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.

Important disclaimer: This plug-in should be used only to collect information for your games and while you have a valid D&D Insider subscription. You should NEVER send any of the data collected to any other user, or keep them once your subscription has expired. Failing to maintain this code of conduct may be seen as a violation of Wizards of the Coast copyright legislation. If you download and use this feature, we assume you understand these limitations. The Virtual Combat Cards Team and this site take no responsibility of misuse of this feature, and will not accept any copyrighted material on the forum or issue tracking areas.

Installation is simple, follow these steps:

1. Read and understand the disclaimer above, this is very important for VCC's future.
2. Using the Firefox Browser click here to download the Extension.
3. You will have to authorize Firefox to install it. After you restart Firefox a tool bar will appear.

To capture monsters do the following:

1. Start VCC (version 1.0 or superior); normally the capture server is running as soon as VCC is ready. You can check this by selecting Compendium > D&D Insider Capture .... You should see the message: Capture Server is running, otherwise start the server using the Server menu. (Note that only one server can be running at a single time, so if you have two instances of VCC running only one will have the capture server running.)
2. Browse the D&D Insider compendium website using Firefox until you are looking at the monster you wish to capture.
3. Click on the Capture button on the toolbar, you will receive a message confirming the capture.
4. Once you have captured the monsters you wish to capture, it's time to import them into the VCC compendium. Inside VCC, go to Compendium > D&D Insider Capture ..., select the monster you wish to import (Ctrl-A will select all of them) and click the Import button.

The D&D Insider Compendium website allows anonymous (non-subscription) users to look at monsters from level one to three of the Monster Manual. If you wish to test this feature, before subscribing, use these monsters.

Captured monsters will be stored in the temporary directory. You can reload them by using the Cache > Load cached entries in the D&D Insider Capture Monitor window.