Implementing Knave 2ed support

[jptrzy]

First things first, I love the approach and implementation of this VTT!

I'm interested in adding support for Knave 2nd Edition, which I play regularly. Because of that, I have a few questions and ideas I'd like to discuss:

1. Is there any ongoing work on adding support for Knave 2nd Edition?
   I saw issue Support more TTRPG systems #117 and don’t want to duplicate efforts.

2. Are there any documents or guidelines on adding support for a new system?

3. Have you considered implementing a world inventory?A shared space where items can be placed, exchanged with PCs/NPCs (related to Sending items to players/between players #136), or dropped due to injuries—similar to how Knave handles it.

4. Why can monsters and NPCs be moved via drag-and-drop, but items cannot?

Looking forward to your thoughts!

[fjallnari]

First of all, I'm glad you like this project, I loved working on it. Now onto your questions.

1. Is there any ongoing work on adding support for Knave 2nd Edition?

I am currently not developing any new features or systems for MoriiVTT in its current form, just fixing any issues that come up - reason for that is twofold:

• I have been slowly chipping away at a complete MoriiVTT 2.0 rework. I have already created a new character sheet engine with a GUI sheet editor (will allow even non-devs to add new systems and is more flexible) and have slowly been converting the functionality of current Morii. I plan to make an issue or a post or something, to go more into the reasoning, but the main goals were to streamline system addition, improve self-hosting possibility (MongoDB->SQLite), mobile friendliness, etc.

• I simply don't have the time to put into it too much right now (working on a thesis and whatnot)

2. Are there any documents or guidelines on adding support for a new system?

There is not much formal documentation to speak of, but the process of adding a new system looks like this:

1. Create a new entry in the GameSystems file (this describes all the unique meta-components that a system has, the rest is common across systems)
2. Create a character typescript interface (examples client + server) + character skeleton (example)
3. (most importantly) Create the character sheet itself (there are multiple general components I've created for different situations, but the bulk of the work is still here, you'd have to design the UI the way you want) - you can see how I've done the other sheets (example).
4. If you want any GM facing features, you can add them as specific components in the GameSystems file as well (e.g. initiative, monsters, character stats etc.)

If you'd like to work on a Knave sheet anyway, I have no issue with it, and am happy to provide any guidance with the codebase and whatnot.

3. Have you considered implementing a world inventory?

I have, and I am planning on facilitating item transfers between characters or a full blown world inventory in the 2.0. Right now it would require #108 -> #136.

4. Why can monsters and NPCs be moved via drag-and-drop, but items cannot?

Frankly, drag-and-drop for monsters and NPCs was created after items and I haven't gone back to add the the same feature to items. I agree it would absolutely make sense for items to have it as well though.

[jptrzy]

...I have been slowly chipping away at a complete MoriiVTT 2.0 rework....

That's great to hear 😁.

Then, I will postpone my plans of implementing knave 2ed, at least until you officially update to 2.0 version

Talking about it, do you have a public repo for it? (I wouldn't mind giving some help by coding or feedback)

[fjallnari]

Talking about it, do you have a public repo for it? (I wouldn't mind giving some help by coding or feedback)

I've kept it in a couple of private repos for now, but I absolutely plan to open-source it when the foundation is there, it's slightly more stable and there's enough docs (this time around hah) to make it easier to contribute. 😄