Crucible Version 0.11.2 - Version 14 Alpha

Good evening everyone, I'm thrilled to have another chunky Crucible system release to share. Version 0.11.2 is another significant update in the 0.11.x series of development for Version 14.

Contributors

Many thanks to the following contributors who added features or improvements as part of this release!

• @roth-michael
• @Streyder
• @Jah-yee

Highlights

• Talent Tree Filter: Search the talent tree by text and filter it by keyword, with every hero and adversary talent now classified by keywords, and animated edges drawn between nodes.
• Talent Tree Animation: A beautiful new shader effect visualizes the network of edges that connect nodes on the talent tree.
• Maintained Effects Rework: Maintained effects become due at the start of your turn and lapse at the end of it unless you pay their Focus cost with the new Maintain action, with a limit on how many effects you may maintain at once.
• Beastmaster: The Beastmaster signature talent is now automated, letting you bond a beast companion of the Air, Land, or Sea which fights alongside you.
• Improved Enricherss: Encounter difficulty tiers with an [[/encounterDifficulty]] enricher, multi-skill and group [[/skillCheck]] enrichers, and extensions of the @Loot enricher, and more.
• Configurable Effect Removal: Action effects can be configured as removable with a fixed or automatically derived removal DC, or as unremovable.

New Features

Combat and Actions

• Overhauled maintained effects. A maintained effect becomes due (suppressed) at the start of your turn and is removed at the end of your turn unless you pay its Focus cost using the new Maintain action. You may maintain a limited number of effects at once (one by default, raised by certain talents), and choose which effect ends when a new maintained action would exceed that limit.
• Implemented the Beastmaster signature talent. Bond Companion creates a companion of the Air, Land, or Sea at half your level, Release Companion parts ways with it, and Exploit Opening lets you make an Accurate Strike against a Flanked target engaged by your companion. Companions gain the Flanking Maneuver and Loyal Protector talents. #1626
• Allowed shields to be tagged as natural weapons, so that creatures with natural defenses satisfy "has a shield" requirements for talents and other mechanics. #1644
• Triggered falling when a Region or Region Behavior change causes a supporting surface to disappear or materialize. #1621
• Skipped the application of a Crucible Action region behavior while the active effect which created it is suppressed. #1659

Encounters and Game Mastering

• Documented encounter difficulty tiers and their threat ratio ranges, and added an [[/encounterDifficulty {threat}]] enricher which displays an encounter's difficulty relative to the current party level. #1636
• Allowed a [[/skillCheck]] enricher to define multiple skills, for individual rolls with a choice of skill or for group skill challenges. #1613
• Added optional description and img parameters to the @Loot enricher, which replace the base item's public description and image. #1637
• Gave the @Loot enricher a rich Crucible tooltip previewing the lootable item. #1638
• Allowed broken to be specified as a bare keyword in the @Loot enricher.
• Allowed the [[/milestone]] enricher to specify an explicit identifier and label.
• Improved the party sheet with better controls for member quantity and milestone tracking. #1646
• Sorted party sheet members with heroes before adversaries, then by highest threat first. #1645

Talent Tree

• Added a Talent Tree Filter for searching talents on the tree by text, with additional filtering fields and a separate playstyle filter. #1651
• Assigned an initial keyword categorization to all hero and adversary talents. #1653
• Replaced the talent tree's connecting lines with a custom shaded mesh which draws animated edges between nodes. #1654

Journals, Chat, and Audio

• Implemented core Crucible chat read-aloud markup which can be shared by downstream adventure modules. #1628
• Refined the Crucible system-provided blockquote and read-aloud styles. #1630
• Allowed @Embed[actorUuid] to be used with hero-type Actors, giving them a featured embed presentation similar to adversaries. #1629
• Excluded the heading of an embedded Actor from the journal table of contents.
• Added a Crucible system framework for footfall audio, ported from Ember. #1635
• Added ice and snow footfall sounds.

Interface and Rules

• Allowed an action's effect to be configured in the Action effect UI as removable, with either a fixed removal DC or one derived from the action's roll when left blank, or as unremovable. #1661
• Consolidated the effect duration value and units into a single row of the Action effect UI.
• Added Rule tags for item quality tiers. #1642
• Added support for the @Rule[dice.dc] tag.
• Replaced anchor-based a.button and a.control controls with <button> elements throughout Crucible sheets. #1660

API Changes

• Added a minimal CrucibleTooltipManager, registered as CONFIG.ux.TooltipManager, which extends the way core tooltips are rendered. Crucible tooltip handling now lives in module/tooltip-manager.mjs, and crucible.api.interaction has been removed. #1657
• Added a system.suppression record to Crucible base Active Effects, allowing an effect to be suppressed for named reasons.
• Added maintained and removable Active Effect properties, CrucibleBaseActiveEffect#getMaintainAction, the resources.focus.maintained limit, and an optional usage.maintainedEffectId for the Maintain action.
• An Action effect's removal DC may now be left undefined at the Action level and is derived when the effect is created; null declares an unremovable effect, and any finite DC grants the removable property. #1661
• Added a framework for talent keywords (system.keywords).
• Structured CrucibleTokenMovementAnimation as the integration point for token movement animation in downstream modules, and aligned per-footstep material determination across systems.
• Allowed nullable values in Archetype training weights, used when a proficiency is removed from the Archetype of a synthetic (unlinked token) actor. #1631
• Inherited the changes of a status's generated effect when an action applies that status, where appropriate. #1632
• Removed the ACTION.WARNINGS.SPECIFIC localization namespace; its strings moved to ACTIONS.<ActionName> keys.
• Removed the legacy .button and .control CSS styles in favor of <button> styling. #1660
• Removed the unused skill sheet template and its stylesheet.

Content Updates

• Added the Druid, Elemental Scamp, and Hunter adversary archetypes and the Water Elemental taxonomy. #1641
• Added the Harrier beast archetype.
• Added the Raven taxonomy, the Seer archetype, and the Earthmeld adversary talent.
• Added the Porcupine taxonomy and its natural Spines shield.
• Added adversary Death Burst talents for many damage types, and the Field Repairs adversary talent. #1640
• Added several new trap types, including the Battering Snare, Caltrop Snare, and Poison Barb Snare, and updated the Net and Steel Jaw Trap. #1639
• Added the Compass equipment item.
• Added rune-scaling talents for Spiritual and Kinematic runes: Adroit Kinesis, Compelling Illusion, Expeditious Illumination, Patient Soul, Tenacious Control, Undeniable Oblivion, Visceral Death, and Willful Life.
• Added the beast companions, Bestial Companion archetype, and companion taxonomies for the Beastmaster. #1626
• Added terrain rules to the Combat rules journal.
• Documented which spellcraft runes are governed by which spellcraft proficiency in the rules journal. #1623
• Corrected minor spelling mistakes in Archetype descriptions. #1649
• Made minor compendium touch-ups across equipment, conditions, and talents.

Balance Changes

• Improved shield Block progression: Heavy Shields now provide a base Block of 3 rather than 4, and the Tower Shield gains the Blocking property to reach 4 Block. #1619
• Slightly reduced the effectiveness of Bulwark by making its cost reduction consume available Free Movement. #1652
• Removed the free hand requirement from Dirty Tricks to make the talent more broadly useful. #1643

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error raised when resting while a party member is Weakened, caused by a duplicate deletion of the Weakened status. #1616
• Fixed spells which did not add the skill bonus from their spellcraft proficiency to their rolls. #1620
• Fixed removing a training preference from the Archetype of a synthetic actor, which failed without an error. #1631
• Fixed the Sage's Field Study so that a repeated study refreshes the effect's 24 hour duration and can be reversed correctly. #1650
• Fixed the Withering Bolt's Hexed status effect. #1632
• Restored the purchased talent counts attached to talent tree nodes. #1648
• Ensured that maintained spells differentiate their active effects by the combination of rune and gesture. #1658
• Restored automatically derived removal DCs for action-applied effects, which had become unremovable when an action was saved through the Action config sheet, and cleaned the affected compendium content. #1661
• Fixed action reversal re-creating an unrelated active effect which had been deleted after the action was used.
• Fixed the action outcome preview mutating an action's effect data, which could turn an effect update into a creation and share data between targets.