Borealis Builder

Borealis 1.4.0 tracks hit points and hit dice on the Play tab, puts every setting in one window, learns to update itself, adds house rules to ignore feat and multiclass prerequisites, reworks attack editing and fixes the bugs reported on the Borealis Discord. New in 1.4.0 • Borealis opens much faster when you have imported a lot of content. Loading no longer slows down with every imported book, and the loaded content is kept ready for the next launch. A large imported library that took over 10 seconds to load now takes about a second or less. • Ignore feat and multiclass prerequisites. Two new house rules under Edition & compatibility let a character take a feat or a multiclass without meeting its prerequisites. Such picks are marked "prerequisites not met", and turning a rule off keeps them, marked invalid. • Custom attacks can follow an ability. Tick "Calculate automatically", pick the ability, and the attack bonus and damage follow it like a weapon's. • The inventory has Aurora's item menu. Right-click an item, or long-press on phones, for the item menu, including "Add to Attacks & Spellcasting" for weapons. • Gear on phones: the inventory is its own sub-tab, beside Equipment and Additional treasure, and Gear opens on it once you carry items, so there is no more scrolling past the whole item list to reach it. • One settings window. Application Settings now holds every setting: the Borealis settings that had their own window are tabs in it (Rules, Saving, Display, Content, Search, AI assistant, Phones, Devices, Updates), saved with Save and undone with Cancel like the others. • Borealis can update itself on Windows, macOS and the Linux AppImage. From the next release on, the update notice has an Install and restart button next to Download, so there is no need to download each new version from the website. Nothing installs until you click it. The deb and rpm packages and the store versions update as before. • Play: hit points, hit dice and amounts. Track current and temporary hit points on the Play tab (damage comes off temporary hit points first), spend hit dice to heal and get them back on a Long Rest by your edition's rules (a Short Rest offers them), and change any tracker or your hit points by a typed amount. • Portrait library. Settings > Content has a Portrait library folder. Its images (PNG, JPEG, GIF and WebP, also one sub-folder down) show in the portrait gallery after your own, and picking one sets the portrait as browsing for an image does. • Play: switch Rage on its own row. A state that has uses, such as Rage, now has its switch on its row under Resources, next to Spend, so spending a use and switching it on happen in one place. • Obsidian vault notes. Settings > Content has a new Obsidian vault folder, and Start > Notes shows its notes. Read them as rendered pages (properties, links, embeds, tags, callouts, task lists) or edit their Markdown as is. Follow links, see backlinks, search by text or tag, and create, rename (with link updates if you agree) and delete notes. Borealis works on the files in place and never changes your .obsidian settings. If Obsidian or a sync service changes a note while you edit it, Borealis asks before saving. • Obsidian notes on iPad and iPhone. Settings > Content > Obsidian vault opens the Files folder picker on iPhone and iPad: pick your vault in iCloud Drive, On My iPad or Obsidian's folder, and Start > Notes opens it in place with the same reading, editing, links, backlinks, tags and search as on desktop. Borealis keeps access after a restart; when Obsidian Sync or iCloud changes a note while Borealis was in the background, Notes reloads it, or asks before overwriting if you had edits. • Obsidian notes on Android. Settings > Content > Obsidian vault opens the Android folder picker: choose your vault folder in the phone's storage, and Start > Notes opens it in place with the same reading, editing, links, backlinks, tags and search as on desktop. Borealis keeps access to the fol…