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v1.2.0: Epic Initiative (Patreon)

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2018-02-01 05:38:27
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2026-06
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 Want to give your heroes a truly epic experience? If you are a patron at the Epic Initiative level, you can now customize your player view with your own colors and fonts, or even apply your own CSS to modify the layout to your heart's content!
Please note that the direct CSS editor is an experimental feature, and changes made to the Player View in the future may affect your custom CSS. I'll keep an eye on how people are using the feature and when I do break your styles, feel free to reach out to me and I'll be happy to provide some guidance.
The main update with this release is the Epic Initiative Player View editor. There are a large number of architectural changes going on behind the scenes that will support forthcoming bug fixes and free features.
Happy DMing!
Update: Added a preview screenshot for Epic Initiative.

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Anonymous

This is dope, I usually have the player view up on a monitor everyone can look at so adjusting the colors for easier viewing will be awesome. I did have another question concerning future updates, can we expect a feature that will allow us to hide the identity of creatures the party is facing? I'm thinking like a nickname line in their statblock that shows instead of their standard name in the player view if filled. I like to make my players figure out what they're fighting which is sometimes hampered by this awesome tool because it gives away the names. I realize I could just change the actual name of the creature but that would lead to it's own series of problems if I forget to change it back and need to find it again later.

Anonymous

I'd like to know if the Commands are now saving to the account. I haven't tried it, but before when I logged out and back in it wouldn't save my saved Command keys.

Anonymous

As some ideas that would improve the app: let us add an image to the player view in the background and then hide the tracker temporarily so we can see the image as part of the Epic Initiative program (this image could be a BM of the area they are fighting or some concept art of a battle scene for added effect), let us make "quick heroes" to add in random NPC's that were made on the spot that only includes the HP and AC for the characters to see, and lastly, let us see the AC of all the heroes. Thanks and I love the program!

Evan Bailey
>>10347424

This should work as expected. Please let me know if you're still having trouble though, thanks!

Evan Bailey
>>10347571

Excellent suggestions, thanks Joseph! Quick Add Combatant is coming by the end of this month. I'll look into your Player View suggestions, I am planning to add more customization options like those to Epic Initiative later on.

Anonymous
>>10347571

Doooope. That way it's just easier to add random monsters or heroes that aren't included already from the Basic Rules.

Anonymous

Letting us add images in the background would definitely make me want to upgrade to the Epic Initiative. Thanks, Evan!

Anonymous

Super excited for this! I don't much about CSS so I'm excited to see what people can do with it. Will we be able to ever add animage as the background? What would be really cool is a 'flash image function'. I have some players who arent too familier with fantasy lore and ofton have to find images , turn my tablet around and show them what a creature looks like. Would be cool to be able to show an image on the screen temporarily!

Evan Bailey
>>9871085

Hi Jamie, you can use the custom css to add a background image. To get started, try adding the following line to yours to point at an image you'd like to use. body#playerview { background-image: url("<a href="http://improved-initiative.com/img/boot-transparent-white.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://improved-initiative.com/img/boot-transparent-white.png</a>"); } Later on, I'll add creature images as another Epic Initiative feature, but I'd like to add some more free features next.

Anonymous

For some reason the colors I am choosing are not showing up. Is there some settings I have to change in chrome to get this to work.

Evan Bailey
>>9872606

You shouldn't need to change any settings. Can you open the Player View window, press f12, and send me a screenshot of what you see?

Anonymous

I got to to work. thank you :).

Anonymous

For those of us who aren't familiar with CSS could you direct us to a webpage/video that could show a few basic commands? I already used that background image and its great, just wanted to know if there is anything else I can do to improve the look of it.