AD&D 2E - Systemic Automation Failures & db.xml Parsing Corruption Report

[OUDugan]

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[Moon Wizard]

I have no idea what this is. It looks like a dump from some sort of AI session; but I have no context or even a good description of the issue.

Regards,
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[Trenloe]

As Moon Wizard mentions - it is much better for everyone to give a clear (human generated) description of the issue. In this case the AI conclusion is completely wrong. The DB XML parse error shown in Fantasy Grounds 5_1_2026_3_48_26 PM.png has absolutely nothing to do with the Universal Modules extension.

_db.xml - Notepad 5_1_2026_3_57_11 PM.png shows Unicode vales 55357;56540; (& # removed to display codes) - this is the code for the scroll emoji. Use this page to work out what codes represent: https://www.convertstring.com/EncodeDecode/HtmlDecode

This code is in the body of a Story entry called "Nerof Gasgol's correspondence to the Lord Valerian, Lord of the Keep", with the emoji being before "Letter of Marque & High Authority" I'm making an educated guess that you copy/pasted from a web page or some other external application, with the text including the scroll emoji - and it is this representation that is causing the error shown in Fantasy Grounds 5_1_2026_3_48_26 PM.png Nothing to do with the Universal Modules extension or other items eluded to in post #1. When copy/pasting anything other than plain text into FG keep on eye out for characters not displayed correctly - usually one or two little boxes, see the screenshot below for what you'll probably be seeing in your case - keep a sharp eye out of these and replace them with valid characters.

Plus, I don't know what the [S:ARCANE] comment related to.

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=67272

[OUDugan]

I'll take a different approach.

[Trenloe]

Referring to post #3 - What's interesting is that when I tested with the characters mentioned, FG doesn't raise an error - even after reloading the campaign with the unrecognized characters. The only time I get an error for the 55357;56540; characters is if I load the db.xml file outside of FG. So, yep, not really sure what the actual FG issue you're trying to report is?

[celestian]

I have no idea what this is. It looks like a dump from some sort of AI session; but I have no context or even a good description of the issue.

Regards,
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I thought it was just me ;)

[Griogre]

LOL, when I first read it, I was trying to decide if it was AI spam, but decided it was likely a human using a AI that didn't know what it was looking at - version of a bug report.

[LordEntrails]

I could tell what it was, but not what the problem was. We've been using AI generated bug reports that are very similar for a couple months now at work. But they require the user know a great deal about the development environment when creating the report. Though Gemini (which created this report) knows a lot more about FG than it did 6 months ago, it still requires a lot of correction and human oversight.

[Trenloe]

I'll take a different approach.
It's good of you to try to do some troubleshooting and provide some information. But doing this purely in AI has, as others have mentioned, unfortunately led to more confusion and questions.

It's best that you take the following steps (without AI assistance):
1) Try to recreate the issue in a new campaign without any extensions enabled and without any themes - i.e. no extensions at all.
2) If the issue still persists, recreate the issue and then compile the FG logs (details in the FG Wiki - link in my signature) and attach the resulting ZIP file here with details of the issue encountered and how to recreate.