Campaign Manager

Devlog

• Mystery on the Space Station
  October 01, 2024 by kamoly

  Another example campaign has been added to Campaign Manager, this time with a science fiction setting - Mystery on the Space Station. The party has been tasked to get a device produced on a distant sp... Continue reading

  
• Sorting / Volume Control
  July 19, 2024 by kamoly

  Some new big features are on the way, but this update just has a handful of quality-of-life improvements. Mostly involving better sorting in drop down lists and volume control... Continue reading

  
• Game Mode (Sample Story)
  May 25, 2024 by kamoly

  Game Mode was introduced a couple months ago. In addition to a few new features and bug fixes in this version, there is now a full interactive story to demonstrate how it can be used. An important pac... Continue reading

  
• Game Mode (Interactive Story)
  April 06, 2024 by kamoly

  Game Mode is now available! Set up an interactive story with encounters. Each encounter can have an image, text, music, and navigation items to link to other encounters. Variables can be set in naviga... Continue reading

  
• Coming Soon: Game Mode
  February 29, 2024 by kamoly

  Coming soon, Game Mode! Create interactive stories with branching paths and be able to play it directly in Campaign Manager. Use items in Encounters to build out the game world - including music, text... Continue reading

  
• Printing Maps
  January 30, 2024 by kamoly

  Lately, instead of using a computer screen for my DnD players, I've been using printed maps and notes. The print feature in Campaign Manager has come in very handy for this. Something it couldn't do w... Continue reading

  
• More Encounter Maps
  December 29, 2023 by kamoly

  This update has 8 additional encounter maps bringing the total up to 20. And for new features, the player view now has options to "Fill to Width" or "Fill To Height" to give more options on how encoun... Continue reading

  
• Encounter (Battle) Maps
  November 28, 2023 by kamoly

  New for this month are encounter (battle) maps! They're intended for use with the player view on a second screen where they can have optional grid lines, rotations, and scaled in a variety of ways, bu... Continue reading

  
• UI Improvements
  October 18, 2023 by kamoly

  This new update has UI improvements in many parts of the software. - Encounter notes now support HTML tags and can be put in a "View Mode" where they are rendered using those tags. - Improvements to c... Continue reading

  
• Printing
  September 24, 2023 by kamoly

  The Printing ability is complete! It is now easy to get paper versions of encounters and campaign assets so you can play without needing a computer. If you have a PDF printing device available (defaul... Continue reading

  
• Upcoming Feature: Printing
  August 28, 2023 by kamoly

  A new version is not yet available, but the upcoming big feature update is printing! I expect to finish it next month. The weather has been so good over the summer, my players and I have been playing... Continue reading
• More Names
  July 20, 2023 by kamoly

  Straightforward update this past month has been primarily additional content: Thousands of real world names of lakes, mountains, and rivers have been added for the random name generator. Also some imp... Continue reading

  
• Monster Formatting / Links
  June 10, 2023 by kamoly

  The previous release included support for HTML style tags in the description of assets. For this release, every SRD 5.1 monster type has its description updated to take advantage of the new feature. I... Continue reading

  
• Asset Formatting / Links
  May 17, 2023 by kamoly

  The update for this past month is support for HTML style tags in the descriptions of assets. This enables much nicer formatting of the text in assets so they're easier to read and linking one asset to... Continue reading

  
• Mod Support
  April 16, 2023 by kamoly

  The big update this time is Mod support! At startup, Campaign Manager with look in a \Mods folder for dll files it can consume to extend its functionality. Mods can currently: - Add buttons to the mai... Continue reading

  
• UI Improvements
  March 21, 2023 by kamoly

  No big updates this month (some are coming soon). However, small UI improvements were made throughout the application, especially for engagements. - Adding monsters for encounters / combat evaluations... Continue reading

  
• More Ambience Music
  February 22, 2023 by kamoly

  Not too much to talk about on this update, but the number of atmospheric songs is increase from 13 to 42. There are more songs for standard fantasy role playing but also some for futuristic / sci fi r... Continue reading
• A Better Combat Evaluator
  January 27, 2023 by kamoly

  Last month I mentioned populating standard damage attacks, special damage attacks, and healing for all 240 player/NPC character types (level 1 through 20 of fighter, druid, paladin, wizard, etc.). Thi... Continue reading

  
• Building a Better Combat Evaluator: Player Stats
  December 29, 2022 by kamoly

  Although I've gotten better at balancing combat for my DnD players over time, it's still very difficult. I've found the monster "Challenge Ratings" to be mediocre guidelines at best. For a combat to b... Continue reading

  
• Ready To Use Character Sheets / Portraits
  December 02, 2022 by kamoly

  For Campaign Manager, 240 characters were made available - from levels 1 to 20 of Barbarians, Bards, Clerics, Druids, Fighters, Monks, Paladins, Rangers, Rogues, Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards. Howe... Continue reading

  
• Ready To Use Characters - Continued
  October 30, 2022 by kamoly

  The update last month included ready to use characters: level 1 to 20 of barbarians, bards, clerics, druids, fighters, monks, paladins, rangers, rogues, sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards. This past mon... Continue reading

  
• Ready To Use Characters
  October 01, 2022 by kamoly

  This one took a bit of time, but every class in the SRDv5.1 documentation (Barbarians, Bards, Clerics, Druids, Fighters, Monks, Paladins, Rangers, Rogues, Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards) now have re... Continue reading

  
• Polish and Tooltips
  August 31, 2022 by kamoly

  Improvements for the past month have been polishing up the user interface so it's more pleasant to look at and adding tooltips to every control so it's easier for new users. Rogue and Bard sample NPCs... Continue reading

  
• Continuous Canvas
  July 21, 2022 by kamoly

  Many small improvements have been made throughout the software, but the major update this release is the "continuous canvas". There is no longer any need to manually define the size of the canvas wher... Continue reading

  
• Player View
  June 15, 2022 by kamoly

  Latest new feature is the ability to display battle maps on a second screen for players to see / have their character minis on. On the game master side, there is a "Player View Control" form to select... Continue reading

  
• Icons and Snapping
  May 19, 2022 by kamoly

  The latest update to Campaign Manager has 2 significant improvements, both UI related: The first change is purely visual, icons have been added to all main menu items to give it more of a polished loo... Continue reading

  
• Name Generator
  April 20, 2022 by kamoly

  A Name Generator feature has been added that pulls from a list of hundreds of thousands of options to randomly generate names for people, towns, shops, and ships. Some names are randomly pulled togeth... Continue reading

  
• Shadows, Dice, and Search
  March 25, 2022 by kamoly

  Three significant improvements have been made to Campaign Manager for this latest release: 1. The appearance of encounters and regions has been improved with rounded corners and drop shadows. 2. A new... Continue reading

  
• Sample Campaign Added
  February 23, 2022 by kamoly#sample campaign

  A sample one-shot table top campaign has been added to Campaign Manager to demonstrate many of its features and how it can be used. The campaign involves a mystery of several villagers that have gone... Continue reading