5E - Table Importer

[Myrdin Potter]

Right now the real utility of this is that I just need to clean out the extra LF characters you get from copying from a PDF. There is a comma-separated table input extension here on the forums as well, except that , is used all the time so I never was able to really use it.

The only pain was longer tables that did not increase by 1 and that feature has been added.

The way FG treats multi column tables, I have not seen much use in a rollable one.

[iotech]

I bet many users create a spreadsheet for their tables and copy from that. So the || wouldn't be hard to use. On large, multi-column tables, it would be great. There are a few tables I've wanted to create, but decided I'm not going to spend the time because they're multi-column and very large.

Of course you might confuse some programmers as || means OR in some languages if I remember correctly. ;P

&& you would be correct

[Three of Swords]

&& you would be correct

I'm glad I was !wrong.

[Bidmaron]

The way FG treats multi column tables, I have not seen much use in a rollable one.

How would you rather they work, Myrdin?

[Myrdin Potter]

Since entering a single column table is easy and you can easily call other tables from it, why co to the hassle of a multi column one?

The only use is multiple results from the same roll, but they need to all be the same row. Otherwise, what is the advantage over a single column table?

[Bidmaron]

if you can reference the column result of a row in a story template, it would be pretty useful in many cases.

[Myrdin Potter]

Or reference 2 single column tables in a template and get the same result and use Celestian’s excellent table importer?

[celestian]

Or reference 2 single column tables in a template and get the same result and use Celestian’s excellent table importer?

There is a use case for having the column tables.

You have random situations A, B and C. On B there is also the chance of D. D calls it's own table and runs through it's own randomness check.

There is no way to replicate that double column behavior with 2 tables.

Tables that come to mind where this would be useful is the AD&D treasure tables for treasure types. You have various chances to get various items (gold,silver,jewelry,magic/etc). With a single table you can generate all the rolls for each of them.

[Kanbie]

I'm just starting to draft my little helper for Magic item creation and I wouldn't mind linking tables together using your tool. Is it possible to automate table linking on this importer or would I need something more fancy?

For The table Ax example:
[Ax]
[A1] + Reference Table [Bx]
[A2] + Reference Table [Bx]
[A3] + Reference Table [Cx]
[A4]
[A5] + Reference Table [Ax]
etc.

This action is trivial in person (you just nest the table) but I'm not looking forward to the manual labor

[Myrdin Potter]

For the number parsing, doe 1 work but 1. not work? So if the table is labeled 1. 2. 3. , it will not strip the numbers?