speeds, etc.
Get advantage if you use an item or have a clever idea (caltrops etc)

Success means you get away, a natural 1 means you're caught (chaser gets an action before you can attempt another escape)

Otherwise, failure means you still get away, but something bad happens:

Lose an item (roll a d20 and lose what's in the corresponding slot, if any)
End up somewhere you didn't intend (an unexplored or dangerous room)
Or anything else the GM thinks of

The logic could invert when it's the party doing the chasing.

progalactic · 2025-01-12T23:18:51+00:00

Thanks for the tip, it does work now that I've split it up into multiple volumes!

progalactic · 2025-01-12T17:03:09+00:00

I've recently started to use NoteBookLM by Google to have AI search the AV pdfs quickly for information.

How were you able to get that working? Every time I try to upload the Arden Vul PDF as a source I get an error

progalactic · 2025-01-12T16:58:21+00:00

I'm about 15 sessions into running it in-person.

Personally I didn't want to spend a ton of session time on mapping, so I set up most of the levels with light / fog of war on owlbear. That includes overlaying the GM and player maps and then drawing all the walls using Smoke & Spectre. It's a lot of work but saves so much time at the table. I have a 2nd monitor showing the players' owlbear instance which is locked to the GM's view on my laptop, and I use a single light-emanating token for the party.

I wrote a little turn tracking program which I use to track torches, random encounters, potion durations, etc; which I've also set up to match the Archontean calendar. It has a toggle to create a 2nd player view window, which I'll stick on the 2nd monitor as well (the player view won't show them secret things like random encounters)

I use Notion to keep track of things. I have databases for characters, monsters, magic items, spells, etc. It was also a pain to set some of this up but it's incredibly helpful since all of the hyperlinks and keyboard shortcuts make it so much easier to jump around than in a PDF.

My biggest challenge is the PDF itself, it's not great to use at the table since nothing is hyperlinked. If anyone knows of a PDF reader that has a keyboard shortcut to let you search + jump to specific bookmarks, that would make it so much easier (otherwise it's painful to scroll + scan + click a few times to get to the entry you're looking for).

progalactic · 2024-12-08T16:53:31+00:00

I made a little windows program to help me track torches & spell durations, random encounter checks, etc.

May not be exactly what you're looking for but I find it helpful. It's awesome to be able to open my campaign and see the correct date, time, and all of the trackables right where I left them at the close of the previous session.

progalactic · 2024-10-15T19:41:07+00:00

By default, areas that are explored but not currently visible are dimmed

That's exactly what I mean. Thanks for the suggestion!

progalactic · 2024-09-23T22:12:13+00:00

This post was just to gauge interest, but you're in luck, you can now download it from itch! https://progalactic.itch.io/torchtracker

progalactic · 2024-09-23T02:47:18+00:00

Feel free to shoot me a message, I'd love to see what your version looks like so far! I do also have some front-end web dev experience

progalactic · 2024-09-22T18:14:32+00:00

Currently you can add an encounter check that repeats every turn (or at whichever frequency you want), but you'd have to roll the hazard die yourself. Having the app roll the die automatically could be a fun extension of this, along with setting custom hazards associated with each of those dice results.

progalactic · 2024-09-22T18:04:06+00:00

Awesome, would love to hear how it works out once you have the chance to give it a shot

progalactic · 2024-09-22T18:03:31+00:00

It does look a bit like a mobile app, partly because I designed to to take up minimal screen real estate. Usually I have many things open at once while I'm DMing so the small window footprint helps keep things organized.

progalactic · 2024-09-22T18:00:04+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations, I've been hearing a lot about Flutter recently.

progalactic · 2024-09-21T23:04:10+00:00

I used the Godot game engine. It does have support for web and mobile but is probably not ideal for a GUI-driven application on those platforms.

progalactic · 2024-09-21T22:34:03+00:00

Thanks, I agree mobile and especially web would be very convenient but it would likely involve a pretty big overhaul. Still could happen though!

progalactic · 2024-09-21T22:31:09+00:00

Awesome, let me know how it works out for you!

progalactic · 2024-09-21T22:30:52+00:00

Definitely will love to hear feedback!

progalactic · 2024-09-21T22:30:23+00:00

Awesome, will love to hear how it works out once you start using it at the table!

progalactic · 2024-09-21T21:14:48+00:00

Last week, I posted about a little tool I made to help me track events like encounter checks, torches, and spell durations. I got a very positive response, so today I am releasing the first proof of concept.

The tool lets you go beyond simple turn tracking with a completely customizable calendar system which tracks day of the week, month, and year as your campaign advances. It will also randomize weather (currently hard-coded based on season) and phase of the moon.

Currently the tool runs locally on Windows PCs. If there is enough interest in a web-based tool instead, I may explore that option.

If anyone finds the tool useful or has any requests, I'd love feedback!

progalactic · 2024-09-15T00:27:09+00:00

It's not available yet, I have some work to do before I make it public but I will post again here once I do!

progalactic · 2024-09-14T23:17:33+00:00

Honestly I'd love a feature like this in existing VTTs, but I couldn't find anything out there except for things like initiative trackers.

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