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Wyrm Tools 0.13.0 Released
We are pleased to announce release 0.13.0 of Wyrm Tools, an RPG tool platform built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
This release focused on implementing support for prepared spells in the d20 game system plugin. Scripts were added to all SRD classes reflecting the number of daily spell slots a character receives at each level. The d20 character editor Spells page now has a functional Prepared Spells tab that allows you to allocate your available spell slots based on the contents of your known spell list. A few other minor enhancements related to spellcasters were added to the character editor, including the ability to filter your available known spells to show only those spells that you can actually cast.
The Dice Bag tool plugin now has support for working with multiple Dice Bags. The Dice Bag view can host as many or few Dice Bags as you wish, each with its own roll history and variable list.
As before, the Linux/GTK and OSX/Carbon releases are not officially supported. Use them at your own risk.
The Platform, game system, and tool packages may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132696 . The Wyrm Tools installation instructions are available at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=32230&group_id=132696 .
Enjoy the release. Your feedback is always welcome.
--Rusty
2007-07-27 02:37:37 UTC by wyrmtools
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Wyrm Tools 0.12.0 Released
We are pleased to announce release 0.12.0 of Wyrm Tools, an RPG tool platform built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
This release split time between features and architecture. The d20 character element now has support for known spell lists. A character's known spells can be edited on the newly-enabled Spells page of the character editor. Several bugs have been fixed thanks to community contributions.
On the architecture front, the Wyrm Tools metamodel has been included in the product. The metamodel will be of interest to developers looking to extend Wyrm Tools in ways not envisioned by the core development team. Although not yet enabled, the metamodel will open the Wyrm Tools model to non-Java programmers, particularly through the use of arbitrary scripting languages. More development and information about this feature will be forthcoming over the next several releases.
As before, the Linux/GTK and OSX/Carbon releases are not officially supported. Use them at your own risk.
The Platform, game system, and tool packages may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132696 . The Wyrm Tools installation instructions are available at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=32230&group_id=132696 .
Enjoy the release. Your feedback is always welcome.
--Rusty
2007-06-11 02:33:47 UTC by wyrmtools
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Wyrm Tools 0.11.0 Released
We are pleased to announce release 0.11.0 of Wyrm Tools, an RPG tool platform built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
This release focused on pretty much one specific task: the addition of spell, domain, and school elements to the d20 plugin. (The large number of spells in the SRD simply overwhelmed us this release, and we weren't able to address many other features.) All spells, domains, and schools have their full SRD description (including all tables), which is displayed in the Summary view when any of those elements is selected in any other window. Integration of spells with the character editor will be in a forthcoming release. A few minor improvements to the feat editor related to minimum ability score prerequisites were also added.
As before, the Linux/GTK and OSX/Carbon releases are not officially supported. Use them at your own risk.
The Platform, game system, and tool packages may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132696 . The Wyrm Tools installation instructions are available at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=32230&group_id=132696 .
Enjoy the release. Your feedback is always welcome.
--Rusty
2007-04-28 02:25:56 UTC by wyrmtools
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Wyrm Tools 0.10.0 Released
We are pleased to announce release 0.10.0 of Wyrm Tools, an RPG tool platform built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
This release contains a major new feature: print support. Using the Apache FOP package, Wyrm Tools now supports printing directly to PCL- and PostScript-based printers, as well as printing to PDF files. Only the d20 character element supports printing at this time, and then to only a limited extent, but we expect future releases to continually add to the printed information until a full-fledged character sheet is achieved. Unfortunately, the inclusion of Apache FOP has increased the size of the Platform download by another 4 MB.
Additionally, the d20 game system plugin saw some action, as well. All races and classes now have their full SRD description (including all tables), which is displayed in the Summary view when either a race or class is selected in any other window. Replaceable rules have been introduced to define how much a skill costs a character at each level, as well as the maximum skill rank a character can have in that skill (these rules were previously hard-coded).
As before, the Linux/GTK and OSX/Carbon releases are not officially supported. Use them at your own risk.
The Platform, game system, and tool packages may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132696 . The Wyrm Tools installation instructions are available at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=32230&group_id=132696 .
Enjoy the release. Your feedback is always welcome.
--Rusty
2007-03-19 02:55:42 UTC by wyrmtools
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Wyrm Tools 0.9.0 Released
We are pleased to announce release 0.9.0 of Wyrm Tools, an RPG tool platform built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
The first thing everyone is bound to notice in this release is the increase in size of the Platform download by almost 4 MB. This is an unfortunate side-effect of upgrading to version 3.2 of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. The extra pain to download the Platform will be worth it, however, as there are many new features in RCP 3.2 we hope to take advantage of in the coming releases.
The d20 game system plugin saw the most action in this release. As was done for skills in the last release, all feats now have their full SRD description (including all tables), which is displayed in the Summary view when a feat is selected in any other window. Skills have been refined to introduce the concept of composite and component skills, or in layman's terms, subskills. The SRD skills Craft, Knowledge, Perform, Profession, and Speak Language are now composites. The implication for gamers is that one can now say a character will receive, for example, one rank in the Craft composite skill at some particular level, and any Craft component skill (e.g. Craft (Alchemy), Craft (Armorsmithing), etc.) can be selected by the user. An added benefit is that all component skills inherit many of the properties of their composite, alleviating a lot of typing especially when it comes to the description field.
The Dice Bag tool plugin now supports user-defined variables. You can define your own important quantities and use them in your dice roll expressions as usual. Please see the Dice Bag documentation for more information about this new feature.
As before, the Linux/GTK and OSX/Carbon releases are not officially supported. Use them at your own risk.
The Platform, game system, and tool packages may be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132696 . The Wyrm Tools installation instructions are available at http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=32230&group_id=132696 .
Enjoy the release. Your feedback is always welcome.
--Rusty
2007-02-07 02:28:48 UTC by wyrmtools
