Virtual Combat Cards
Virtual Combat Cards - D&D 4th Edition Initiative and Combat Tracker
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2009-01-03 17:44.
Virtual Combat Cards (VCC) is a Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition combat tracker. It is designed to assist Dungeon Masters in running combats and keeps track of the health, initiative, conditions and effects of all the combatants in a battle. Keeping things simple yet effective is the main design goal.
Best of all VCC is free and multi-platform. It is an Open Source project (see more information visit the project page). VCC it is written in Scala and runs on the Java Runtime Environment, so you can run it on any machine that supports Java. It has been successfully tested on Windows, Linux, MAC.
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Running a Combat
Submitted by Nebulorum on Fri, 2009-12-04 16:02.
In this section we assume you have the sample data (shipped with 1.1.0). If you don’t have that you will have to create a party yourself (see Managing your Parties and Encounters). With the encounter files ready running a battle is a simple task.
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Managing your Parties and Encounters
Submitted by Nebulorum on Fri, 2009-12-04 14:22.
Creating a party is a simple activity once you have the compendium entries (the combatant definitions).
When building encounters VCC will show how many XP of your budget you have spent.
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Submitted by Nebulorum on Tue, 2009-12-01 00:20.
To improve control Virtual Combat Cards has some short cuts for common tasks.
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Concepts and Conventions
Submitted by Nebulorum on Mon, 2009-11-30 23:48.
In Virtual Combat Cards screen and documentation there are some terms and concept used. Understanding them will make it easier to explore the tool and also to request support.
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Virtual Combat Cards User Guide
Submitted by Nebulorum on Tue, 2009-11-24 02:16.
This is the Virtual Combat Cards online manual, we hope it will keep improving, and help on this is always welcome.
We strive to make VCC clear and simple to use, but as it increases in features and complexity the manual is designed to help explore the most of the tracker.
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Virtual Combat Cards Firefox Plug-in
Submitted by Nebulorum on Tue, 2009-11-10 22:29.
The Virtual Combat Cards Firefox plug-in allows users to capture information from the D&D Insider Compendium and send it to VCC. This reduces the amount of input a user has to do to get their game ready.
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What to do if things go wrong?
Submitted by Nebulorum on Wed, 2009-08-26 18:00.
Virtual Combat Cards has been design trying to make it resistant to problem, so that you don't lose you combat. Eventually a bug might popup and may cause it to stop it's normal behavior. If this happens please report the bug, but don't panic there are ways to recover you combat.
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Virtual Combat Cards Download
Submitted by Nebulorum on Sat, 2009-07-04 19:39.
Virtual Combat Cards is combat tracker for D&D 4th Edition. It tracks initiative, health and effects. This page is just a holder for the release and bug reports.
This application is written in Scala and runs on Sun Java version 1.6.0 on Windows, Linux and Mac (see note), but should run on other platforms as well. Most Windows machines will have it installed. You can get it here Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 11
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Keyboard Short Cuts
Submitted by Nebulorum on Sat, 2009-06-27 13:54.
To improve control Virtual Combat Cards has some short cuts for common tasks.
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