v2.0.8: Persistent Characters (Patreon)

Hello DMs!

Welcome, at last, to Improved Initiative v2.0! There are some big changes in this release, which has been in the works since September.

You'll first notice the visual refresh of the app. The updated colors, typography, landing page, and more are all courtesy of the heroic Ryan Murray. Thank you so much Ryan!

The 2.0 release includes an overhaul of how Player Characters (now just called Characters) work. Here's what has changed:

• Characters remember their current hit points across encounters.
• You can store persistent notes on a Character, to track long term resources and conditions.
• When you edit a Character's statblock, it will update it everywhere (both in the current combat and in the library).
• Characters will not be saved with encounters.
• Existing saved encounters will not load Player Characters that were part of the encounter.
• You cannot add multiple copies of the same Character to an encounter.

Some other changes, in no particular order:

• Some bugfixes were provided by Orestis Kaparounakis. Thanks!
• When viewing a combatant statblock, its current Alias, HP and Tags will be included.
• Hide/Reveal Combatant was added to Combatant Commands, so you can assign it to a keyboard shortcut
• Additional steps were added to the tutorial to demonstrate multi-select and combatant commands
• Markdown will once again render in statblocks
• The encounter tracker view will no longer append the Encounter Id to its URL.

There are various bugfixes, but the new way Characters work might introduce some weirdness. Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks as always for your continued support and feedback! This release is a huge milestone for the app, so please share it with your friends and fellow players on social media channels.

-Evan

Update 2.0.2: Fixed various bugs reported in the comments thread. This release had a quality issue- I'm sorry about that; I hope it hasn't disrupted any games. Thanks for the help identifying issues!

Update 2.0.3: Bugfixes.

Update 2.0.4: Some bugfixes and improvements on the single-column mobile layout.

Update 2.0.5: Fixed bugs with player view styles and combatant auto-groups.

Update 2.0.6: Bugfixes 

Update 2.0.7: Account tab tweaks.

Update 2.0.8: Fix Statblock editor bug