Last year, I decided to add the possibility for players to access the application with a smartphone / tablet, to check their character status, skills and spell descriptions, allowing even more paperwork to be done automatically.
Is this done by the players simply connecting to the server address?
What you are looking for is the character status module, it can be accessed from the module selection screen just like the other features in ERA.
The only difference is that it is mainly designed to be accessed from the players' smartphones during play.
This tutorial video will get you started on how to use it.
Let me know if you have any questions about the module.
I use Windows 7 and Google Chrome (but tried it with Internet Explorer too with the same result). After some testing I think I have found what the problem is. For some reason I need to have my browser window open before I start the ERA server. If I run the server before starting the browser it opens the browser for me but can't connect to the server even though the server says it is ready. But if I have the browser open before running the ERA server it seem to work almost all the times. :-)
I know this has happened to me a few times. My guess is that it is related with the browser taking too long to start. The important thing is that if the server says it is started, then it certainly is.
When the startup of the server does not automatically open the module selection screen, it is useful to have a bookmark for it in your browser. So next time this happens you don't need to worry about the server, just click on your browser's bookmark and you're done.
Another question: How do I create the specific weapon skills underneath the categories, and the separate ranks of martial arts? I try editing the header and adding a skill (plus sign), but the stat bonuses don't come down, and cannot be edited on the individual line.
Oh there it is--in the category header.
I'd like to add something about creating skills.
There's an important parameter called "Resolution Table" when editing skills.
You can access it by clicking on the edit (pen) icon to the left of the skill, then choosing the update (cog) icon to the right of the name. Here you should write the exact name of the attack table in the case of weapon skills.
An easy way to check the attack tables installed is to go to the character creation module, skip to the weapon skill step and see the list of options in the Attack Table field.
The weapon skills that are built using the step during character creation will be correctly configured. The only manual input required is then when you want to add martial arts attack skills (or a weapon skill after character creation).
