Pathfinder Creature Parser - Alpha release

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Originally Posted by madman

I was just wondering no that you have worked through doing the Monster Parser, Is there any chance for a spell parser (PLEASE) Feat Parser (Please)

Would it be Worth it to do.

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I hadn't really thought too much about spells and feats - probably because I usually GM on Fantasy Grounds, not play.

But, I have the code infrastructure sorted out for creating FG modules and spells and feats would be much, much easier to parse than creatures so I'll look into it...

What are you thinking about - seperate feat & spell modules or feats and spells in one module. That is would we want to create "the big module of every feat" and a seperate "the even bigger module of every spell" or allow creating "Ultimate Combat" and "Ultimate Magic" modules???

I suppose doing one and gettting to other isn't too hard - as long as you don't mind a little bit of xml editing!

UPDATE - 16th November 2011. Full Version 1.0.0.12

See post #1 for download and more details.

New features/items fixed:

• All ranged attacks now have "ranged" attack type. Previously these would have defaulted to "melee".
• Spells known and Spells Prepared now include class name.
• More meaningful (or confusing?) error messages.
• Parser version included in definition.xml

I was thinking about the third party stuff. i.e. 101 spells by rite publishing i think is 909 spells to add by hand (OUCH) and I am sure that we will have a ton of feats and spells coming soon from Paizo soon. There are a ton of them not in a mod at this point. not sure the best way to do it other than a couple of mods, one feats one spells. Since they are only used for character creation and to level up, having huge mods shouldn't be a problem. but i think the people who are active around here will chime and give give some feedback.....................................

Working on season 2 PFS Creature .mod

Chris

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Originally Posted by Trenloe

What are you thinking about - seperate feat & spell modules or feats and spells in one module. That is would we want to create "the big module of every feat" and a seperate "the even bigger module of every spell" or allow creating "Ultimate Combat" and "Ultimate Magic" modules???

I suppose doing one and gettting to other isn't too hard - as long as you don't mind a little bit of xml editing!

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I suppose both have their merits... one if you want all the options available in one place... the other if the GM restricts which ones are available for some reason.
Perhaps the best option would be to do the big feats module/big spells module but include the source somehow in each item... so that if a GM restricted use it would be easy enough to tell where that particular feat or spell came from.

Perhaps a spell module and feat module for each source?

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Originally Posted by Talysian

Perhaps a spell module and feat module for each source?

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I don't know.. I still like the idea of everything in one place. Having to sort through 3 or 4 lists of spells or feats for your class is a pain.

To be honest I'd Like the idea of one Module for everything a player needs, and one for everything a gm needs..

Any idea on how to handle traps/haunts? I've just been doing them on the fly with notes in my adventure section just curious how others handle them! Would it be worth it to do an extension to handle these or change the base coding?

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Originally Posted by Talysian

Any idea on how to handle traps/haunts? I've just been doing them on the fly with notes in my adventure section just curious how others handle them! Would it be worth it to do an extension to handle these or change the base coding?

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I've just been doing them on the fly. Adding haunts in the combat tracker if needs be (but generally not). Traps are easier to handle on the fly unless they have things such as Init, HP, etc...

But, it would be nice to have somewhere to record them and then use them in the game. An extension would definitely be the way to go - not a good idea to change the base code as you'd have to update it everytime the 3.5E ruleset was released. The way extensions work is they essentially "supercede" the base code anyway - so you're kind-of changing the base code, but you're not - if that makes sense?

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Originally Posted by Talysian

To be honest I'd Like the idea of one Module for everything a player needs, and one for everything a gm needs.

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For my initial attempt on a spell/feat parser I'm thinking of adding an additional field - Source. Which will contain the source document name the spell/feat comes from.

Then, what I am thinking of doing is have top level menus in the library of:

• Source
• Class (Spells)
• Feat Type

I haven't done anything like this before, so I'm not sure how easy it will be. Plus, in theory, there are cascading menu's - such as Source -> Class for Spells, or just Class.

So, I'll see how I go. It will be a 2 stage process anyway:

1. Parse spells and create spell entry in FG XML.
2. Create library menus in XML from parsed data

I'll start a new thread when I have something...

You sir and others who do this coding work, for community projects are what make fantasy grounds a truly enjoyable bit of software!