Active Effects

when time runs out they are suppose to go away.

I will investigate!

 

The effects vanish for me. Seems that the round counting ends BEFORE the effector's (not effectee) subsequent turns.

But the problem I'm seeing is worse. In the effect I am saying to subtract 1d4 from HP each round. It shows up properly in effects and disappears after 2 rounds, but only the original 1d4 is ever subtracted. To eliminate ambiguity of dice roll I changed it to a static -5 HP per round and still the ongoing active effect is just displayed but is never applied.

 

I vote to get this working soon. According to the "d20Pro Spell System, The Pros & The Cons" blog entry, d20Pro will keep track of how long to apply the +1 to all attacks rolled by each icon that the spell system targeted, yet when you specify ongoing damage, the damage is only applied once. Of course, GMs who read that blog or who see the +1 attack bonus ongoing will assume that the damage works ongoing too... especially since the Active Effects listing indicates that it is having an effect. (I haven't actually tested that what the blog says actually works). Maybe at least throw up a pop-up to remind the GM when to re-apply damage manually. Now, the only indication that the GM gets that it's time to re-apply ongoing damage is that the round counter for that effect ticks down (or the whole effects entry disappears in the last round). Watching that round counter every turn is more trouble than doing the whole thing on paper.

 

But say your effect is to do 1d4+1 damage each round for 3 rounds. Yes, a pop-up or notation would be great at the end of the 3rd round, but the GM should also get some kind of indication to apply this variable damage in rounds 1 and 2.

 

Getting somewhat off-topic, but since the upcoming work will also involve spell management, please support counts on spell records instead of cluttering the lists with duplicate entries.

 

Right. I can't think how anybody could prefer cluttering up their inventory with multiple identical entries now. But when and if spell entries actually have an association to spell effects (now this association has to be done manually with every spell invocation), I guess that different prepared instances of a single spell could have distinctive attributes, but I don't recall having come across that use case.

 

Alchemist's Fire is a real example of this. The first 1d6 is straight forward enough and can be modeled as a regular attack (touch range attack) with 1d6. But based on what I've read here and elsewhere, there is no way for d20Pro to assist with remembering to apply another 1d6 one round in the future.