Character Planner - Series 3.xx

[Ron]

Hi Ron and Dragon.Star,

I'm trying to build a monk and I stumbled upon this:

I'm at lvl 19, I have 19 dex and I can't select the "Grandmaster of Storms" enhancement!!! The req are 18 dex and "Master of thunder". Both of which I have!

Thanks again for this great program

Hey Ag, can you give me a breakdown of where that dex comes from? I just want to make sure, because a lot of people get tripped up on the ability requirements. Remember, ability coming from enhancements do NOT count toward prereqs.

[Aganthor]

Hey Ag, can you give me a breakdown of where that dex comes from? I just want to make sure, because a lot of people get tripped up on the ability requirements. Remember, ability coming from enhancements do NOT count toward prereqs.

Oh! I didn't know that. I'll check it out and give you some feedback. It might not be before sunday or monday...

[Xenus_Paradox]

Ron,

I'd like to suggest a feature.

Auto-spend skill points: When this option is turned on, several drop-down boxes will appear with all trainable skills listed. Select a skill to automatically spend the maximum number of points on it each level. Skills will be prioritized in order of selection, so if you only have enough points to spend on 5 skills, and you have 6 skills selected, the lowermost dropdown box will be ignored.

This would cut down on the time spent manually incrementing skill points, particularly for characters who will be selecting the same ones every level anyway.

[Jay203]

heya Ron, don't know if it's gonna be a big trouble, but would you mind doing a bit of fix up with the stats that enhancements check at each lvl?
like make it so the tomes would be noted at the same level, but after skills yet before enhancements o_O

[Ron]

Ron,

I'd like to suggest a feature.

Auto-spend skill points:

This would cut down on the time spent manually incrementing skill points, particularly for characters who will be selecting the same ones every level anyway.

I'll discuss it with the team. I agree, this is one of the most tedious parts of the planner, especially when you are just selecting the same skills for every level. Maybe we can come up with something.

heya Ron, don't know if it's gonna be a big trouble, but would you mind doing a bit of fix up with the stats that enhancements check at each lvl?
like make it so the tomes would be noted at the same level, but after skills yet before enhancements o_O

Hmmm, I thought this was already the case, but I'll check into it. You are right, the enhancements SHOULD detect the tomes "at level" rather than at "next level".

[Tanka]

While we're suggesting things:

Completionist (once they allow more than 2 TRs) grants +2 to each stat and skill. Any chance we could see those numbers in the planner?

[Ron]

While we're suggesting things:

Completionist (once they allow more than 2 TRs) grants +2 to each stat and skill. Any chance we could see those numbers in the planner?

Done. You'll see it in the next release.

[Tanka]

Done. You'll see it in the next release.

Thanks!

[SockMonkey]

Great tool, I am looking forward to a TR feature.

[Tanka]

Great tool, I am looking forward to a TR feature.

Download the latest version. It's already in.

[Jay203]

no suggestion for this post nor bug report
just a general /hug to Ron

[sly_1]

Hey Ron this may or may not be ot but check out this site:

http://nwn2db.com/

This is a similar type of project to what you are doing but for a different game. It is similar though because it is for nwn2 which is a dnd based game so there are tons of similarities between this site and your program.

A couple of things that I really like about the site I linked to:

- the skill point picker. That thing is vastly slicker and more user frieldy. you can tell it "max every level" or other options to basically auto populate skill points without having to manually type them in every level.

- the feat layout and selection: despite the fact that the game that site is a builder for has maybe 3 or 4x as many feats as DDO, it is easier to pick feats with that site due to the layout and presentation of the feat selection. This could be extended to enhancement selection in your program (no such thing as enhancements in the game the site is for).

Anyway great work on your program, it's very useful. not at all trying to knock your program just trying to provide some constructive input.

Thanks!

Oh and p.s. If I have 1 request it would be for a checkbox to "hide feats I don't qualify for at this time". This way you can toggle all the feats on or off, and if you want to only look at the feats you can take cool, then with a click of a button you can look at *all* the feats so you can read up on the prereqs and know what you need to take to get feat xyz. Same thing for enhancements.

As it is lets say you take 2 monk or rogue lvls in a build, well from then on you need to see each and every rogue or monk enhancement every single lvl. Most of those enhancements you will never qualify for so no need for them to even display.

Another option for enhancements would be to pre-populate the character lvls before you start building. this way you could basically tell the program that you are only taking x # of lvls in a class and it will only show you the enhancements for that class you will be able to qualify for. no snence is showing me the monk capstone when I'm only takin 2 monk lvls, ya know?

[WilliamBraveheart]

It appears that the Bard song Inspire Heorics is missing from the planner

[Rabbi_Hordo]

It appears that the Bard song Inspire Heroics is missing from the planner

Already fixed this for the next update.
And fixed the spelling for you, too!

[Letrii]

Will equipment be working in next release? And monk AC bonus and wis to AC showing up on calc page?

[Rabbi_Hordo]

Will equipment be working in next release? And monk AC bonus and wis to AC showing up on calc page?

That is stuff Dragon is working on, and I know he is working hard to get the equipment and AC stuff going. How much will be complete by next release I'm not sure yet.

[Sanadil]

Odd bug. I'm using this save file:

http://www.inthecore.com/Kabraxis20.txt

My final ability point increase is CON. In the print out it works fine and shows CON. In the forum export, when I do build replication, its showing that final ability point as STR.

[Dragon.Star]

Will equipment be working in next release? And monk AC bonus and wis to AC showing up on calc page?

I am almost done, should be within a couple of weeks barring anymore delays (like replaceing my hard drive today).

Odd bug. I'm using this save file:

http://www.inthecore.com/Kabraxis20.txt

My final ability point increase is CON. In the print out it works fine and shows CON. In the forum export, when I do build replication, its showing that final ability point as STR.

Hmm. I look into and see what I can find out if Ron doesn't beat me to it

PS. Anyone know of a free utility that will let me do a full restore disk of my hard drive

[Dragon.Star]

Odd bug. I'm using this save file:

http://www.inthecore.com/Kabraxis20.txt

My final ability point increase is CON. In the print out it works fine and shows CON. In the forum export, when I do build replication, its showing that final ability point as STR.

Ok found the issue and it has been fixed for the next release. Thank you for reporting this error.

[cupajoe]

PS. Anyone know of a free utility that will let me do a full restore disk of my hard drive

I would recommend a program called Drive Image XML from Runtime software. The program is free and works well. About the only downside is that it won't let you put an image on a physically smaller drive / partition.