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Year: 2022
Rejecting Coins
One of the suggestions for the Kick Starter was to offer upgrades of metal tokens These awesome prototypes in Steel Electroplated Nickel Silver look fantastic but they are very heavy adding 1.75 Kg to the case. They do come with the bonus of being able to stick to a Magnetic sheet. I’m not sure GM’s will cope with having that much weight added to the case. Its a real pity because they look and feel fantastic.
D&D Wall
A large fridge magnet type plastic sheet with these coins would work great if you ever need a D&D wall where you could leave your tokens and campaign setup. Tell me in the comments if you think there is a market for such a product.
Joke: Party Cooperation
Encounter Log Pad
These are to be added to the GMLight flavour packs. As a simple pad with double sided tear off sheets. The idea is to give a busy GM a way of recording a random encounter. Each tear off sheet will have random example encounter maps both for on the road and underground for the GM to use if appropriate or ignore. Front Page adds
- Date
- Character record list
- HP tracker/record for the encounter
- Table of encounter colour * roll D10
Back page
- Notes
- Treasure given
- Coins
- Random Minor Magic items you can tick to add
- Random Minor Material weapons you can tick to add
- Random Gems you can tick to add
- Random Jewellery you can tick to add
- Possible treasure documents you can tick to add
- Minor Magic items you can tick to add
These are to add value to the flavour Packs for the Kick Starter any comments on how to improve them will be considered
GMLight expansion packs and addons for the Kick starter
We are preparing to run a Kick starter campaign for GMLight Flavour packs: Add ons to GMLight specific to the various gaming systems. The surveys we’ve conduct have shown that D&D 5e is the most popular FRPG played today. D&D 5e is published under the open game license OGL which means that legal requirements for publishing works which make use of its intellectual property is contained and defined in this license. Other FRPGs that fall under the OGL are D&D3.5, D&D4e,Pathfinder 2e, Pathfinder and Basic Fantasy RPG. The intention is to run Kick Starters for generating flavour packs for each of these FRPGs. D&D4e does not appear to have a strong following and so will be omitted from the proposed kick starter list.
Contents:
- 90 Double Sided monster cards (up to 180 Monsters) Each with a drawing of the monster below its textual description
- DM Screen for tailored to the FRPG
- Sheet of peel-able Condition Stickers for Conditions in the RPG
- Set of Initiative clippons to run a round
If you have any good ideas how we can add more value please answer in the comments
What size House Battery
So I need an idea of the size of House Battery to get. To Store the excess solar energy from our solar panels.
Well the CUMonitor plus the tel-tec web calculator lets you model the problem so you can try out different house battery capacities at the different times of the year. see example logging data here.
If you are interested in joining the CUMonitor user group fill out the form here. Note you will have to purchase a CUMonitor box to log your house it you want to take part as a member
The Battery size is entered at the top of the page and the first (light green) bar chart is of the Power remaining in the Battery and the second is the Power from the solar panels. The Assumption is made that the 24 hr period starts with the Battery full.
Some CU Meters have an LED that illuminates when the Meter is exporting the to Grid CUMonitor can optionally monitor this or use an internally calculated flow,
Dice Roller Speaks
A request on our Facebook page lead to the development of Dice Roller Speaks.
Dice Roller Speaks was created to make Fantasy role playing games more inclusive. Produced with the visually impaired in mind this App allows Dungeons and Dragons players and other Fantasy Role playing games to roll Dice with a vocal output.
This app is free and on the Google play store
- The Left hand column is the number of Dice to be rolled (spoken)
- The Dice Picture column Rolls the dice and speak the Result
- The Up arrow increases the count of dice rolled
- the Down arrow decreases the count of dice rolled
- The + symbol rolls with advantage
- the – symbol rolls with disadvantage
- the GMLight Dice Symbol at top and bottom repeats the Voice of the last roll
Thanks to Colaborators
With thanks for Optician advice to Peter Croucher
Special thanks to Thomas Croucher for the Voice Over
Consumer Release of Web RD
Web RD is now ready for release. The consumer version is a kit just to build the display
- Web Rd Module
- MAX7219 Dot matrix LED Display
- ESP8266 01S Programmed for Niche-tec Web Connect
The MAX7219 component comes with a edge connector and a connecting cable
This edge connector needs to be soldered onto the Web Rd Module to connect the components
The ESP8266 01S Programmed for Niche-tec Web Connect is supplied preprogrammed with test software that displays a test pattern on the Dot Matrix display and is ready to connect to your LAN using one of the Free Web RD software packages available on the play store.
Assembling these three components will create the Consumer Web RD Display
Web RD or Web Remote Display is a stand alone display unit that has the ability to get data from the internet (LAN Required) and display it. This kit is a minimalist set of hardware to support this functionality. We have reduced the cost so you only need to buy the Kit you intend to use. We offer links to other providers that sell the components so you can source them at the lowest price. The Housing of the display is left to the user we have partnered with Xen Dragon 3d Printing to offer a 3d Printed housing:
We offer a free download from Cricut that creates a housing from cardboard that is free of any cost.
Calculating EXP in Dungeons and Dragons
The formal method for calculating the experience award for a character has changed in many ways over the versions. But it still remains one of the most contentious issues as each GM is required to moderate the results and players generally argue that more experience is required. This article lists all the prescribed methods in one place.
Basic D&D
Sum up the Gold Piece value of the treasure taken the add 100* Hit dice of the monster then divide by the Characters Level
AD&D
- Calculate the Gold piece value of treasure taken. Each GP taken adds 1 exp to the total Experience award
- For each monster Add its BXPV to the HP*(XP/HP) add the SA*SAXPB and the EA*EAXPV to the total experience Award (These values are derived from a Table)
- Divide the total Experience award equally between players
AD&D 2e
- For each creature calculate the Hit Dice or Level of the Creature
- Add the additional Hit Dice or levels from the Hit Dice Value Modifier table
- Multiply by the number of Creatures of that type
- Divide by the number of the characters
D&D 3.0
3.0 and 3.5 used the same experience calculation
D&D 3.5
- Find each characters Level accounting for monster characters ECL
- Find the CR for each monster defeated
- Lookup the XP award for a single monster in a table like:
** Note this table is an approximation not the exact values
4. Divide by this number of Characters in the encounter
5. Add up this EXP awards for all the monsters defeated by each character
D&D 4e
Each Monster description has an experience point value
- Total the experience points for all the monsters in an encounter
- Divide by the number of characters
D&D 5e
Each Monster description has an experience point value
- Total the experience points for all the monsters in an encounter
- Divide by the number of characters