This week we finished up a lot of polish and open tasks for the World of Darkness system, including improved support for extra fields in the dice roller, and improved handling of extra fields and manual abilities.

Additionally, have a look at this weeks blogpost about the Equipment Problem

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• (Community Report) The text "12:30: Lunch break" is no longer leads to having 30 in the middle of your time. This helps when you want to talk about exact times (10:30:21), or when you just want to show a time table or other sequence of numbers.

• Changed the way [sidebar] is laid out. The left and right sidebars can now grow to at most two-fifths of the available width (instead of one-third as before). Further, they will not be laid out side-by-side with other sidebars, and instead go under them. This means sidebars are no longer suitable to make pseudo-columns: to get actual columns use the [cols] tag.

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• Outdated sheets now list what game system configuration options have been changed that make the sheet outdated. This helps with keeping your sheet up-to-date.

World of Darkness: Character Sheet

• (Community Suggestion) The Experience field has been moved to the top of the right column (from the left column). The space freed in the left column is now available for extra fields related to the character's identity in the same way the middle column is available for energy fields.

• Changed how empty extra fields are handled, based on feedback and observation of usage. Empty extra fields are now shown, with the exception of empty large text fields which are still hidden. This makes the extra fields behave more like the rest of the character sheet.

• Outdated sheets now list what things have changed to make them outdated. This helps with fixing your sheet so it is up-to-date again. This includes tracking changes to automatically favoured and non-favoured abilities, any extra fields, and the removal of powers and backgrounds the sheet used.

• Manual abilities (activated via the Manual Abilities house rule) are now shown without name editing box if already on the sheet and filled in. The name can be edited by expanding the ability. This helps improve the clarity of the sheet by removing clutter.

• Added the use of the <enter> key in extra fields lists such as Virtues. This helps with quickly entering several values, You can just type the name, hit enter, type the value, another enter, and continue on with the next item.

• If both the Rated Specialties and the Advanced Training house rule are active, the correct icon will now be displayed while editing the sheet. This improves sheet updating by showing you which sub-abilities are specialties, and which sub-abilities are advanced training ratings.

World of Darkness: Dice Roller

• We have added support for morality rolls to the dice roller for all world of darkness creature types. If the creature type has their morality disabled in the game system configuration, it cannot be rolled.

• We have added support for managed powers and backgrounds to the dice roller.
  • If the powers (disciplines, gifts, etc.) are managed by RPGpad and have a numerical rating, they will automatically show up in the dice roller. If they are set to use charm like powers they won't show up (since they have no rating to add to the dice pool), and if they are set to unmanaged, they will be covered by the newly added support for custom fields (see below).
  • If the backgrounds are managed by RPGpad, they will automatically show up in the dice roller. If they are not, they will be covered by the newly added support for custom fields (see below).

• We have added support for extra fields to the dice roller. This means that virtues, willpower, unmanaged backgrounds and powers, renown, blood pool, etc. Can now all be rolled. If an extra field is of a numerical type (such as dots, number, dots and boxes, a list of ratings, etc.) it will automatically show up in the dice roller.

• (Community Suggestion) Freeform rolls have been shuffled around a bit to prominently feature dice pool and difficulty with automatic successes in the expandable options. Since automatic successes are rare, and changes to difficulty less so, this make freeform rolls a little more streamlined in use.

• Improved the display of the dice pool breakdown to prevent the technically correct, but awkward, "3 Dexterity + -1 Melee" issue for -1 dice or -3 dice abilities. This is now displayed as the more human "3 Dexterity - 1 Melee".

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed the World of Darkness powers listing to correctly uses the creature type term for powers in the "No <powers> listed." message if no disciplines/gifts/etc. are entered by the player.

• Fixed a bug that caused World of Darkness character sheets with legacy attributes to break and have a horde of orcs trample the server. This has been fixed, and legacy attributes now work without breaking things.

• Fixed a bug that caused longer texts in World of Darkness character sheet fields to break the layout in certain configurations. This has been fixed, and longer values for fields like Concept and are now correctly line-wrapped.

• Fixed a bug that caused the order of extra fields on the World of Darkness sheet to change when switching creature types. The order is now correctly preserved for each creature type, even if the order of the same fields differs between creature types.