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Dawnsbury Days 2.36

New features:
  • Character builder: The default character portrait is no longer Annacoesta but rather an obvious placeholder.
  • Free encounter mode: The minimap in free encounter mode now shows monsters on the minimap based on difficulty.
  • Performance: The game no longer calculates tactics usefulness for player characters unless they're confused.
  • Rules: Added the "Create a Diversion" skill action.
  • Rules: Added the option to release a grappled creature as a free action.
  • Rules: Added the option to use Administer First Aid to stop bleeding.
  • Rules: Added the option to use Administer First Aid to treat poison.
  • Spells (True Strike): True Strike now displays preview of both rolls, and also whether it applies to a roll.
  • System: Steam Remote Play Together is now enabled. This allows you to invite a friend and essentially screen-share the game with them, sharing keyboard and mouse input and the screen. The game has no special support for this "multiplayer". You will still both see the same screen, but it is now possibly to play a campaign or encounters cooperatively over the internet this way.
  • User interface: Roll descriptions from the combat log now visually display your roll on the probability chart.


Modding:
  • Modding: "Difficulty doesn't affect this encounter." now also happens within story mode for modded adventure paths that don't have difficulty levels.
  • Modding: Added a textbox for change notes text to Workshop Uploader.
  • Modding: Added nullable reference type annotations to QEffect and some other types to assist in determining whether a parameter can be null.
  • Modding: Added the ability to add cutscenes to custom encounters. See the readme file in CustomMaps folder for details.
  • Modding: Added the ability to use custom voice file for narration in custom adventure paths (the attribute name is "voiceFile").
  • Modding: Added the properties CampaignState.Tags and CampaignState.PerDayTags to allow mods to track information through a campaign, including across a long rest.
  • Modding: Updated the player profile so that Steam Workshop custom maps are saved relative to the Steam Workshop folder instead of the computer root.
  • System: Upgraded the version of many system libraries.


Bugfixes:
  • Character builder: Changing an ancestry could result an illegal character with wrong or even impossible ability boosts.
  • Character builder: If you retrained out of a spell that you had selected as a signature spell, you would retain that spell as a signature spell.
  • Classes (Fighter): Many Strike modifiers displayed in the rules block twice.
  • Classes (Fighter, Monk): Primary unarmed attacks should be excluded from options when making a Sudden Charge or Flurry of Blows while you're wielding a two-handed weapon.
  • Classes (Kineticist, Fighter): Abilities that allow you to Stride but not Step (such as Sudden Charge or Four Winds) erroneously failed to display a "provokes" indicator on the first tile.
  • Classes (Magus): You could enter Arcane Cascade even if you were already in Arcane Cascade.
  • Classes (Monk): You can now exit monk stances voluntarily as a free action from the Other maneuvers menu.
  • Classes (Psychic): The Psi Burst should be able to deal mental damage, not just bludgeoning damage.
  • Classes (Ranger): If you didn't command an animal companion, it didn't take persistent damage.
  • Classes (Sorcerer): Blood magic triggered when you Sustain a Spiritual Weapon effect.
  • Classes (Sorcerer): Blood magic triggered when you cast a spell from a scroll.
  • Classes (Strategist): Devise a Stratagem now also prints the rolled number into the combat log.
  • Encounters (Fog-Infested Cavern): The demon uses Swipe even while restrained.
  • Encounters (S1E5): The Candelabra's text no longer says that you will "win the game."
  • Encounters (S2E1): ||Morning Dewdrop complains about paralysis even if you direct her to flee before her first turn.||
  • Encounters (S3E3): The Golden Candelabra no longer has HP equal to the number of blades of grass in Sweet Apple Acres, and instead has a more reasonable 500 HP.
  • Encounters (S3E4): The demon sometimes used Stride instead of Sneak improperly if the path to the plotted target goes via tumble through or around enemies with AoO.
  • Encounters (S4E1): Animal companions and summoned creatures got left behind in the cutscene where the Dawnsbury Four are ejected from the Daybreak.
  • Encounters (S4E5): Animal companions and summoned creatures didn't get healed to full when the gods heal up the party.
  • Free encounter mode: The free encounter mode showed false threat categories for encounters with difficulty differences.
  • Items: You can could put armor into your hand during an encounter.
  • Monsters (Dark Poet): The monster shouldn't summon fire elementals.
  • Monsters (Venomous Snake): The Venomous Snake had a sting attack instead of a bite attack.
  • Monsters (mephits): Mephit Breath Weapons had incorrect damage type traits, notably preventing their breath weapons from being used underwater.
  • Rules (Delay): You could incorrectly use Delay to get rid of the Stunned condition.
  • Rules: Disarm was not an Athletics Trained-only action.
  • Rules: Feint was not a Deception Trained-only action.
  • Rules: Stunned and Slowed did not stack.
  • Spells (Bless, Bane): Bless and Bane also affected chests, doors and mindless creatures.
  • Spells (Calm Emotions): The ability to sustain calm emotions suddenly disappeared after one of the calmed creatures was banished as a result of the creature that summoned them dying.
  • Spells (Depress Courage): The spell affected also allies, not just enemies.
  • Spells (Heal): 3-action heal against non-undead should not break invisibility.
  • Spells (True Strike): True Strike did not expire after your first attack roll.
  • System: Fixed many possible null reference exceptions.
  • Tactics: Enemy will no longer attempt to cast Fear on a Protector Tree.
  • Text: Fixed multiple typos throughout the game.
  • Text: Fixed that Touch of Undeath did not show the proper reason for halving heals.
  • Text: The creature in S4E2 dealt 2d8+4+2 damage when it's elite (instead of +6).
  • User interface: On low resolution, the text of +1 striking handwraps of mighty blows and some items ran into the gold cost.
  • User interface: Used up prepared spells and spontaneous spell slots didn't show up in stat block during medium rest.

Dawnsbury Days 2.35 [Spiritual Weapon crash bug fix]

  • Fixed a bug where the game would crash if you had your mouse over a Spiritual Weapon or Flaming Sphere as it disappears when you don't Sustain the spell.

Dawnsbury Days 2.34 [Steam Workshop Uploader bugfix]

  • Fixed a regression where Dawnsbury Days 2.33 caused the Steam Workshop Uploader to no longer work.

Dawnsbury Days 2.33

This bugfix patch fixes the most critical crash bugs and progression-breaking bugs that were discovered yesterday.

  • Encounters (S1E5): Fixed that the rules engine would crash if a Lantern Archon took persistent damage.
  • Encounters (S2E5): Fixed that you didn't lose the game if Morning Dewdrop dies during this level, which caused the game to crash during the closing cutscene.
  • Story mode: Fixed a progression-breaking bug where retraining your character in Dawnsbury, then saving and reloading while your character was incomplete could eject you back into level up which you could not complete.
  • System: Added the list of loaded Steam Workshop mods to the telemetry information that the game sends home if telemetry is allowed, in the hope that this will help debug crashes.

Dawnsbury Days is now released!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2693730/Dawnsbury_Days/

We're finally here! Dawnsbury Days has just been released. It contains the following features:

  • A complex OGL-based rule system which makes for strong strategic gameplay
  • 12 classes, from the Fighter to the Wizard to the Kineticist, each with different play patterns
  • 110+ feats and 70+ spells to further customize your characters
  • 20+ encounters in the main story-driven adventure path, and 10+ additional scenarios in free encounter mode
  • Character level cap is 4.
  • A story of childhood friends braving their first serious challenges in adventuring
  • Support for custom maps, encounters and portraits
  • Support for custom mods to add new ancestries, feats, rules and more


Let me show you some screenshots!

First, this is what the main battle screen looks like in the final version:



The second most important part of the game is the advanced character builder that lets you build a variety of characters (I'll repeat: 12 classes, 110+ feats, 70+ spells):



There is also a very large number of items — weapons, armor, consumables and other useful things you can take with you on the adventure:



Of course, the main mode is the Story mode which contains an extended campaign that takes you from level 1 to level 4:



And finally, the game supports modding. Already 17 (!) mods are available from the Steam Workshop, including, for example, DawnniExpanded, which adds an additional class, 35+ additional feats, 7 additional spells, dozens of new items and more:



If you were following the development of Dawnsbury Days over the past year, thank you very much for your support and interest! If you're here for the first time, welcome and thank you for reading this post! You can learn more about Dawnsbury Days on its Steam Store page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2693730/Dawnsbury_Days/