DM Helper v1.3 Released!


A new version v1.3 of the free DM Helper is now available for both Windows and MacOS!

Key Features

Presentation of all tool content in a Player's Window. This can be shown to players on an external monitor or shared via streaming tools for either face-to-face or ongoing games

  • Full battle support including battle maps with player and monster icons, initiative and hit point tracking, area effects, mass saving throws/damage
  • Map visualization, in or out of battles, including fog of war, zooming and an in-map pointer for highlighting items
  • A detailed bestiary, pre-filled with all open-source SRD monsters
  • A campaign structure for build-up of adventures, encounters, maps, locations, party members and NPCs.
  • A quick reference to descriptions of actions/bonus actions/reactions, environmental issues and conditions
  • A reference including all SRD equipment tables
  • A campaign clock for tracking time and date throughout adventures
  • Animation of scrolling text over a background for easy cut-scene creation

Updates in v1.3

  • Plenty of bug-fixes based on your feedback
  • Rotating publish window for maps and battles
  • Bestiary Import/Export
  • FoW editing: Area delete and anti-aliasing ("smoothing")
  • Known/Hidden mechanics added for PCs and NPCs as well as monsters
  • "Import Character...". To import dndbeyond characters, open the character, add "/json" to the link and then copy and paste everything into the dialog. Basic stats are imported.

Files

DM Helper MacOS release v1.3.zip 63 MB
Sep 26, 2019
DM Helper Windows 64-bit release v1.3.zip 46 MB
Sep 26, 2019

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Comments

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Came across two bugs.

1. The Random Market. When I first launch the program the Random Market works fine. When I load a campaign though it goes blank as if it lost its link with the xml file.

2. The Beastiary. Everything works but it deosn't hold information in the Skills/Saves field. Anything I put there disapears. I didn't see another method for entering Skills and Saves and ended up working around it by writing directily to the xml. Then the values showed up properly though i noticed that DMHelper did reorder them in the xml for some reason. 

I like to close on a positive though and the more I use this program the more helpful it seems to be so keep up the good work.

Hey great, thanks for the feedback! Will be sure to look into these things asap and let you know.

Which version are you using and on PC or Mac? The Bestiary issue might be already fixed, but I'm not sure when that was. The random market thing sounds very interesting and luckily probably very easy to fix...

Sorry, should have included that in the first place.

At any rate the About screen says

Application Version: 1.3

Supported Bestiary Version: 2.1

Running Windows 10 ver. 1903

Great, thanks - one last request: can you send the log file "dmhelper.log" to me at info@dmhelper.net? That might help narrow down the problem...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ddx4LcnoS_XZ2sAtacqUxIMQBQ-T19P/view?usp=shari...