So I've been away a little while...real life issues are a pain. But I picked back up my work on Ravenloft and have completed it. I've pushed the content into the main branch on our GitHub, and have made the request to our data host to push it for official release. So it should hopefully hit everyone's Hero Lab in the next week or two.
Release V3.3 - Ravnica and Ravenloft
You can find the full patch notes
here, and they are normally copied into this thread when the update actually goes live.
To give a brief overview of what's coming:
Major Additions
- Acquisitions, Incorporated - All monsters added
- Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica - All monsters, items, and charms added, making the book complete.
- Princes of the Apocalypse - All monsters, also completing this book.
- Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft - Everything added.
Minor Additions
- Find Steed/Find Greater Steed Enhancements - These now function more like Find Familiar. Learning the spell will set up a minion where you can see your steed.
- Barding - Armor for your little (or big) buddies.
- New Adjustments - You can now hide deities from the selection list to keep things cleaner. Also, you can add a double proficiency (AKA Expertise).
- Hex Warrior - Enjoy automatic bonuses to your Pact Weapons, and look forward to the relevant weapons dynamically applying your Charisma bonus when it's higher than your STR/DEX.
- Bug Fixes - As always, squashing bugs and mistakes. See those full patch notes for specifics.
The GitHub and the Wiki
Some pages to keep in mind (including some new ones):
- Issues - Submit any bugs or enhancement suggestions
- Projects - Stay up to date on the current status of forthcoming updates, see what's being worked on, and what's on radar for the future.
- Known Issues - See what problems we already know exist.
- Homebrew Requests - An overview of how we're currently treating homebrew requests, updates, etc. And a list of the homebrew that's been requested so far. If you're wondering why we don't put homebrew in right now, give it a read.
What's Next (Release v3.4)
Since I took some time off and we're in the late-year release season, I'm placing some of the older books on the back burner for the sake of keeping up with current releases. Here's what I'm going to focus on for the next release:
- The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
- Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
- Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy
- Adventures in the Forgotten Realms - These were five short adventures released to promote the new D&D-themed Magic: The Gathering set.
Two other things I want to look at: Dragon5e has submitted a number of issues detailing errors in AC calculations; so many that a larger investigation may be needed. The other item is SRD monsters. LWD provides these as part of the basic 5E package for Hero Lab, so we haven't touched them in the Community Pack. But a number of monsters have received errata changes and remain unchanged in HL. So I plan to work through many of these and replace them with updated, Community Pack versions. This will end up being invisible to you; whatever SRD monsters you already have in your portfolios will automatically switch to use the corrected versions when they are released. I make no promises that either of these things will happen with 3.4, but they're on the horizon.