As many of you are aware, I am a long time player of many FFG games. This includes Descent and all of its iterations. I am older than virtually everyone on this forum. I also suffer from some severe medical conditions, one of which is robbing me of my short term memory.
All of this, of course, makes it very difficult for me to remember specific cards, text on the cards, etc., which makes it hard to participate within some discussions without first getting my game out, reading the cards in question, and then getting back to the forum.
This obviously does not make it very conducive to participating in the forum. Figuring that there are probably others out there that even if they do have good memories really don't want to have to drag the game out, find a particular card, etc. just to participate in a thread, I have decided to develop a technology solution to the issue.
Hence, I have begun the creation of a Google Chrome Extension called D2e Companion Card Viewer. This is a work in progress, and at times, may appear broken as I add features to it. If you use google, and want to test it, you can go out to the Google Chrome Store and add the extension to Chrome.
Essentially, what it will do is underline in red key names of D2e cards. When you move your mouse over those names that are underlined, and image of the card will automatically appear.
Below, as a test, you will see the names of five different Search cards. If you hover over them, you should see an image of the actual card. For the Secret Passage card, since there are actually two of them from two different expansions, you will see the card twice, side by side. Since the cards are identical, it doesn't offer much value to show both. But, when it comes to heroes, monsters, etc. that exist in multiple expansions such as the Conversion Kit, normal expansions, H&M expansions, etc., you will see each card side by side, with their differences.
I hope some of you use Chrome, and will help test this. I plan on creating new posts within this thread as I activate each different type of card. For now, note that key names will only be underlined if the whole name matches; for example, if Arvel Worldwalker appears in a sentence, it will be underlined. If just Arvel or just Worldwalker appears, it will not.
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I want to officially provide a shout out to Guido Kessels for his invaluable help, direction, tips, code samples, etc. He developed something similar for X-Wing, and was gracious enough to share much of what he did with me, so that I could develop a similar tool for D2e
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Stamina Potion Power Potion Treasure Chest Nothing Secret Passage
Here is a sample of what it looks like when you hover over Stamina Potion:
