Pathfinder Creature Parser V2

[Trenloe]

Okay I'm having some problems importing a NPC made in PCGen.

The clue's in the .fpf file: SPEED:30 ft. Ranged masterwork longbow (composite/+4) +11/+6 (1d8+4/x3)

This shows that it's having a problem around the speed and ranged sections of the Offense section. Looking at this section:

OFFENSe
Speed 30 ft.
Ranged masterwork longbow (composite/+4) +11/+6  (1d8+4/x3)
Melee battleaxe +1 +13/+8  (1d8+6/x3)
Melee shield +1 (heavy/wooden) +11/+6  (1d4+5)

The two things here are:

1. Melee should come before ranged.
2. There should only be one melee entry per statblock, not two (or more).

Change the above 4 lines to the following 3:

OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft.
Melee battleaxe +1 +13/+8  (1d8+6/x3) or shield +1 (heavy/wooden) +11/+6  (1d4+5)
Ranged masterwork longbow (composite/+4) +11/+6  (1d8+4/x3)

These changes will allow the NPC to parse.

However... When you come to open this NPC in Fantasy Grounds you will get a "Database Error: A XML parse error occurred processing file..." error raised and the NPC won't open. The most common cause of this is the format of the special abilities section (the second most common is the spell list format). FG does some nice formatting in the special abilities section - separating each one into it's own paragraph and bold highlighting the ability name. This relies on two things:

1. The special ability headings having (sp), (su) or (ex) after the title.
2. The paragraph preceeding the new special ability heading ends in a full stop (period).

Looking at the special abilities section of the statblock, the Favored Terrain (Plains) (Ex) line doesn't end in a period - add one in. Also remove the and duplicate line for "Wild Empathy" you should be able to open this NPC in FG without an issue.

[Nylanfs]

Okay I had the longbow equipped and the battle axe carried, putting both of them in the carried section fixed the order. I'll find out why PCGen is outputing the Wild Empathy line.

I'm going to work with Andrew and Stefan about getting a custom plain text output sheet for parsing. That way we don't have to do too much cutting and pasting.

Although it would be really nice to just be able to use the xml sheet that already works for importing characters wink, wink, nudge, nudge you know what I mean Doug and John?

[Trenloe]

I'm going to work with Andrew and Stefan about getting a custom plain text output sheet for parsing. That way we don't have to do too much cutting and pasting.

Although it would be really nice to just be able to use the xml sheet that already works for importing characters wink, wink, nudge, nudge you know what I mean Doug and John?

I haven't given this community app a go, so don't know how robust and detailed it is: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...Module-utility

[Nylanfs]

That worked like a dream.

[trevorgall]

Great work mate. Able to parse these critters from module, where PAR5E wasn't. Thanks heaps.

[Nylanfs]

I'm going to start talking with Andrew to get a plain text file output of the Paizo statblock outputed from PCGen. Is it better that the text be ANSI, Unicode, or UTF-8?

[Trenloe]

ANSI will be safest.

[Nylanfs]

https://jira.pcgen.org/browse/OS-394 hopefully Andrew or Stephan will be able to get to it in the next week or so.

[Nylanfs]

Okay I'm having problems figuring out why it's balking on some NPC's I'm inputting from PCGen (again).

I can see it's messing up on Chenashi, Master Dunrat, Terjon, Vacra, and Xaod. I'm not sure why it isn't parsing the Madness Domain because it is a corerulebook domain. I can't see any reason on why it's messing up on Master Dunrat's spells, it's like it isn't seeing the spaces. And I don't understand what "Error in ReadWriteFormattedCreature, Message: Argument 'Start' must be greater than zero." is trying to tell me.

I think the Parser just does NOT like casters from PCGen.

Reading data file: C:\Users\Nylanfs\Documents\PCGen_work\RttToEE_PFS\RttToEE_NPCs.txt
Logging to: C:\Users\Nylanfs\Documents\PCGen_work\RttToEE_PFS\RttToEE_NPCs.txt.log
Formatting creature stat block: CHATRILON UNOSH CR 5
Formatting creature stat block: CHENASHI CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: GRUNE  CR 1/3
Formatting creature stat block: INGRITH  CR 6
Formatting creature stat block: MARIDOSEN  CR 2
Formatting creature stat block: MASTER DUNRAT  CR 4
Formatting creature stat block: QUESTIN HIMMBLE  CR 3
Formatting creature stat block: REDITHIDOOR HALFMOON  CR 1/2
Formatting creature stat block: RUFUS  CR 7
Formatting creature stat block: SEBBEKAI  CR 1/2
Formatting creature stat block: SPUGNOIR  CR 6
Formatting creature stat block: TERJON  CR 5
Formatting creature stat block: TORIDAN  CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: VACRA  CR 2
Formatting creature stat block: XAOD THE SLAYER  CR 3
Processing creature: CHATRILON UNOSH
Processing creature: CHENASHI
Cannot find spell XML element with name <madness> cannot parse this spell - skipping.
Processing creature: GRUNE
Processing creature: INGRITH
Processing creature: MARIDOSEN
Processing creature: MASTER DUNRAT
Cannot find spell XML element with name <resistancedomainspelldomainsevil> cannot parse this spell - skipping.
Cannot find spell XML element with name <madness> cannot parse this spell - skipping.
Cannot find spell XML element with name <readmagiccleric> cannot parse this spell - skipping.
Error in ReadWriteFormattedCreature, Message: Argument 'Start' must be greater than zero.
Processing creature: QUESTIN HIMMBLE
Processing creature: REDITHIDOOR HALFMOON
Processing creature: RUFUS
Processing creature: SEBBEKAI
Processing creature: SPUGNOIR
Processing creature: TERJON
Cannot find spell XML element with name <readmagicdomainspelldomainslaw> cannot parse this spell - skipping.
Cannot find spell XML element with name <protection> cannot parse this spell - skipping.
Error in ReadWriteFormattedCreature, Message: Argument 'Start' must be greater than zero.
Processing creature: TORIDAN
Processing creature: VACRA
Error in ReadWriteFormattedCreature, Message: Argument 'Start' must be greater than zero.
Processing creature: XAOD THE SLAYER
Error in ReadWriteFormattedCreature, Message: Argument 'Start' must be greater than zero.
Written definition.xml and db.xml to : C:\Users\Nylanfs\Documents\PCGen_work\RttToEE_PFS\RttToEE_NPCs
Module file created: C:\Users\Nylanfs\Documents\PCGen_work\RttToEE_PFS\RttToEE_NPCs.mod
Parsing ended - check text above for errors.

[darrenan]

The cannot parse spell messages aren't errors, and that's pretty normal for spell like abilities that aren't in the list of spells.

Taking a look at the other errors...