Version 1.1.0 is out. The console now runs on a phone or tablet properly, answers to the keyboard, and knows when an effect ends. It is still a browser tab, it still needs no account, and your fight still lives where you left it.
The console in your pocket
On a phone, the console is three screens you swipe between: the tracker, the stat block, and the controls. A bottom bar jumps straight to any of them, and tapping a creature in the tracker slides over to its stat block. The header’s panels open as sheets, and the three add buttons collapse into one.
Every control has a finger-sized target on a touch screen. A mouse keeps the dense layout it had, and form fields take a size iOS Safari will not zoom the page for.
A tablet held portrait gets the phone’s layout whole, iPad Pro included. A small tablet held landscape puts the tracker beside the stat block, with the controls and the log below. From a laptop’s width up, the three-column console is unchanged.
Run it from the keyboard
The other half of this release stays at the desk. The console can now be run from the
keyboard: N advances the turn, J and K walk the tracker, D lands in the selected
creature’s hit points, E applies an effect, G rolls a group save, C casts a spell.
A, Shift+A, and Ctrl+A cover the three adds, and Enter applies whatever dialog
is open.
Press Shift+/ for the full list, or find it behind the gear. Every shortcut is
rebindable in Settings, under Keyboard. A key another command holds is refused
by name, and the keys the browser needs stay off limits.
Effects end when the rules say
An effect can now be hung on a turn: the start or the end of one, on any creature on the board. “Charmed until the start of its next turn” is something the Apply effect box can say, and it clears itself at the right moment.
or its next roll rides on top of any duration and ends the effect on the first roll it changes. It replaces “This turn / next attack”, which read like a turn and never cleared for a player’s own rolls. An effect saved with the old option still works.
Rolls now spend what they should everywhere. Group saves, concentration checks, and a creature’s own stat-block rolls used to leave a spent effect sitting on the row. Vicious Mockery, Latchwork, Guiding Bolt, Guidance, and Resistance carry the bounds the rules give them, re-read against both editions.
Effects, durations, and the box that stages them are written up in the handbook.
Casting
A spell resolved by an attack roll applies its effect. Guiding Bolt left nothing on the target it hit; Flame Blade, Spiritual Weapon, Arcane Hand, Arcane Sword, and Vampiric Touch left no reminder on the caster. All six land now.
A saved character’s spell attack bonus and spell save DC are filled in from the class, level, and ability scores you transcribed. A multiclass caster, a subclass caster, and an anonymous character leave the field to you, as before. Casting has its own handbook page.
Campaign notes
A campaign now carries notes: markdown, private to you, for the threads and hooks that are not house rules. They sit in the campaign form and on the campaign card, where you can write them without opening the form. Click, type, click away. Characters have had notes like these; now the game itself does. Campaigns are written up in the handbook.
In the books
Brood & Bloom’s Reliquary Imago and Tallow Imago now say where their size comes from. Both open from a husk built around a much smaller larva: the case holds the body, and the wings come out folded and open as the moth rises. The sizes themselves are unchanged.
Smaller things
- A condition chip in a resolver reads as a state: lit when the target has it, and tapping a lit one clears it.
- A picker says what it just added.
- The compendium follows the same layout switch as the fight.
Where to start
If you have never opened it, getting started runs one fight from an empty board to the summary at the end. If you already run OpenFray, open the console on your phone and swipe.
Every version so far, and what each one changed, is in the changelog.