Paizo and SmiteWorks sign an agreement for official Pathfinder support!

[Bidmaron]

And have to pee five minutes after we get back on road

[ddavison]

New update: We are still waiting on some store integration stuff, but I just pretty much finished the Advanced Player's Guide. We are taking advantage of this delay and John is busy adding in more support for the classes and races to see if we can make it more like 5E.

[Bidmaron]

Good to hear, sir, but character creation is rather infrequent. I'd rather see the time invested in play enhancements (e.g. effects/conditions that auto-apply when equipping/triggering a magic item) rather than character creation.

Having thrown the hand grenade into the room, I'm backing out now....

[Moon Wizard]

Those sound like the kind of grenades that Doug throws my way. Just to clarify Doug's statement, we're going to start with just adding racial traits and class features to the sheet when race/class dropped. I might look at trying to parse some of the traits for races like we do with 5E, but no promises, because there are way more options in PF and 3.5E.

Regards,
JPG

[damned]

Those sound like the kind of grenades that Doug throws my way. Just to clarify Doug's statement, we're going to start with just adding racial traits and class features to the sheet when race/class dropped. I might look at trying to parse some of the traits for races like we do with 5E, but no promises, because there are way more options in PF and 3.5E.

Regards,
JPG

Hand Grenade is exactly what i thought when i read Doug's post!
Better tell him how it is at the next weekly meeting

Bidmaron you know that no ruleset has effects on items...

[JohnD]

Those sound like the kind of grenades that Doug throws my way. Just to clarify Doug's statement, we're going to start with just adding racial traits and class features to the sheet when race/class dropped. I might look at trying to parse some of the traits for races like we do with 5E, but no promises, because there are way more options in PF and 3.5E.

Regards,
JPG

There's an understatement....

[Bidmaron]

Bidmaron you know that no ruleset has effects on items...

Yes, that is my point. I want something better than 5.0. Give us new functionality and not waste time on character creation that other programs do so much better.

[ddavison]

Hand Grenade is exactly what i thought when i read Doug's post!
Better tell him how it is at the next weekly meeting

I prefer to think of them as Skill Challenges.

He's getting older, so it's important for him to maintain his mental acuity as he ages.

[Blackfoot]

Yes, that is my point. I want something better than 5.0. Give us new functionality and not waste time on character creation that other programs do so much better.

He makes kinda a valid point here. Items that 'work' and spell modules that have all the effects built in (like Farnaby's) are pretty important actually. 'Items' (and most spells) as they are right now don't actually do a whole lot (except for weapons & armor). They list the details of what the item is.. and that's about it. The new armor functionality seems like a step in the right direction on this stuff. While it seems like it would be very complex to add some functionality to items to link them to the Actions Tab.. actually storing Effect Text in an item can't be that big a deal (other than actually creating said text for countless items).. and a way to deliver said text to the combat tracker can't really be that bad... or hmm..
I'm not sure how everyone plays Pathfinder, but most of the PFS players that I play with generally have a Spell Class full of these sorts of effects... there could be some sort of interface there..

[ddavison]

We generally look to add features that are already very close. The leveling stuff we are mentioning is very, very basic. Most of that work was handled in the data already and I was able to automate it it's creation -- i.e., what abilities do you get at what level, so that we can copy those to the character's abilities tab when the level is reached. Items are probably a much bigger component and much more difficult. The stacking rules are fairly complex and requires that you have 100% confidence in the ability to know the type of bonus for everything.