I’m particularly excited about this one: a new version v1.4 of the DM Helper is now available: Animated Maps and Video Playback are supported!!! Use animated maps/videos with all your favorite other features, including Fog of War, battles, Player Window rotation, awesome cut scenes and full-screen mode (press that F key)!

In the coming weeks, look for some announcements about a special community and partner project to celebrate this new feature.

Specific Release Notes

• Currently, this release is only for Windows. MacOS is coming very soon!
• Please be careful and save regularly. We’ve done what we can for testing, but there may still be a few surprises waiting for you to find them

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