A new webapp for 3E Combat

[wastevens]

Holy crap this is awesome!

What do you mean by "store state", precisely?

- You can store your character roster in your browser's localstorage with the Save button.
- You can store a battle-in-progress by... not closing the browser tab. :P

I'd love to let users have access to their data from multiple clients, but I have a limited amount of time to work on this, so I've just ignored the server entirely.

The easiest thing I could do to enable data-sharing w/o a server would be:

- button to export raw roster data as JSON
- button to import raw roster data from copy-pasted JSON
- button to import raw roster data from JSON stored at a URL

That'd be a LOT faster to code than provisioning and connecting to a server; would it help scratch your itch?

I strongly suspect that export / import JSON of the current state would be adequete.

Also, for features to consider; add a 'character' for Battle Groups?

[bartkusa]

add a 'character' for Battle Groups?

What special functionality do Battle Groups need? Hide essence? Freeze their initiative after round 1?

[wastevens]

What special functionality do Battle Groups need? Hide essence? Freeze their initiative after round 1?

Not entirely sure- I'm just anticipating that they'll easily get lost if they aren't in the tracker.
Maybe Size and Magnitude?

[bartkusa]

I would just click Add New Character, type in the group's name, and put their Size/Magnitude/Might/etc in the notes section. They won't get lost if you give them a nice portrait.

[wastevens]

I would just click Add New Character, type in the group's name, and put their Size/Magnitude/Might/etc in the notes section. They won't get lost if you give them a nice portrait.

I shall bear that in mind / give it a try!

[kawaiiwolf]

Interesting ! In it's current state you might actually just be able to scrape out the html/javascript to plug into another site as a static page: Let node.js compile it once for you then copy/paste the results to a more static webserver. I would recommend though, keep serverside interaction external to this app. I wouldn't do anything more complicated than POSTs JSON data to a URL and another that GETS JSON data, that way someone could set it up to use whatever server architecture they needed. You just need to be able to take a JSON object representing the state of a battle (Each of the involved characters, their various attributes (name/picture url/mote pool/init/boolean to represent if they've acted this round) and the current round/tick). If you pass in the json from a https://api.jquery.com/jquery.getjson/ call and set the battle to that, you've already done most of the work needed to synchronize for a "multiplayer" environment.


One thing it does need at the moment: The ability to add someone else into the mix in the middle of the battle.

[Ulthwithian]

This is awesome!

Very happy to see this, as I've been looking for it for a while. This will be a fixture in all my games.