Patch Notes

Smart Sticky Headroom Navigation: The global top navigation bar now stays effortlessly accessible across long pages. It dynamically tucks away on downward scrolling to maximize your reading and world-building canvas, then slides smoothly back into view with backdrop blur and depth shadowing upon scrolling up.

Streamlined Visitor Navigation: Refined the top navbar for prospective Game Masters and unauthenticated visitors. Removed redundant nested dropdowns and direct community links in favor of an uncluttered, focused primary menu (Pricing, Roadmap, Patch Notes, Guide, and Support).

Floating Quick Navigation Astrolabe: Introduced an interactive floating dock with an SVG circular scroll progress ring, an instant Ascend to Top button, and an expandable Quick Navigation menu with live section tracking across the entire homepage.

Authentic Cartography Pin & Context Bubble: Upgraded the homepage Cartography showcase to feature authentic production pins (.map-pin), hover labels, and the interactive #marker-context-bubble details card complete with location artwork, coordinate metadata, and instant dossier inspection.

Authentic Story Board Mentions & Lore Tooltips: Replaced static demonstration tags in the Story Board showcase with genuine @mention prose links and interactive lore cards, showing live portraits, entity tags, and lore snippets on hover without visual clutter.

Extra Features & Leaderboard Showcase Polish: Rebranded the section to Extra Features and updated the contextual tooltips card to highlight in-app guidance and quick-tips. Reframed the Goblin Hoarders Leaderboard showcase to prominently feature top creator rankings and coin tallies.

Interactive FAQ Accordion: Added a comprehensive, fantasy-themed FAQ section to the homepage answering essential questions regarding Game Master workflows, DM secret privacy, multi-system support, Bazaar content sharing, and 1-click Obsidian vault export data ownership.

Headline & Narrative Copy Polish: Refined hero headlines and callouts across the landing page to emphasize core value props ("Organize Your Story", "Free to use! Forever!", "Ready-to-use stories!", "Own your data with our exporter").

1-Click Obsidian Vault Exporter: Export entire campaigns to desktop Obsidian as an organized .zip archive. Generates a comprehensive 00_Overview.md Map of Content (MOC), structured categorized notes in Codex/ with YAML frontmatter properties, embedded local WebP portraits, native [[wikilinks]], Story Binder chapters, local offline Attachments/, and pre-seeded .obsidian/app.json settings.

Native DM Secret Admonitions: Encrypted Game Master secrets are seamlessly translated during export into native Obsidian admonition callouts (> [!danger] DM Secret), preserving private notes for offline prep.

Frictionless Drag-and-Drop Vault Importer: Migrate notes from desktop Obsidian directly into Nebula via a dedicated import portal. The intelligent parser extracts YAML frontmatter properties, tags, and folder hierarchies; converts image attachments via the WebP Lanczos compression pipeline; dynamically generates missing blueprint schemas; and reconstructs [[wikilinks]] into live database relationship graphs.

Full-Bleed Canvas & Footer Suppression: Suppressed the global footer across the interactive cartography page, maximizing the map canvas to a full-bleed workspace and eliminating awkward double scrollbars.

Collapsible Symmetrical Left Toolbox: Framed flush against the left screen edge, matching the geometry and dark-wood styling of the right archives drawer. Features a pinned collapse header action with smooth sliding transitions.

Edge Toggle Tab & Hover Peek: When collapsed, a vertical "TOOLBOX" edge tab appears on the left margin. Hovering over the tab gently nudges the toolbox 16px into view with cubic-bezier easing, mirroring the right archives drawer.

Decoupled Dual-Sidebar Architecture: Completely eliminated pointer interference between panels. GMs can freely open, close, or operate both the left toolbox and right map archives drawer simultaneously without cross-panel toggling bugs.

Gentle Multiplicative Zoom & Trackpad Dampening: Replaced fixed-step linear zoom with an exponential multiplicative zoom algorithm (Math.exp(-delta * 0.0012)) featuring delta clamping, eliminating over-sensitive trackpad zoom-out collapses on macOS for a buttery, granular zoom experience.

Live Hands-On Campaign Exploration: Prospective adventurers and Game Masters can now test-drive Nebula without creating an account. Clicking "Try Example Project" launches directly into /campaigns/example/—a fully realized, living fantasy realm.

Populated Lore & Interactive Cartography: Includes 26 interconnected entities, high-resolution continental cartography with placed map pins, episodic Story Binder chapters, custom blueprint schemas, and hierarchical faction structures.

Frictionless Guest Access: Guests have complete read and navigation access across all primary campaign views without login interruptions or access walls, guided by an ambient demo banner and quick tools dropdown.

Edge-to-Edge Canvas: Rebuilt the homepage with an expansive, edge-to-edge layout that eliminates claustrophobic margins and background repetition, presenting a modern, cinematic entryway into the universe.

Engineered for Real GM Table Struggles: Reordered the feature showcase around the authentic challenges of running tabletop games: tackling prep fatigue before session one, managing unexpected player travel detours on the fly, and eliminating awkward mid-session pauses to look up forgotten lore.

Core Feature Keyword Badges: Integrated clean, non-intrusive SVG badge tags under feature narratives (e.g. Zero prep fatigue, Hide secrets from players, Re-use templates, Connect everything) highlighting practical utility without cluttering artwork.

Asymmetric Power Tools Bento Mosaic: Showcases Nebula's specialized tools in a dynamic visual mosaic featuring the Quick Action Wheel, Adventurers' Forum, Smart @Mentions, Goblin Hoarders leaderboard, and DM Secret & Visibility controls.

Marketplace Front & Center: Positioned the Global Bazaar directly beneath the hero section to immediately offer DMs plug-and-play one-shots, drop-in dungeons, and modular taverns that eliminate hours of prep work.

Multi-Entity Bundles: GMs can now package and export related groups of entities, blueprints, and assets into cohesive adventure bundles. Includes intelligent auto-selection of @mentioned entities and recursive child elements with clean campaign remapping.

Content Moderation & Legal Protection: Added robust reporting tools for undisclosed AI content, malicious entries, and copyright concerns with an automated quarantine pipeline. Backed by updated Terms of Service and European DSA & US DMCA compliant notice-and-takedown protocols.

Dedicated Hover Attribution Bar: Artwork and portraits feature a dark-fantasy frosted glass attribution banner sliding up on hover, presenting the artist's name, external portfolio link, and quick edit controls.

"Store Once, Credit Everywhere": Cartographers and illustrators added to the Asset Library automatically carry their attribution whenever their assets are bound to entity portraits or blueprint image fields.

Hall of Artists Directory: A campaign-wide creator directory accessible from campaign tools and asset modals, aggregating all credited creators with live gallery search, artwork counts, and portfolio links.

Bazaar Attribution Preservation: Artist credits are permanently preserved across exports, acquisitions, and community remixes, ensuring illustrators receive recognition across the multiverse.

The Codex Fast Pagination: Upgraded Codex browsing with interactive numeric page jump controls and First (<<) / Last (>>) navigation backed by instant zero-reload AJAX search.

Cartography Sticky Header: The left cartography panel features a fixed sticky header with an independent scroll body, eliminating layout shifting and keeping the campaign switcher and search permanently pinned.

Story Binder Immersion: Applied sleek cross-browser scrollbar suppression to story pages and lists, preserving smooth scrolling without visual chrome distractions.

Hierarchical Tree Drag-and-Drop: Full drag-and-drop tree re-parenting across the campaign hierarchy view, with ancestor circular reference protection and single-click Bazaar export buttons on every node.

Sortable Information Fields: Entity fields in the Personal Information section can now be reordered via drag-and-drop with a quick lock toggle to prevent accidental displacement.

Drag-and-Drop Asset Movement: Easily organize existing cartography maps and entity portraits into custom folders without re-uploading. File cards can be dragged directly onto folder tiles or into the breadcrumb path, instantly moving assets with zero reload.

Cross-Campaign Asset Library: Introduced an intuitive campaign switcher in the Asset Manager modal. Browse portraits and cartography maps across any of your campaigns; selecting or copying an asset creates an isolated, clean clone in the active campaign with fresh storage and zero pin baggage.

Context-Aware Mode Locking: Entering the Asset Library from Cartography ("Upload / Select Map") locks the modal into Cartography mode and completely conceals the Portraits tab. Conversely, picking entity blueprint art hides the Cartography tab, ensuring users cannot accidentally bind portraits as world maps.

Persistent Folder Hierarchies & Path Normalization: Pre-structure empty directories in the Asset Library before uploading files, persisting across page navigations in campaign settings. Robust bidirectional folder path normalization resolves folder discovery for imported Bazaar campaigns and AI-seeded content.

Interactive Archive Drawer Peek & Framing: Restored the smooth hover peek transition for the Known Regions drawer. Hovering over the "ARCHIVES" toggle tab peeks the drawer into view from the right margin, while clicking slides it out completely with smooth opacity transitions. Framed cleanly between the top navbar and global footer (top-[4.25rem] bottom-24) with escape and backdrop dismissal.

Placed Markers Directory & Filter Search: Left toolbox now includes an interactive directory list of all active pins on the map with real-time filter search, instant clear button, click-to-center canvas navigation with gold radar ping effect, and fixed-height scroll isolation that prevents layout jumping while typing.

Marker Quick Context Card & Debounced Bridge: Hovering over any map pin or text marker summons a fixed-scale context menu card with a debounced 220ms hover grace bridge, enabling smooth cursor transit into action buttons ("Edit", "Delete", "View Details") and single-click fast travel without microscopic icon hunting.

Map Deletion & Duplication: Safely delete unused maps from the archive drawer with cascading cleanup of pins and territories (preserving campaign entities), or clone entire maps with configurable options to duplicate entity pins, text markers, and territory polygons.

Verified Buyer Reviews & 1–5 Star Rating: Acquired adventures now support verified reviews. Buyers receive an in-app review notification banner when viewing acquired content, opening an interactive star picker with semantic quality tiers. Reviews are permanent and immutable upon submission.

Public Creator Profiles & Bazaar Reputation: Click on any creator's name or reputation badge across the Bazaar to view their dedicated public profile (/creators/<username>/). Explore their complete catalog of published works, aggregate rating, total acquisitions, and an itemized rating breakdown with buyer reviews.

"What's Inside" Manifest Explorer: Prospective buyers can inspect the full manifest of an adventure before acquiring it, including an interactive search and category filter for entities, lore documents, blueprint types, and cartography maps with safe preview excerpts (DM secrets redacted).

Divine & Admin Repostable Community Content: Divine tier and Staff creators can upload campaign starters with "Allow Community Reposting" enabled. Other adventurers can import, modify, and re-export the campaign as a remix, while permanently and automatically preserving original author attribution.

Smart Campaign Naming: Campaign imports now preserve the original adventure name cleanly without appending an (Acquired) suffix unless necessary to disambiguate from an existing campaign of the same name.

Customizable Entity Duplication: Introduced a dedicated dark-fantasy modal for duplicating entities directly from the Entity Detail toolbar and Hierarchy Tree view. Supports inline renaming, optional recursive branch/descendant duplication, toggling content/attribute inclusion, and publish mode selection.

Inline Field Editing: Added granular editing for individual fields on Entity Detail pages via a pencil icon. Edit field names, data types, column span (1–4), and row height (1–4). Customizations apply entity-specific overrides without altering the shared blueprint or affecting other entities.

Unified Text Fields: Consolidated single-line and multi-line text into a single intuitive "Text" field type across blueprints and custom fields, maintaining 100% backwards compatibility with existing records.

Ambient Blurred Backdrop Framing: Replaced aggressive image cropping with uncropped full-aspect framing. Empty negative space is filled with an ambient blurred, dimmed backdrop matching the artwork's color palette so 100% of the art is visible without clipping.

Click-to-Zoom Fullscreen Lightbox: Clicking directly on artwork opens an immersive dark-fantasy fullscreen lightbox modal displaying the high-resolution artwork unconstrained, with hover zoom cues and Esc / backdrop dismissal.

Quick Art Controls & Minimum 2×2 Sizing: Contextual hover controls provide quick "Change Art" (camera icon in top-left) and "Clear Art" (trash icon in top-right) with event isolation. Image fields now enforce a minimum 2×2 grid size with auto-jump sizing when switching field types.

Bundle Types & Entity Counts: Bazaar items now support distinct "Bundle Types" with precise tracking of exactly how many entities are included in a bundle.

Bazaar Spotlight: Introduced a new "Spotlight" system to highlight exceptional, community-made homebrew content on the Bazaar homepage.

AI-Assisted Tags: Added transparency flags allowing creators to mark Bazaar bundles as "AI-Assisted" if AI tools were used in their creation.

Bazaar Export Fixes: Fixed JSON serialization type errors with UUIDs and improved legacy field mapping (`width_col`, `height_row`, `layout`) when acquiring or cloning a campaign from the Bazaar.

Global Story Mentions: You can now directly `@mention` story board pages inside any entity. They correctly link to the individual story page, and if you rename the story, all existing `@mentions` across your entire campaign instantly sync to the new name!

Campaign Resilience: Hardened the campaign view architecture against empty slugs and malformed JSON data, preventing crashes for edge-case campaign states.

Per-Map Marker Colors: DMs can now fully customize the color of all map markers (entity pins, map links, and text labels) on a per-map basis. If a map has a yellow-heavy background, you can quickly switch the marker color to red, blue, or anything else using the new color picker and HEX input directly in the map toolbox!

Territory Drawing Tool: A new "Territory" tool has been added to the Cartography map toolbox. Dungeon Masters can now draft multi-point polygons to outline kingdoms, hazard zones, or custom borders directly on their maps.

Dynamic Overlays & Tooltips: Territories render as transparent polygons that fill with a custom selected color when hovered, ensuring maps stay uncluttered. A custom trailing tooltip follows your cursor over the territory to display its name.

Bazaar Economy & Transfers: Implemented a live player-to-player currency exchange system. When you acquire a premium item from the Bazaar, the Goblin Coins or Platinum are instantly transferred from your wallet directly into the creator's wallet!

Advanced Community Protection: Integrated a robust automated profanity filter across the platform. The system now actively scans and blocks inappropriate language during User Registration, when publishing Custom Blueprints, and when posting in the Community Forum, ensuring a safe environment for all adventurers.

Mandatory Email Verification: Overhauled the account registration flow. Accounts now require email verification to ensure security and prevent spam. New users are seamlessly guided to a verification waiting screen, and invited players bypass redundant screens and join campaigns instantly upon verifying.

Unified Campaign Dashboard: Refactored the dashboard to display both your owned campaigns and campaigns you have joined as a player in one unified view. Added clear 'DM' and 'PLAYER' badges to instantly distinguish your role.

Live Subscription Limits: The dashboard now calculates and displays your real, dynamic storage limits based on your active Subscription Tier. (Player-joined campaigns do not count against your limits).

Support Contact Portal: Added a dedicated Contact Support form to contact our team directly.

Community Leaderboard: Introduced a community leaderboard to track the most active users.

Profile Enhancements: Added support for custom Display Names and Profile Pictures in your User Profile.