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Made to Order Software Corporation is proud to announce the 1.2 release
of Turn Watcher, an Initiative and Effects Tracker...and more!
Version 1.2 now supports spell and other effect tracking. A optional new
window appears at the bottom of the main window that allows you to add,
edit and remove effects for the currently highlighted combatant. When an
effect expires on the current combatant's turn, you are alerted and
asked if you wish to delete the expired effect.
You may also add effects to multiple characters at once by highlighting
them, then clicking the "A" button. Likewise, you may purge all effects
by highlighting multiple characters and clicking the "X" button.
Use effects to give characters temporary hit points in one of two ways:
you may enter temporary hit points (as per the D&D 3.5 rules, where
damage is removed first from the temporary hit point pool, then from the
regular hit point pool) or as a hit point boost (hit points are added to
the main pool, but removed when the effect either expires or is
deleted--this works well with the 3.5e "Bear's Endurance" spell).
You may also delay the onset of an effect for any number of rounds. For
example, in the 3.5e rules, the Bard ability "Inspire Courage" can be
activated by a combatant on her turn, but won't kick in until the
following round--Turn Watcher makes this easy by allowing you to specify
a "Start In" value--in this case, enter "1." On the bard's next turn,
the effect kicks in and you are notified by a pop-up window.
We also greatly improved the initiative tracking feature such that when
new combatants are either Added, Duplicated or Imported while in rounds,
initiative is automatically calculated for the new combatants, and they
are inserted into proper initiative order. However, you can still move
them around with the "Move in Initiative" feature. You should notice a
generate speed increase in general.
When a combatant is moved in initiative order (either manually or via
Delay/Ready actions), its entry line is highlighted in cyan.
This helps avoid confusion when the initiative roll appears to be out of order (but
isn't).
Turn Watcher supported on all of the following systems:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP
- Linux Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linspire, Debian
- Linux FedoraCore 5, RedHat, Mandrake
- Other Linux distributions
In a future release, we will be targeting the Mac OS platform (10.4
users only). We will keep you informed!
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