Happy Holidays (Patreon)

Another year is almost over and this community is getting bigger and bigger each day. I want to thank you all for your support and give a little end of the year update as well as a glimpse at what to expect next year.

2024

When 2024 started HP Tracker was still in a very early state. There were only SRD statblocks for 5e, no statblock popover, no dice roller, no initiative sorting, no limited abilities, ...

Tabletop Almanac hadn't been released and there was no way to create your own statblocks. Looking back it feels like a totally different Extension than it is now. Which might be to the complete redesign I finished in July (and spawned a few Forks so they could keep using the old version).

The progress made during this year was more than I expected and it couldn't have been done without the incredible support of you people. Over 100 different people decided to support me throughout the year and over 560 people are currently subscribed to this patreon page. The discord is growing, and thanks to the awesome people there, I sometimes even get to sleep during the night because they already answer the questions of newcomers.

The latest feature making it to TA and GMG were markdown support for custom statblocks and advanced dice buttons. Where you can now add stat modifiers like 3d10 + STR to create a dynamic dice button. And also add dicebuttons to markdown elements like lists or tables

Now

As written in the last few posts I'm still working on Custom Items, having covid and the flu back to back really messed up my scheduling, but it's getting really close. Equipment can already be added to statblocks in my local development environment. The only thing missing to make it public is having GMG apply those item stats to the statblocks.

2025

 After this is done there are a few things I also want to add in the first quarter of 2025.

Make loot available on token after they drop to zero

Grouping statblocks together (creating and adventuring party with a list of the parties equipment and more)

quick loot generation on tokens

quick sync for DnDB character sheets (mostly already done)

add a list of standard items so the can quickly be equipped

Beyond

This is obviously not everything that is planned. I found a way to sync DnD Beyond stats live (like HP) but this needs a more robust server setup. I want to finalize DnD Character sheets and I also want to add more game systems (Draw Steel and Daggerheart and maybe even Cosmer). But this takes a lot of time and needs to be done properly, so I don't really know when this will be finished. But the journey is far from over and I'm super excited to have you all by my side!

Cheers Josh

PS: to get you into the holiday spirit I added three public statblocks, for Santa Clause, Rudolf and Buddy the Elf:

https://www.tabletop-almanac.com/statblocks/e5/buddytheelf-ta

https://www.tabletop-almanac.com/statblocks/e5/rudolftherednosereindeer-ta

https://www.tabletop-almanac.com/statblocks/e5/santaclaus-ta