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		<title>TrackWork initiative tracker updated to v0.53, now supports Pathfinder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Logan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a few requests to add support for Pathfinder to my lightweight D&#038;D initiative tracker. I also took the opportunity to address a few bugs people had pointed out. Oh, and there&#8217;s a new icon so it matches the rest of my role-playing tools such as CrawlNotes for dungeon mapping and the 4e Power [...]
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I had a few requests to add support for Pathfinder to my <a href="http://downloads.zafehouse.com/trackwork/tw_latest.zip">lightweight D&#038;D initiative tracker</a>. I also took the opportunity to address a few bugs people had pointed out. Oh, and there&#8217;s a new icon so it matches the rest of my role-playing tools such as <a href="http://www.theplaywrite.com/apps">CrawlNotes</a> for dungeon mapping and the <a href="http://www.theplaywrite.com/apps">4e Power Toolkit</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a list of changes:</p>
<blockquote><p>
- Added support for Pathfinder. Touch AC, Flat-Footed AC and CMD can now be entered for combatants.</p>
<p>- Reactivated the heal / wound buttons from v0.4. Back by popular demand!</p>
<p>- Fixed a bug that prevented negative values for most statistics.</p>
<p>- Fixed a bug that would cause the program to crash if negative values were entered for Listen / Spot skills.</p>
<p>- Fixed a bug with the random number generator that would set the maximum value for a random roll to be one less than the actual maximum (so a d20 would be 1-19).</p>
<p>- Made some of the checkbox descriptions clearer.</p>
<p>- Few other miscellaneous tweaks and UI improvements.
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<p><a href="http://downloads.zafehouse.com/trackwork/tw_latest.zip">Download TrackWork v0.53</a></p>
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		<title>4e Power Toolkit v0.7.0 beta released, now with French and Italian translations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Logan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All those French and Italian dungeon masters who were missing out on the awesomeness of the 4e Power Toolkit &#8211; never fear! You too can create your own class and powers with the latest version of the program. Sorry to all the English-only speakers out there&#8230; v0.7.0b doesn&#8217;t contain a great deal for you. Here&#8217;s [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.playwrite-blog.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/4ept_locale.gif" class="right">All those French and Italian dungeon masters who were missing out on the awesomeness of the 4e Power Toolkit &#8211; never fear! You too can create your own class and powers with the latest version of the program.</p>
<p>Sorry to all the English-only speakers out there&#8230; v0.7.0b doesn&#8217;t contain a great deal for you. Here&#8217;s the changelog anyway &#8211; something might take your fancy:</p>
<blockquote><p>* Added first implementation of localisation support &#8211; different languages can be chosen by selecting one of the relevant flag icons at the bottom of the main program window. It is highly experimental and it is not recommended to upgrade to version 0.7.0 unless you plan to beta test localised text. Localised text is stored in the Locale subdirectory (English.txt, French.txt, Italian.txt, etc). Text may not be perfect and some text may still be in English even when a different language is selected. Please contact logan@playwrite-blog.net regarding corrections</p>
<p>* Powers and classes created in one localisation are not compatible with other localisations</p>
<p>* Language data is now stored in power and class XML</p>
<p>* Powers and classes with custom data (power sources, effect types, etc) will now load correctly</p>
<p>* Updated PDFsharp to v1.31</p></blockquote>
<p>Probably the big takeaway is that classes and powers are not compatible between different versions of the toolkit. I should also mention the Italian translation was made with Babelfish, so it&#8217;s no doubt a bit rubbish. </p>
<p>If there&#8217;s anyone out there who&#8217;d like to translate the program into their mother tongue, just dip into the Locale subfolder of the 4e Power Toolkit folder. You&#8217;ll find an English.txt file with the program&#8217;s English text. Use this as a starting point to create your own localisation file. Once you&#8217;re done, just email me at logan (at) playwrite-blog (dot) net with the file and the language it&#8217;s for, and I&#8217;ll include it in the next build.</p>
<p>Thanks to Xavier Hunault-Pérusse for the French translation. </p>
<p><a href="http://downloads.zafehouse.com/4ept/4ept_latest.zip">Download the 4e Power Toolkit 0.7.0b</a></p>
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		<title>Masterplan is like CrawlNotes, but better</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Logan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And here I thought CrawlNotes was an awesome and original idea! Turns out it was so awesome, someone went and did it better. You could say it&#8217;s a bad idea to point out when you&#8217;ve been outdone, but how can it be a mistake to make sure people are using the best software available to [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.playwrite-blog.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mplan_1.jpg" class="centre">And here I thought CrawlNotes was an awesome and original idea! Turns out it was so awesome, someone went and did it better. You could say it&#8217;s a bad idea to point out when you&#8217;ve been outdone, but how can it be a mistake to make sure people are using the best software available to plan their adventures?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.habitualindolence.net/masterplan/">Masterplan</a> is the program you want. Along with an interactive flowchart to track your party&#8217;s progress, you can create and manage combat encounters, put together traps and skill challenges and best of all, build dungeons manually or automatically using graphical tiles. If it sounds so amazing it could blind pigeons, you&#8217;d be right.</p>
<p>If all you want to do is craft dungeons quickly, then go ahead and stick with CrawlNotes. But I think Masterplan would suit better if you plan on expanding your adventures &#8211; in any which way.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.habitualindolence.net/masterplan/">Masterplan</a> [Habitual Indolence]</p>
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		<title>Putting powers into your CrawlNotes printouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Logan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: No need to go to all this trouble! The process has been streamlined from version 0.4 Beta of the Power Toolkit. A handy feature I&#8217;d like to build into the Power Toolkit and CrawlNotes. Until I find the time, here&#8217;s how you can do it manually: 1) Load your power into the Power Toolkit, [...]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Update:</b> No need to go to all this trouble! The process has been streamlined from <a href="http://www.playwrite-blog.net/tools-and-utilities/4e-power-toolkit-v04-beta-released/">version 0.4 Beta of the Power Toolkit</a>.</p>
<p>A handy feature I&#8217;d like to build into the <a href="http://www.playwrite-blog.net/apps">Power Toolkit and CrawlNotes</a>. Until I find the time, here&#8217;s how you can do it manually:</p>
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1) Load your power into the Power Toolkit, and export it to HTML.</p>
<p>2) Open the HTML file in Notepad and look for a line starting with &lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;. Copy this line, and all the lines below it until you hit &lt;/style&gt;. Alternatively, copy the below text:</p>
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 &lt;style type="text/css">
    .InternalPowerContainer {
    text-align: center;
    width: 375px;
    margin-left: -10px;
    margin-right: -10px;
    margin-top: -16px;
    }

    .PowerContainer {
    text-align: center;
    width: 375px;
    }

    .PowerHeader {
    height: 18px;
    text-align: left;
    padding-right: 4px;
    padding-left: 6px;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    }

    .At-Will {
    background-color: #669966;
    }

    .Encounter {
    background-color: #993333;
    }

    .Daily {
    background-color: #404040;
    }

    .PowerHeaderLeft {
    padding-top: 1px;
    font: bold 10pt Verdana;
    float: left;
    }

    .PowerHeaderRight {
    padding-top: 4px;
    font: 7pt Verdana;
    float: right;
    }

    .PowerText {
    color: #000000;
    text-align: left;
    padding-top: 2px;
    padding-left: 6px;
    padding-right: 4px;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    font: bold 7pt Verdana;
    }

    .Flavour {
    background-color: #E6E3C9;
    font: italic 8pt Times New Roman;
    }

    .Alternate {
    background-color: #E6E3C9;
    }

    .AlternateNonPrimary {
    background-color: #E6E3C9;
    padding-left: 14px;
    }

    .NonPrimary {
    padding-left: 14px;
    }
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<p>3) Open &#8220;main.html&#8221; (found in the CrawlNotes directory) in Notepad. Paste the text you just copied just below the line that starts with &lt;title&gt;. Make sure the entire pasted region ends just before the line that starts with &lt;/head&gt;.</p>
<p>4) Go back to the HTML of your power. Copy everything below &lt;/head&gt; (but not the tag itself).</p>
<p>5) Remove the whitespace from the text you copied using <a href="http://www.design215.com/toolbox/whitespace.php">this website</a>. Copy the cleaned text.</p>
<p>6) Paste the text into any of the room description boxes in CrawlNotes. When you export as HTML, your power will appear correctly formatted on the page.
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<p>There&#8217;s no reason why CrawlNotes and the Power Toolkit shouldn&#8217;t have better synergy. Something else on the giant list of things to code. :P</p>
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