What's Changed
v1.9.0 only a week since 1.8.0 all because the wizard cast haste on me. Which is great, right up until the bard hits insults him for being short and he loses concentration.
This release is all about getting your stuff out of Grimoire and into the places you actually play. Share links give a book, map, token, audio track or model a public URL you can hand to a player without making them an account. You can set them to expire, put a password on them, and revoke them when one inevitably ends up in the wrong Discord channel. Speaking of Discord, maps can now be set up for OTFBM, so Avrae's !map draws your battle map already sized to its grid. The reader can also export a page range as a PDF or images, or cut out maps, tokens and handouts by drawing around them, so the one map you need no longer lives on page 147 of a 300-page PDF. Expect more integrations with VTTs moving forward, as this is just the foundational work.
Characters can come with you from other tools now too. Character importers read a Forge Steel hero, a Pathbuilder 2e export, or a D&D Beyond or DiceCloud link, and build the character on the right sheet, installing the sheet if you don't have it yet. Huge thanks to @ianfhunter for the DiceCloud and D&D Beyond importers. Like sheets, importers are community add-ons, so if your table's tool isn't covered yet, the importer guide shows you how to add it.
Grimoire also speaks to Grimoire Codex DB now, a community catalogue of TTRPG systems and books. Set GRIMOIRE_CODEX_DB_API_TOKEN and it becomes the first stop in Fetch metadata, and you can send books and corrections back so the next library finds them too. If you'd rather ask than search, turn on MCP_ENABLED and an AI assistant such as Claude Code can search your library and campaign notes and cite the book and page it found the answer on, limited to what its API key allows. To go further, the /grimoire skill in the community add-ons repo teaches your assistant to organise a pile of unsorted PDFs, find broken books, fill in metadata, and prep your next session.
New Features
- Share links: public, revocable URLs for books, maps, tokens, audio and models, with expiry and optional passwords
- Set maps up as OTFBM backgrounds for Avrae's
!map - Import characters from Forge Steel, Pathbuilder 2e, D&D Beyond and DiceCloud with @ianfhunter in #561
- Export pages and cut-outs from the reader as PDF or images, with spread joining and token cut-outs
- Grimoire Codex DB lookup, linking and submitting
.m4baudiobooks with chapter navigation- MCP server for AI assistants, behind
MCP_ENABLED
Enhancements
- Audio tracks are named by their tags and play in album order
- Magazines & Zines is a built-in book category
- Name the main version of a family instead of "Main version", and duplicate review pre-fills names like Gridless and Gridded from filenames
- Style the OIDC sign-in button to match your provider
- Fetch metadata from the reader's details panel
- Admins control who can create share links, per role and per user
- Map, token, audio and model pages keep Favorite, Add to campaign and Share in a ⋮ menu
- Allow freeform values on content_ref character fields by @ianfhunter in #571
Bug Fixes
- SSO sign-in only redirects back to your own Grimoire, reported by @Artur12555
- Skip non-UTF-8 filenames instead of failing the whole scan
- Keep line breaks in system descriptions and collapse long ones
- Read titles, artists and albums tagged inside WAV and AIFF files
- Admins see Move, Rename and Delete in the reader's ⋮ menu
New Contributors
- @ianfhunter made their first contribution in #561
Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0