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Charactermancer 5e errors

Are there any plans to fix the charactermancer's errors at any point? The most notable is how it asks you to choose cleric/paladin/druid spells instead of importing them all. I enjoy using the charactermancer but often skip spells entirely due to the mess it provides. Same for feat selection, not implemented yet. It is a great start but I wondered if there were plans to finish it?
Hi There Phil - Thanks for your feedback. We’re always working to improve user experience regarding 5e and the Charactermancer. At this point, we don’t have any timelines to share on these items. However, we'll certainly keep you posted once we do. Happy adventuring! :)
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Gen Kitty
Forum Champion
I can tell you that adding all the cleric|paladin|druid spells to a character's sheet will likely cause your game to slow down -- each spell has a lot of 'data' associated with it, and so it is suggested that you only add to the sheet the spells you are most likely to use, adding and removing spells rarely used as you prep them.
Well, Firstly, I am only referring to those earned by level. I dislike the fact you are asked to 'choose' spells to memorize for cleric et al in the same way a bard might, because it is implying a feature incorrectly, aka that you only have those spells. Secondly I am not sure it would slow down the game quite so bad as when I manually drag them everytime. Having played a Necromancer recently with 12 skeletons all having lines of sight I am aware of potential slowdown issues (I had to get my DM to turn their sight off) but every single time I play a Cleric I drag all the spells into my book, which is simply work that the charactermancer was supposed to do, and don't suffer over it. As for the slowdown, they already make alterations to the way the spells are added, with them being opened or the innate line being visible across a second line instead of a first - so with that much tinkering perhaps a way to store spell data more concisely would prevent that issue.
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Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author
By slow down, Gen Kitty is talking about game lag.  The exponential increase in attributes the sheets are tracking if you load all the spells at once is staggering.  All info on your sheet is always available for rolls, so I'm not sure how a change to info storage would make a difference.  It is always loaded all the time, which is the issue with piling on the spells.  It vastly increases the data footprint of each character sheet that is set up that way.  You won't know this by looking at the Attributes & Abilities tab, because no attributes from repeating sections show up there. I understand wanting to have everything available on the sheet all the time and just mark what is prepared.  Players run into this same thing in Pathfinder.  It just isn't a good thing to do for having a smooth running game.  Choose your most used spells in the 'mancer.  Add any others manually that you know will be used fairly often.  Leave everything else in the compendium until needed.  I'm pretty certain this advice is in the wiki somewhere, but couldn't find it in a quick glance.
Hey I am having trouble using charactermancer to level up.  Have not had any problems in the past but now I am.  Started Sunday night, going from level 5 to 6.  One thing that has changed we went from "Lost Mines" and are now doing "Storm Kings Thunder", and this is the first time leveling up after being ported over to it.  Any help would be great.  
Darin P. said: Hey I am having trouble using charactermancer to level up.  Have not had any problems in the past but now I am.  Started Sunday night, going from level 5 to 6.  One thing that has changed we went from "Lost Mines" and are now doing "Storm Kings Thunder", and this is the first time leveling up after being ported over to it.  Any help would be great.   Hey Darin P. - Hmmm, gotcha. Would you mind providing me with the exact name of the game and character (as seen in the Journal tab) that is having the trouble, please? I'll take a look at this as soon as I can! :)
Phill said: Are there any plans to fix the charactermancer's errors at any point? The most notable is how it asks you to choose cleric/paladin/druid spells instead of importing them all . I enjoy using the charactermancer but often skip spells entirely due to the mess it provides. Same for feat selection, not implemented yet. It is a great start but I wondered if there were plans to finish it? I was going to report this same issue. It's pretty bad. Not feeling my deity's love without a long list of spells to prepare and optimize every rest...