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No, as it's not about the size of the issue - this continues to be a site for a roleplaying game.

No, as it's not about the size of the issue - this continues to be a site for a roleplaying game.

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call the overloaded singleton getter:  com.hero.HeroDesigner.getInstance(true);
That'll give you an instance of HD without a GUI constructed. From there you can call the non-GUI methods as normal (loading characters, exporting, etc.). Most of the methods you'd be calling will be in the HeroDesigner class itself.
You'd be refactoring more than you think -- the HDC files are only half of the story. They have the build information (how many levels, what options are selected, etc.) but the rules are contained in the template -- you need to combine the two to get at a full character (determining costs for abilities, etc.). And that wouldn't take into account the...idiosyncrasies in display, layout, and cross-ability interaction that need code to handle.

One of the more sobering pieces I've seen was a climate scientist being interviewed some months back, saying that it's not a matter of _if_ Florida will be lost, it's a matter of how quickly -- how much warning/time we'll have to move the population of an entire state.

The name field is always optional...and the export tag always requires the surrounding IFNAME container.

I am very partial to the Tasha's Ultimate Sheet. Though I may be biased.

Meanwhile, I tested positive yesterday.

A little bit of troubleshooting in advance for folks to follow up on this post:
 
If you double-click on HD6.jar and nothing happens (specifically, you don't see the loading splash for HD), then .jar file associations on your system are not properly setup. If you haven't installed Java on your system yet, go to www.java.com and click on the big red button to install Java. If you have Java installed and are not seeing anything happen when double-clicking HD6.jar, then Google "jarfix" to find a small executable that will correct the .jar file associations on your system for you.
 
If you double-click on HD6.jar and see the loading splash for HD, but it stops at "loading plugins" then you're running HD from a directory that you don't have full access to.  There're some technical details about how the startup process works, but the long and short of it is that HD needs to be in a directory that both your account and Java have full read/write access to (Windows UAC in particular gets a bit hungup about C:\Program Files and similar directories) -- move HD to your Desktop or Documents folder and run from there, if only to verify that the issue is fixed (you can always move it afterwards).

Very glad to hear that she's on the mend.

Thank you all for your kind words about my daughter. She's feeling better day by day. Still got a fever, but we're managing that with ibuprofen.

That did the trick.
 
I had my head so wrapped around getting Java installed properly, I thought it might have something to do with it and completely missed checking the HD version.
 
Thanks and glad it's working now!  

They would have to be alternating between Blocking and Striking -- aborting one Action to Block, then on their next available Action (after the aborted one) Striking.  Each time they struck a character with Damage Shield, they would take the damage as appropriate, regardless of whether the character Blocked the attack or if the attack hit.

From 6E1:
 
 

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

The most Golden of Girls has passed. Only weeks away from her 100th birthday. 
 
Damn you, 2021. 
 
RIP
 

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...

First day out of self-isolation.  Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative).
 
Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case.  Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...