Add markdown support so we can make the traits and actions look like they are formatted in the book

It would be super useful if the app could track the failures and successes on death rolls

Some columns do not scroll, notably the middle and right column.

I would be willing to work on this and provide a pull request sometime in the future.

If the button "Run Initiative" is pressed multiple times and the player initiative is not confirmed after the first time this will stack the "run initiative" procedure.
Example: "Run initiative" is pressed. Input for a player character appears. "Run initiative" is pressed one more time. Now you need confirm the player initiative 2 times to be able to continue.

Proposal:

• block the "run initiative" command untill all user inputs are complete.

or

• do not stack initiative and only handle single input for initiative per player

Or just disable this behavior on the current setting

I can not objectively quantify this, but the stat block seems cramped and kind of unorganized. For example, a name like "skills" is imediately followed by the accompanying text. Maybe something like aligning the text on the right or adding a little bit of margin or line breaks could make the stat block look more readable.

I would be willing to work on this and provide a pull request some time in the future.

Conditions, with optional durations (so like blinded, 2 rounds). It would be great if it had the list of conditions, but even the ability to just add a condition to a combatant that could track how much time is left on it would be awesome. I would see these as like attached to the combatant, but the duration may be tied to the initiative of the combatant who added the effect (like the wizard casts a spell that causes fear, so the duration is tracked on his initiative, but it's attached to the enemies who are feared.

The problem seems to be a misplaced "display: flex" property.

I would be willing to work on this and provide a pull request some time in the future.

If you use the hide enemies until combat starts option, it works the first time, but if you start a second encounter, they are immediatly visible. Given that starting an encounter resets the enemies, it should rest the hidden feature too.

This is an issue with the library filter

It happened multiple times for me that I clicked on something, the user poll queue at the bottom showed up and I didn't even notice it.

It should be made bigger and stand out a little more.

I would be willing to work on this and provide a pull request some time in the future.

Made a PR that should close this issue

As mentioned, my combats are larger then the player screen. Using chromecast I play it out on a monitor, and I tried to resize the screen so we could see more using zoom on chrome.

well, whatever technique is being used to size the player screen means that even though you can zoom in and out for all the elements surrounding the center of the screen, that stays the exact same size. Kinda frusterating

title says it all.

I would like to be able to record the state of the game between sessions by just saving.

Spell durations (or just effect durations) So I can track how long say a web spell will be there, or how long a wall of fire will be around (or even durations of just environmental things. Same deal as above, it would be nice if there was a list of spells, but this can be solved by just letting me type in the effect and assign it to an initiative and a duration.

My combats are larger then a single screen on the player screen. I project a player screen to a chromecast on a monitor at the table. I have to go manually scroll it as the initiative changes. It would be much better if the combat auto centered the current combatant.

Makes it hard to use the feat Improved Initiative. How ironic.

on a practical basis, many GMs, myself included will eventually tell the players the AC of monsters as their attacks narrow it down. It would be useful if you could click on something to reveal the AC of monsters where they've narrowed it down so that they don't have to keep asking (telling one player doesn't necessarily mean they all hear it, and if it's on the board, I think they will quickly get used to looking there)

Source field tells the user where the creature came from in the case it's OGL content not from the 5th edition SRD

Note. Source is in the data for the PR I made of OGL data

The SRD contains sections titled "Reaction" as opposed to "Action".

Example: Shrieker

When I add several players, then export them to a json, I see when I reload them (or look in the JSON file itself) that one player is missing. It doesn't seem to change depending on the number of characters you start with.

It would be cool if there was an ability to just add boxes on a character, say like it's own field where you could track checkboxes that can be reset by a long or short rest.

This would imply that there would also be a "long rest" and "short rest" button that resets these checkboxes.

it would be kinda helpful to track hit dice used in a short rest this way too.

the ability to have a counter that you can set to any initiative that will count down and disappear when it's done

from daren_sf
On my iPhone Chrome was a bit better in that it showed the icons on the left side tabs. Still no creatures listed, default party members, etc.
It seems to be a display / visual thing as when I delete it's asking me if I want to delete all creatures, even though none are visible.

I should be using some sort of require syntax to pull in dependencies instead of the simple concat logic. The build recently broke because a newer version of socket.io moved all their libraries into ./dist/

For example, you click two times (maybe by accident) on "set initiative" for a combatant. Or maybe you click on "set initiative", remember that you did not want that and click "rename combatant" instead.

In any case, you're left with dealing with the first dialog, even if you only wanted the last one.

I don't really think a queue makes sense for those kind of actions, when you click a button, as a user, you want to immediately perform the action that you clicked on, and not click on multiple actions to put them in a list and deal with them later.

The question is if there are valid usecases in the app for a user poll queue. Normally I would think of a UserPollQueue when the application is generating requests that have to be answered by the user. Is this the case for Improved Initiative?

I personally have not found any instances of this (which doesn't mean much). As I see it, every usage of the UserPollQueue seems to be a direct response to the user clicking something. If that is true, my suggestion would be to remove the UserPollQueue and replace it with something more direct and blocking, like a modal popup.

Comments welcome.

Having now used improved initiative in an actual game, I've got a couple items I think would be useful.

First off, when I finish a combat, and then move on to the next one, if I select an encounter, it wipes out all the PCs. I tried to use the app to keep track of PC damage, but because of this, the damage PCs had needed to be written down between encounters.

It would be better if when adding an encounter, it only cleared enemies.

it would be nice to be able to have the list be able to be broken down by say monster type, CR, and ecology

This endpoint will provide a means for tools like Kobold Fight Club to provide users with a one-click option to start encounters built in another tool. Where possible, it should attach stat blocks for OGL creatures, and make placeholders for player characters and non OGL creatures.

When rewinding a turn, the applied notes with an associated timer will not re-appear if the timer ended with the change of turn.
Example:
-Actors-
Player
Monster

Round 1
-Top of initiative -> Player Turn 1
Player1, poisons Monster until the end of their next turn. DM applies timed tag that will end after Monster Turn 1.
-Next turn -> Monster Turn 1
Monster is poisoned [and misses its attack due to disadvantage]
-Next turn -> Player Turn 2
DM realises that Monster has an ability to remove poison from self or friendly target.
-Previous turn -> Monster Turn 1
Monsters tag is not back.

So it may need to be a fork, or just a config variuable, but it would be nice if this could handle pathfinder too.

I happen to have all the monsters from the srd (bestiary 1-4 as the npc codex) already in a database/json format, so I could greatly help with the import of info.

from https://www.reddit.com/r/improvedinitiative/comments/5ivzsd/how_to_insert_carriage_returns_within_attribute/

Various things can give players advantage on initiative rolls, e.g. UA Ranger's Natural Explorer, or Sentinel Shield magic item.

Be great if we would flag players as having such a condition, and it be included in the initiative rolling.

Happy to look at adding this myself, but want to check it was something that was wanted by others.

Thanks.

It would be super awesome if there was a log of what took place. Recording damage, addition and removal of notes, etc.

It would help to locate mistakes that were made in game (a player disputes something), as well as for people who like to write up notes/blog posts about what happened in a game session.

I understand and agree with why you only have the OGL creatures available publicly, but would there be any way to import the full list for personal use? Like these files available for d20 Flight apps?
https://github.com/ceryliae/DnDAppFiles

Note. Description in the data for the PR I made of OGL data

If the localhost:80 already have some other web application attached to (for example a web service running on IIS) the "node server.js" command will not run the app and gives following error:

events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: listen EACCES 0.0.0.0:80
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1012:11)
    at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1035:20)
    at Server._listen2 (net.js:1239:19)
    at listen (net.js:1288:10)
    at Server.listen (net.js:1384:5)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\dev\GitHub\improved-initiative\server.js:111:19)
    at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:458:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:417:12)

Quick fix for anyone confronting this problem:
find in the server.js file
var port = process.env.PORT || 80;
and change it for example to
var port = process.env.PORT || 88;
now you will find the improved-initiative on http://localhost:88/

From email:

I've started an encounter with 4 Goblins and 4 PCs. When Initiative isrolled, the Goblins get +4, shouldn't they have +2 as their Dex is 14?