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You can now create and manage real estate: parcels of land and buildings alike. Most importantly, you can move items to parcels/buildings.
Zingor now has an importer for Alexis Smolensk's trade table spreadsheets, which contain weights, prices, sale units, descriptions, and other aspects of player-purchasable tradegoods.
Minor fixes related to sage knowledge.
In reply to https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/my-d-d-is-not-d-167877568
You (and long-time readers) know that I've long been questing for the staggering potential we can unlock by committing to fully computer-based gameplay. But I've tended to overlook the immersive potential of full real-time visual feedback. I gestured at that in my master's thesis but didn't fully pursue that particular thread.
Your recent experiment with Keep on the Borderlands image generation, and some work I've done on interactive battlemaps, have got me thinking again about how to more thoroughly integrate visuals into computerized play. Thanks for stirring the pot further here. Maybe you were the only one in five decades until yesterday, but make space on the bandwagon for Joey and me!
I've imported my old blog, 21st Century D&D, into this website, tagging the posts with "21stcenturydnd".
I wrote that blog during the second half of undergrad, give or take. While doing QA on the import program, I reread all the posts to gauge how I've changed since 2016-2018.
I've improved as a programmer and game designer, and there are ideas in those posts that turned out to be dead ends, or which are chiefly of historical interest as signposts for how far I've come. Yet there's a reassuring and comforting continuity between what I was thinking then, and what I've accomplished since.
You can now upload a portrait for each of your characters. A character's portrait is displayed above the character sheet's table of contents. (#56)
Version 0.6.0 brings multiple enhancements to sage knowledge support. First off, Zingor now supports multiple chosen sage fields/studies, since we have characters hitting levels where they get more! (#163)
Zingor now also supports sage study concentrations, the app's term for subareas to which certain sage studies' knowledge points may or must be assigned (#171). The rules for concentrations differ from study to study, and Zingor implements all of them:
On his blog, Alexis Smolensk takes down the argument that using AI ruins your writing, by detailing just how magically useful it is for assisting with your writing -- so long as you bother to use it intelligently.
Quoting selectively from his post:
In reply to https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/procedure-to-166782710
Present-day D&D practice may not admit of a procedural manual, but ours might, no?
An initial chapter might explain the importance of having a place that you control as the game venue (generally your own house), explaining why playing in a public place is liable to have too many distractions, as well as giving advice for keeping the fridge stocked, ordering food ahead of time and all that jazz. Simple stuff, yes, but things that a noob might not think to do for an art form with a strong component of people management.
That last needs a whole chapter too: Paying attention to players' emotions. Stepping in to resolve conflicts that are getting out of hand w/ techniques like making everyone go for a walk to cool down tempers. Praising players for good planning, good cooperation, clever use of abilities.
Major: I added a party inventory search/filter interface on the homepage (#27). Use this to quickly hunt through all of the items the entire party is carrying.
Minor:
In reply to https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2026/07/nirvana.html?showComment=1785879698162#c4915452037258796553
Agreed... as much as I'd like Buddhism to be a secret backdoor munchkin option for clerics via that reasoning :P
In reply to https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2026/07/session-13-treasure-aplenty.html
Gave my players more treasure than I normally would after a wight/skeleton fight yesterday and it felt good. But I couldn’t figure out whether your spreadsheet has an input for treasure type so I did the quantity ad hoc.
In reply to https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2026/07/nirvana.html
If Zoltan gets powerful enough to Plane Shift to Nirvana, or uncovers a different way there, and we all head on over, and discover it's full of blissfully working Alexises... well, you can't get mad if our characters sit down and roll characters. It's only fair.
Joking aside, I do like how you've poked logic holes in popular conceptions of heaven/perfection.
You've mentioned that one of the beautiful things about D&D is that unlike in real life, if players work hard towards something *and succeed*, the success will be meaningful and worthwhile. There will be a reward, or the DM isn't doing his job. That doesn't mean success itself is guaranteed, far from it. But succeeding at something does mean achieving a reward. Whereas in real life you can put in the effort and get somewhere, only to discover "somewhere" was never worthwhile to begin with.
In reply to https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2026/07/session-13-treasure-aplenty.html
Also, if there’s one thing I’ve learned as a DM from playing with you as, it’s that I need to give my party more combats and increase the size of treasure hauls. My current party has played ~45 sessions (!) and they’re all about 4th level. That’s ~3x slower advancement than in your game.
In reply to https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2026/07/session-13-treasure-aplenty.html
It was an excellent combat. We certainly *earned* that big treasure, it felt like, and earned it by the skin of our teeth. Pandred and I (Zoltan) were down to 1 or 2 HP each at one point. A couple different rolls could have totally changed things.
In reply to https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2026/07/session-12-round-and-round.html
We're gonna destroy those trogs and get alllllllll the treasure from the shiny new Excel table. I can feel it.