Crucible Version 0.8.1 - "V13 Beta 11"

Welcome to version 0.8.1 of the Crucible system - ongoing development towards the eventual goal of "playable beta". This release specifically supports the Ember Beta release version 0.4.0.

Contributors

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

• @roth-michael
• @anathemamask

Highlights

• Configurable settings for extending Character Creation sources
• Group actor milestone tracking and award workflows
• Damage type immunities
• Rules Compendium updates and refinement

New Features

• Significant improvements to Group actor milestone tracking with a new expanded data structure that records the reason why each milestone was achieved along with corresponding API methods and UX workflows for assigning milestone awards to a party and its member Heroes. #367
• Add support for damage type immunities which can be configured for Adversary Taxonomies. #371
• Added configurable settings for extending character creation by designating alternative or additional Compendium pack sources from which creation options can be drawn. #260
• When importing a Scene from a Compendium pack that was not originally designed in the Crucible system, auto-migrate tokens to resize them for the Crucible microgrid. #330
• When dragging and dropping an item onto an Actor Sheet that is stackable when the actor already has at least one of that item, it should increment the quantity in the existing stack instead of creating a new Item. #355
• Prepare group actor movement speeds as a function of travel pace. #368

API Changes

• Consolidate the defendWeaponAttack, defendSpellAttack, and defendSkillAttack actor hooks under a shared defendAttack hook which is called for any sort of attack action. #345
• Add finalizeAction actor hook which allows Actor owned items and talents to modify the results of actions as part of their finalization. #370
• Rename confirmActionOutcome hook to confirmAction hook. #369

Content Updates

• Significant expansion and improvement of the Crucible Rules compendium with new journal entries and pages #373
• Create damage type absorption adversary talents following the pattern of Frost Absorption for other elemental and spiritual damage types. #348

Bug Fixes

• Restore missing background image from Crucible character creation UX.