Shadow of the Demon Lord Clean Up (1-21-26 to 1-28-26)

[superteddy57]

I've done a clean up of the system to help it be more future proof and in line with our current design philosophy. The build is currently on the Test server and would like to extend a welcome to try it out and provide feedback. I've also included some new features that are common place in other rulesets as well. Please leave feedback here and I'll address them. This will be up for a week on the Test server before it goes to the LIVE server and replace the ruleset that is currently there.

[dmbrown]

Thanks for doing this and what are the new features?

[superteddy57]

Spell lists - New Tradition Records to make them.
Ability to add 2nd Expert path
Dialog driven level up
Damage dice skin availability
Universal Boon/Bane on the desktop for both GM/Player - double clicking the boon and bane indicators in the entries will add them to the desktop widget to add to action rolls
Ability to edit both mod and score for attributes
I also smoothed out a ton of the systems to make it a tad cleaner with chat outputs to make it easier to use sounds

[Gwydion]

This is awesome! Some very initial first things. I understand some are personal pref so certainly grain of salt....

Preference:
* Can we consider (later) updating the character sheet background? Its a nit but looks a little modern for sotdl.

Bugs/UI Questions:
* If I click level up right after I create a character, it lets me level up but just asks for ancestry and then path. I think it should stop me (if possible) from leveling up until I select ancestry.
* When I select an ancestry the text displays, "has chosen be from the Human ancestry". S/b "chosen to be" I think. (I know.. a nit!)
* I think many of the rolls used to be two clicks and I think most everythign now is one. No problem, just a design change/choice.
* I'm not completely understanding the attribute fields. It looks like the field next to the attribute number with the "+" sign is the modifier? What is the field below the attribute for? Is that if you get an additional modifier or something from a talent?
* When I select a path, talents load (e.g. for a priest, "magic and shared recovery"), however if I try to click on them the record opens to a blank record with the heading only. If I drag/drop the talent from the sidebar it populates on the sheet and opens as I would expect.

I'll test more this weekend. Really awesome work! This is a great cleanup and I'm just getting started poking around.

[superteddy57]

Thanks for the feedback. It was insightful.

Preference - I will attempt to add back in some of the graphics if I can, but there is the gothic theme provided for free that might help in the meantime.

Bugs/UI Questions
1) That's a good plan and I'll update it a bit
2) Never been good with chat output for things like that lol
3) We've been trying to get as many things to a single click. It's part of the design decision
4) The little field of the score is a modifier to the score. The score is the left diamond. Bonus is the right diamond
5) That seems like an issue with the level up system. I'll give it a look when I update from 1.

[Gwydion]

Awesome. So appreciate the love and attention you are given to this cleanup!

[superteddy57]

Pushed a new build that will address the issues reported.

[Ravanazar]

Very nice!
Love the single click to roll.
Took me a min to realize the sheet had to be unlocked to set the boons and banes for individual weapons and spells.
The spells organized under their respective traditions is a great idea.
It's not working right for me every time though.
Sometimes when I add a spell it lands under the wrong tradition.
If I drag it to the correct tradition it double lists it.
When I ad a second spell from its same tradition it will move to the correct tradition along with the new one.

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Thanks again for all your work on this, my group is going to dig it.

[superteddy57]

Well drag and dropping it won't organize, it will act like you are dropping the spell to add it to the list. So if it's not sorting correctly, I can take another look at it. Which spells did you have when this occurred?

[superteddy57]

Just want to verify those are the spells in your image and how they are built. Might hold an idea why it's not organizing correctly

[Ravanazar]

Those are the spells in the image.

The first two spells organized under their tradition properly.
Adding the third spell "Feat of Will" from a third tradition "Soul" caused it to land under "Exorcist".
It did create the "Soul" spell group so I tried dragging "Feat of Will" from Exorcist to Soul.
It created two copies of "Feat of Will" under soul.
Deleting either moved "Feat of Will" back under Exorcist.
Adding "Focused Strike" moved "Feat of Will" under Soul and placed "Focused Strike" under Soul as well.

[Ravanazar]

Attached is the image of "Feat of Will" doubled after dragging it from under Exorcist to under Soul

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[superteddy57]

This has been pushed LIVE. Please continue using the bug report thread moving forward.