Zacchaeus
January 23rd, 2015, 17:18
So now that I've done the PHB I've turned my attention to the DMG and I started with magic items which Xorn assured me in his video was the easiest of all to input. Well, how wrong he is :)
I've got as far as Ammunition :)
It is very, very strange. The line which seems to be causing the problem is this:
Weapon (any ammunition),uncommon (+1), rare (+2), or
very rare (+3)
If I leave it exactly as shown with a line break after the 'or' then par5e parses it. Of course the rarity type ends at 'or' and the 'very rare (+3) is stranded on the first line of the description. If I remove the 'very rare' or join it onto the 'or', par5e does not like it one little bit and won't parse; it just stops at the Alchemy jug entry above it, and won't create the xml file. In fact if I alter the first line in any way at all, par5e just will not do anything.
Thinking that this might be a common problem I scrolled down and entered:
ARMOR, +1 , +2 , OR +3
Armor (light, medium, or heavy), rare (+1), very rare (+2), or legendary(+ 3)
This seems to parse fine, except that the description stops at Armor and the light, medium etc appears on the first line of the description.
Looking again at Xorn's video and at the Par5e user guide I see that everything is based on the free DMG published as a PDF, which for these items had different description tags. I'm wondering if Par5e just can't cope with the new format in the now published book, or whether I am doing something terribly wrong?
I've got as far as Ammunition :)
It is very, very strange. The line which seems to be causing the problem is this:
Weapon (any ammunition),uncommon (+1), rare (+2), or
very rare (+3)
If I leave it exactly as shown with a line break after the 'or' then par5e parses it. Of course the rarity type ends at 'or' and the 'very rare (+3) is stranded on the first line of the description. If I remove the 'very rare' or join it onto the 'or', par5e does not like it one little bit and won't parse; it just stops at the Alchemy jug entry above it, and won't create the xml file. In fact if I alter the first line in any way at all, par5e just will not do anything.
Thinking that this might be a common problem I scrolled down and entered:
ARMOR, +1 , +2 , OR +3
Armor (light, medium, or heavy), rare (+1), very rare (+2), or legendary(+ 3)
This seems to parse fine, except that the description stops at Armor and the light, medium etc appears on the first line of the description.
Looking again at Xorn's video and at the Par5e user guide I see that everything is based on the free DMG published as a PDF, which for these items had different description tags. I'm wondering if Par5e just can't cope with the new format in the now published book, or whether I am doing something terribly wrong?