Dragonlance D&D Game Blog

Seems tis the season for projects to go belly up. Last week the UpWorks KS was shutdown, with a note saying that it would probably never be revived.  This week is word that Dungeonscape, the Dungeons and Dragons 5e online toolset from Trapdoor Technologies, was cancelled by Wizards of the Coast, and that the existing beta would be shut down shortly. Dungeonscape, originally announced as Project Morningstar, seemed to be on track for a 2014, or early 2015 release, and while they only had a character creator available for the beta, the application had received high praise from those who used it. Prior to this announcement, there was no indication that the project was in any jeopardy of being released.  This marks yet another failure of Wizards to release software in a timely manner for their table top games going all the way back to second edition. Second edition software, released manny years after the hardback edition of the rules, was plagued with content bugs and included a ...

One of my favorite tools as a DM is the Dungeon Tiles Mapper (DTM). This handy app was previously featured on the WotC website, but the creator retained ownership of the product. Since that time, it was revised into a 2.0.0 version and has now found a new home and is the focus of a Yahoo Group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dungeon_tiles/ ). In addition to hosting the latest version, the group also houses additional tile sets for the app, and a lively discussion board. While I've been working with the tool for some time (my maps for the mines at Brightstone Keep were created using the DTM), there has been a consistent issue with the product (known as "sticky tiles"). I've recently focus my professional talents as a web developer to solve this issue and posted an update to fix this issue. If you use DTM, please consider joining the Yahoo Group, as well as adding this update to your version of DTM. If you are new to the DTM, now is a good time to check it out.