What's coming up?

Martial Law: I'm currently updating my database files to include information from the newly released Martial Law. I have for the most part finished up the necessary changes to the Character Creator. Updates include additional Weapons, Skills, Talents, and Armor. There will also be additional armor pieces as well as the ability to add armor with quality and material. More options to build your armor by the piece. New rules are in place which allow the user to define sections of armor with specific armor types. This change will be included in the Harp Fantasy database as well. The user can also define the character's social class giving the character sheet specialized starting money based on their social class. I have added Talents to reflect the character selecting a social class that is higher than poor as the character can receive more money than what is standard in the Harp Fantasy rules. For the Combat Tracker, it will include additional actions as well as new Combat Tables and a new Martial Law Combat System which was included with the Martial Law book. I will also include as a bonus character sheets of the NPCs written in Martial Law which will be available to only those who purchase Martial Law.

I am moving along well with the changes for Martial Law and predict having a completed application update by the end of the month.

Next on the list is Sci-Fi Extreme which includes Vehicle combat and Robot/Android character creation.

Important Notice about Versions

If you are getting a path not found error when creating a character sheet, it is probably due to not having an updated Database. The Main application comes with an updated demo database however if you have purchased the Harp Fantasy and Harp Sci-Fi databases through RPGNow, you may have an older version. You should have received a notice that updated files are available to you at RPGNow for either the Harp Fantasy database or the Harp Sci-Fi database, whichever database you purchased. To check your Database version go to the following path: "[installation path]/Harp Databases/Harp Fantasy". Inside the Harp Fantasy directory should be a file called version.xml. Open this file in Wordpad or Notepad. Look for the version number which should be either 1.0.0 or 1.0.1

Right now here is a roadmap to let you know what you need when it comes to versions.

Application Version	Supported Database versions
AutoHARP1.0	Database version 1.0.0
AutoHARP1.0.1	Database version 1.0.1

Sorry for not being clear on this before.

AutoHARP Version 1.0.1 Update!

AutoHARP has been updated to version 1.0.1. Here is a list of fixes and new features

• Database Enhancement: The database has been given a facelift in order to make it easier to customize. The older version had information located in the base xml classes as well as book definitions. I have moved the information out of these files and into the book xml class. I have added a new attribute called baseRules that tell the application where to find this information. Users can now define their own base rules.
• Changing the cost or locking out a skill now propagates into the subskills if any exist. Changing the cost of the skill now automatically locks the skill out for changes.
• Locking out a skill now is saved with the character sheet. Before it was not included.
• The Human Hybrid now gets 3 stat points instead of 2
• When you import an attack into your Offensive Information the ranks were not included in the import. Ranks are now included so that now they will show up when you import your character into the Combat Tracker. However there is no way to add ranks if you create an attack manually. This fix will come with the next version.
• Lock Out Cost for Skill now changes to Unlock Cost for Skill if it is locked out.
• Offensive Information will delete the proper attack, instead of the attack just above the one you selected.
• Agile Defense was missing from the Harp Fantasy Database. I have added it as Agile Defense, including it as Swashbuckler in the description. I have declined to make it Agile Defense/Swashbuckler because Martial Law contains the talent Swashbuckler. Even though they are the same it is nice to be able to search for either talent.
• Toolbar now shows tooltips.
• Harp Sci-Fi database has been updated to change any reference to the Stat name Intuition to Insight
• Minimum penalty for armor now adjusts properly.
• Entertainer profession from Harp Sci-Fi now lists the right talents
• Professions with their own spell list now have their spells show up when adding profession ranks in the Mystical Arts category.
• Can now remove adolescence ranks in the New Charcter wizard
• Fixed the shortcuts under the File menu.
• Removed the Help button from the New Character wizard and the New Level wizard.

Purchase the full Harp Fantasy Database: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/115091/AutoHARP-Fantasy
Purchase the full Harp Sci-Fi Database: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/115095/AutoHARP-SF
Download AutoHARP: https://sourceforge.net/projects/autoharpsuite/
Submit bugs, enhancement requests: https://sourceforge.net/p/autoharpsuite/tickets/?source=navbar
News: http://autoharpsuite.blogspot.com/

You go to http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php to ask questions or you can post them to the discussion board on the SourceForge website.

AutoHARP is supported under Windows XP/7/8 Sorry but I cannot support customization to the databases. I only support the databases as they are packaged at RPGNow.

New Video Tutorials Now on YouTube

I've whipped up a few online video tutorials to help with using AutoHARP. They are

Part 1: Installation and Initialization of AutoHARP

Part 2: Creating a New Character Sheet

Part 3: Character Maintenance

Part 4: Adding a Level to Your Character

Part 5: Finishing off our character Sheet

Part 6: Advanced Features: Adding a race and profession

Part 7: Advanced Features Continued

More video tutorials to come. If people have questions about the application I may put together a Q&A video.

AutoHARP is officially available on RPGNow

I wanted to give people here a few helpful links.

Purchase the full Harp Fantasy Database: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/115091/AutoHARP-Fantasy
Purchase the full Harp Sci-Fi Database: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/115095/AutoHARP-SF
Download AutoHARP: https://sourceforge.net/projects/autoharpsuite/
Submit bugs, enhancement requests: https://sourceforge.net/p/autoharpsuite/tickets/?source=navbar
News: http://autoharpsuite.blogspot.com/

You go to http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php to ask questions or you can post them to the discussion board on the SourceForge website.

Right now AutoHARP works for Windows XP and Windows 7. I have not tested the application under Windows 2003, Vista or 8. I would be interested from anyone who runs either of these Operating systems to let me know if the application works under them. AutoHARP is soon to be released under Ubuntu and should work for versions from 10.04 and up. I currently have someone helping me out on that end. Installation on Ubuntu will require the Java Runtime Environment to be installed on your machine so you can run a JAR file. I am uncertain about any other Linux distros and have been warned that AutoHARP may not work under them without a proper debian package.

Another thing to note. Although I have mentioned this software is open source and freeware (it's the databases you are purchasing that are under commercial license) I don't have a recent upload of the source code. I am having difficulty getting an SVN to run here where I am living. They have a very particular proxy server set up and TortoiseSVN doesn't like it very much or the proxy server doesn't like TortoiseSVN. Either way, until I can figure out the issue, the code available is a very dated, very old build.

Again, thanks for purchasing the Full databases and for using AutoHARP.

AutoHARP to be officially released Friday June 7th

I have just received confirmation from Iron Crown that the full Harp Fantasy database will be available on OneBookShelf on Friday June 7th. The full database for Harp Sci-Fi will be released the following day, Saturday. I am excited to be able to share the full blown AutoHARP application. There are plans to have additional databases included such as Sci-Fi Extreme, Martial Law and College of Magics.

A word about the installation files. For Windows users the installation file is an .exe so installation should be normal. For Linux I have done something a bit different. I have used an installer program called IzPack which is cross platform and creates a .jar file. In order to run this .jar you must have the Java Runtime Environment installed on your computer. For Ubuntu users I think JRE is automatically installed but I'm not entirely sure. If not it should be easily available from the Ubuntu Software program. I did it this way because I have tried unsuccessfully to create debian packages and IzPack actually worked and was a lot easier to setup and maintain.

Here are some important links for AutoHarp

AutoHARP on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/autoharpsuite/
To submit a bug or enhancement request: https://sourceforge.net/p/autoharpsuite/tickets/?source=navbar
To discuss or ask questions about AutoHARP: https://sourceforge.net/p/autoharpsuite/discussion/
Wiki site for AutoHARP (FAQ): https://sourceforge.net/p/autoharpsuite/wiki/Home/

I plan to create a demo that will go over the high level usage of the application.

Thanks again and I hope you enjoy AutoHARP!