Level Up Gateway January Dev Update

This past month was the start of our very first testing phase where we opened up Level Up Gateway to backers of the 2021 Level Up Kickstarter where people made hundreds of characters, campaigns, rolled dice and reported bugs. The bug reports have been a huge aid and we’ve been following up with 6 patches full of fixes to issues like deviations from the rules to page freezes. For more detail on bug fixes the changelog page details each change.

But we haven’t stopped expanding either. We introduced a couple of new capabilities to the Gateway as well. Skill proficiency selection options now show and disable skill options the character is already proficient in, this will make it easier to select skill proficiencies without accidentally overlapping.

We added an option to import a standalone character into a campaign so that users can create a character outside a campaign and then move it into a campaign. This can also be used to move between campaigns by removing a character from a campaign first, then add them to the new campaign.

And lastly we added a public view for characters. So long as your character is not private (option in the character builder) you will be able to share your character by url and anyone will be able to see but not edit a character.

Class Levels

We added levels 6 - 10 for the Wizard and Fighter classes. Exciting implementations of features for the Wizard include the 6th level Mage archetype feature: Flux which can change effect whenever you finish a rest and the 9th level feature: Wizard’s Flair which can change effect after a long rest. The active Wizard’s Flair effect is shown on the magic tab:

And the selected Flux benefit is applied to your character sheet depending on your choice making them easier to keep track of.

For the fighter some interesting features to have implemented are the 9th Level Indomitable feature which we added to the actions section:

And the 7th level Duelist feature: Parry and Thrust which allows any weapon with the finesse property to be used as a parrying weapon allowing for fun actions like the Whip Parry:

This coming month is sure to hold even more classes progressed to 10th level and bugfixes! We look forward to seeing what you build!