Progress, the near future, and MPMB off to holiday for two weeks (Patreon)
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As most of you probably know, having the sheets taken down from DMs Guild did a number on the plans I had for version 13 with magic item support. After the takedown the sheets were only available here on Patreon for almost three full months. This led to a lot of people who before got the sheets from DMs Guild to support this Patreon, for which I am very grateful. You all showed me how much you care about this sheet and motivate me to transform the sheet into something that has no copyright issues, while still catering to everybody’s needs. This turned out to take a lot longer than I had hoped, but v12.999 was the end result.
With v12.999 I was once again able to put the sheets online for free (at ENworld for now) and the rapid increase of new Patreon supports has since slowed down considerably. This is good news, because I have always wanted this tool to be available for everybody for free and the Patreon to be just for those people who want to show extra support. So thank you all for the extra support, it is much more than I had ever dreamed!
BacklogI am proud to report that I have finally finished going through the backlog of things that were put on hold while working on v12.999. I know a lot of Sorcerer-tier patrons have had to wait several months for the content they had asked me for. I want to thank all of you for your patience and understanding. If you’re a Sorcerer-tier (or higher) patron and you haven’t gotten all your rewards yet, please let me know, I must have overlooked it!
A lot of you have reported on bugs they found with v12.999 and those bugs have all been fixed in the code, so they will not appear in v13. If you are interested, you can follow the progress on my GitHub repository.
Updated sheets and version numbersPlease note that even though no new numbered version of the sheet has come out since v12.999, the sheets are still being updated in the post here on Patreon and on the Dropbox and Google Drive (for Scholar-tier and higher). With the introduction of v12.999, most of the content of the sheets, all non-SRD content, is no longer part of base-code of the sheets. This means that I can update the content without needing to update the base-code. Thus, the version of the sheet is no longer indicative of what the content of the sheet is. I know this is confusing, so with v13 I will be changing how the versioning works, making it semantic. The version number will then be something like v13.00.01. The first four numbers will be the version of the base code, while the last two will be there to indicate minor changes like the updated content.
For finding out what content the v12.999 sheet uses, go to the Add Extra Materials bookmark and select Import a file with additional material. In the dialog that opens, you will see that a file named 'all-WotC_pub+UA.min.js' has been added with a date in front of it. This date is when the file was added. If the date does no correspond with the most recent date mentioned in this post, your version is not the most recent version.
This file is identical to the one found on the /r/mpmb subreddit top post under All Scripts Combined (Offical + UA) [Minified], which is taken from this GitHub repository. You can also manually update the script by importing it again from the GitHub repository as explained in the reddit post. That way you are sure to have the latest update for the content :)
GoalsThe sudden new arrivals have blown not one, but three goals ($700, $1000, and $2000) out of the water while I was busy getting the sheets up and running again. I hope to make good on my promises, but being only a single person with a job and school (albeit both part-time), I can’t deliver everything at once.
If you have any good idea for the next goal, or even for the $2000 goal that just says ‘something huge’ I’m all ears!Steps for the near future
1) Finish the website
2) Finish a beta version of v13 with magic item support for testing by you, the patrons!
3) Get help from the community to transcribe all the SRD magic items for use with the sheets.
4) Put up a poll with what next minor feature(s) to incorporate in v13.
5) Start working on multi-language support (this will be a project that will take several months, because I will have to rebuild most of the pages of the sheets from scratch).
6) Put up a poll with what next major feature to incorporate.
But first, time for a break!I will be out of the country on holiday and to visit family for the next two weeks, so I won’t be very fast responding to comments, messages, or posts and probably will only be able to do so on my phone.