Alternity® Character Manager

Alternity® Character Manager
v0.9.1 beta

This page contains info all the latest news, info, and download of the Alternity® Character Manager

Latest News

April 25, 2004

Beta Update - build 62
Armor now uses XML files
Added "Load Old Lists" button to Armor dialog to load old "aal" files
Fixed problems with loading XML data using non US Windows versions

Complete News

Notes on Newest Features

Export Hero: This takes the currently loaded hero and exports it using an XSL transformation file. An example file (walter_hero.xsl) is included in this release. This supplants the Save as HTML function which will be removed in future versions. Also, the print preview and reporting system will be removed soon because the XML/XSL capability is more powerful and compatible across many platforms.

Mutiple Sources: Some of the FX skills currently have two sources listed: Beyond Science & Dark*Matter. This allows better filtering of the skill/weapon/armor/equipment lists. To enter multiple sources for an item, simply seperate them with the pipe "|" character.

More information and discussions can be found in the forums.

OpenRPG 1.4.1 Instructions

This new version includes two XSL exporters for OpenRPG. The first one, walter_openrpg.xsl, simply creates an XML file that can be directly imported into OpenRPG. The second one, walter_openrpg_dr.xsl, requires a new Alternity® die roller for OpenRPG. The file is available below. Without this file installed properly into OpenRPG, the die roller version of the OpenRPG sheet will not work.

NOTE: These exporters and die roller are designed to work with OpenRPG 1.4.1 only.

Features

Create Heroes from all professions including FX Adepts or even non-professionals
Create Heroes from the 7 basic species including Mutants plus many of the added species
Create a GM's Sheet to track the characters in your campaign and print it out
All Hero parameters and options are editable all the time
Track a Heroes level and advancement
Customize the skills and add your own
Allows a Hero to buy certain skills multiple times (i.e. Vehicle Ops-Space Vehicle)
Preview and Print character sheets and customizable them as well
Export Heroes using XSL transformations
Save an HTML file of your Hero
GM Sheet records Stun, Wound, Mortal, Fatigue as well as Action Check
Handles the rules variants for Skill points and costs: 2A, 2B, and 2C
Hero files are save in the universal XML format
etc., etc., etc.

FAQ
The FAQ (Freqeuntly Asked Questions) can be found here.

Notes
Program notes are found here. A complete Help file will be available with the 1.0 release.

GM Sheet Keys
These keys work on the currently selected Hero or NPC. An NPC is a Hero without a Player Name or with a Player Name of 'NPC'.

Key	Function
s/S	Add/Remove a Stun point
w/W	Add/Remove a Wound point
m/M	Add/Remove a Mortal point
C	Clear all Stun/Wound/Mortal
1	Amazing phase
2	Good phase
3	Ordinary phase
4	Marginal phase
0	Clear check result

Download
You can download the program from the appropriate link below.

It no longer needs a setup program. Just extract the archive WITH DIRECTORIES and you can run the app directly.

To uninstall just delete the directory.

Files Available	Link	Size
WAlter BUILD 62	walter-0.9.1.62.zip	1.09 Mb
Alternity® Die Roller for OpenRPG	walter-openrpg.zip	3 kb

WARNING: This program is provided AS IS with no warrantees expressed or implied. Use at your own risk. Remember, it's BETA!

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