Update : TOME 1.2 : Swiftlet
What is available in this release?
Tome 1.2 adds two new features to your storytelling:
- Tome Maps
- Notes
It also changes the UI significantly for a better experience.
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Tome Maps
Tome Maps are similar to Lore Maps, but are meant to help you with more “zoomed-in” views, such as Dungeon Maps.
To create a new map, simply click “New Map” in the palette, under Insert > Scenario.
The maps in Tome have the same functionality as a Lore Map, but add a new concept : Text Pins
Text Pins come with a selection of ten icons and two colors that help you navigate your map.
Use them to know at a glance when you should consult a pin. Something should be described as soon as the players see it ? Why not use the eye ? Something should be interacted with ? Use the hand, or the key if a special item is needed, perhaps. You are free to interpret these icons as you see fit, ultimately. One thing is for sure : gone are the days of having dozens of notes about a room, and not knowing which one to consult at the right moment.
Notes
Ultimately, in Tome, our storytelling software, one should be able to write down a commercially-available campaign, then play it with multiple groups. In order to achieve this, we still have many features to implement. This one is one of them.
I don’t know about you, but the best way I ever found to take notes in a pinch is to send messages to myself in a chat window. So that’s what we did. During a session, when with your players, you can now send notes in that window. After the session, you’ll be able to drag and drop them in the text like this :
When our system becomes able to run multiple sessions, these notes will only apply to the session they were taken in, allowing you to play with multiple tables with ease.
The new UI
As you can see in the last picture, the UI has been significantly altered. Scenes in Tome now scroll as a whole, memos don’t require scrolling on normal screen sizes anymore, and the font size has been reduced to improve the density of information on screen, among other things.
It is also now much easier to drag and drop paragraphs, frames and other elements inside text boxes.
Finally, the Spell Checking features have been improved.
Enjoy the new UI !
Roadmap
Highest Priority
- New Feature : Handouts
- New Feature : Play with Multiple Tables
- New Feature : Widgets
- New Widget : Story Alerts
- New Feature : Tokenboard
- Improvement : Various Writing and Browsing Quality of Life Additions
Lower Priority
- New Feature : Thematic Highlighting Tools
- New Widgets : Basic Time Management
- Improvement : New Intrigues
- Improvement : More Tokenboard Tools
- Improvement : Non-Linearity Improvements
- Improvement : Data Tables
- Improvement : New Index Pages
- Improvement : Various Writing and Browsing Quality of Life Additions
Stuff to look forward to…
- Many ideas we plan to revisit after we’re done with the above…
- Several planned Quality of Life improvements
- In-app tutorials
- Backer Specific Themes and Icons
- VTT Integrations
- Four Chapters that concern TOME out of of the six Stretch Goals we reached :
· Games Bazaar GB
· A Coin Flip CF
· Masters of Time MoT
· The Librarian Lib
In the future, these codes will precede any relevant feature in the updates or roadmaps
This roadmap is indicative and non-exhaustive
