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ninjawithkillmoon / gloomhaven-thearcanelibrary

The Arcane Library - a Gloomhaven campaign tracker
https://ninjawithkillmoon.github.io/
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Accomodating non-boss special monsters in the monster utility #32

Open thomastj8991 opened 7 years ago

thomastj8991 commented 7 years ago

Problem

Several scenarios have "boss" monsters that are just regular monsters with other attributes (increased health, shield, etc.). For example, see scenarios number 67 or 87.

Right now, there isn't a way to accommodate these types of monsters (that I know of). I propose the following solution below.

Solutions

When you click on the monster level button today, it cycles from 0 through 7. There could be one more option after 7 called "Other" or "Special" that then allows you to customize the amount of health assigned to that monster. Maybe you would see a prompt or you could type into the HP field to change it to a specific value.

In an ideal world the scenario data would also provide this info, perhaps as a separate monster type, but this functionality should exist for things other than just the built-in scenarios so if you play custom ones or future released ones it could support that, too.

For now, we'll likely track the boss monsters separately from the app, but maybe a bit more flexibility could be added to work with these situations.

ASunday47 commented 7 years ago

Good idea. This is also true in the second kickstarter scenario (+1 shield, health formula based on # of players).

blemaire commented 7 years ago

There is also a scenario where some monsters are 2 lvl higher than the others but this is not currently accounted for / possible to do. Thanks

ninjawithkillmoon commented 7 years ago

@blemaire When you are adding monsters (not on the All Active tab), there is a white button that shows the monster level. This defaults to the number selected at the top of the page, but if you press this button it will change the monster level for this monster only, and the health will change accordingly.

Good suggestions otherwise. We should be able to add the ability to create an enemy with a custom health value.

blemaire commented 7 years ago

Thanks @ninjawithkillmoon, could this be made a little clearer as it's not obvious at all? Thanks a lot

ninjawithkillmoon commented 7 years ago

It's in the instructions at the bottom of the page, but I guess something could be done to make the button look more... clickable?

blemaire commented 7 years ago

Maybe indicating the level as Lvl x in the button instead of simply x could do the trick? image

thomastj8991 commented 7 years ago

I really like @blemaire 's suggestion for adding the Lvl wording.

blemaire commented 7 years ago

Some scenarios also have altars or door that have hitpoints, there is currently no way to keep track of their health, could this be added?