Pathfinder Creature Parser V2

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Originally Posted by Nylanfs

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

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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:

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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)

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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:

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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)

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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.

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?

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Originally Posted by Nylanfs

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?

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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

That worked like a dream.

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

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?

ANSI will be safest.

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

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.

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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.

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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...

If it cannot find the spell in the sourcebooks available to it, it doesn't parse it. 'madness' isn't a spell it's a domain.. so it skips it. It doesn't parse domain abilities... just spells.

Damn.. Darren was faster.

This line here:
D Domain spell; Domains Evil, Madness
I'm not sure that should have a D at the front of it... try it without that... actually.. lose the D Domain spell; bit.. I think that's what's messing you up.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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As has been mentioned by BF, the "cannot parse spell XML" warning is because it can't match the spellname indicated - this might be an indication that the spell is not actually a spell (in the case of "madness", for example) or that there are other formatting issues (if you see multiple words tied together).

Most of the ones that fail with an error when trying to format the spell like abilities is because PCGen is not generating the spell like ability list in the expected Paizo statblock standard.

For example, Vacra has: Innate Spell-Like Abilities: darkness ( 1/day)

The Paizo statblock standard, which is what the parser is expecting, would be:

Innate Spell-Like Abilities (CL 1st)
1/day-darkness

As the parser isn't encountering what it expects then it causes an error when trying to parse the spell like abilities.

Also, Master Dunrat has 2 spell classes, the parser only currently supports 1 spell class (this is mentioned in the posts at the beginning of this thread).

Okay I hadn't realized that it didn't parse two spell classes, so that is my bad. :)

I've edited all my spell-like abilities to match (this is almost enough to make me write a plain text output sheet, almost). But I can't figure out WHY it's messing up on Terjon's spells.

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1st—command (DC 14), detect chaos, magic weapon, sanctuary D (DC 14), shield of faith
0 (at will)—detect magic (2), light, read magic
D Domain spell; Domains Law, Protection
STATISTICS

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The "D" is part of the statblock for a cleric, but taking it out makes it parse. Grrr

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Originally Posted by Nylanfs

Okay I hadn't realized that it didn't parse two spell classes, so that is my bad. :)

I've edited all my spell-like abilities to match (this is almost enough to make me write a plain text output sheet, almost). But I can't figure out WHY it's messing up on Terjon's spells.

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1st—command (DC 14), detect chaos, magic weapon, sanctuary D (DC 14), shield of faith
0 (at will)—detect magic (2), light, read magic
D Domain spell; Domains Law, Protection
STATISTICS

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The "D" is part of the statblock for a cleric, but taking it out makes it parse. Grrr

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Try "D domain spell" (lower case "d" in domain).

I'll PM you a development version of the parser that might help in a couple of the fringe cases you're getting.

Okay, that fixed not finding the spells

It is still messing up on the two clerics, but the NPC importer handles them, it also handles the dual spell casters just fine. I just don't like how that tool makes a separate module for each NPC, but that's my organizational retentiveness coming out. It doesn't particularly matter because I'm going to throw them away after I get done with the module.

I think what I'll do is use the Creature Parser for most characters and then the NPC tool for clerics & trouble npc's.

Which 2 clerics are failing for you?

Have you tried the dev version I sent you?

Yes I tried that version also, it's messing up on Master Dunrat and Terjon, everything else is importing just fine. I just can NOT find why those two characters are failing, I'm in the spells somewhere (because turning off parsing doesn't throw the "Start must be greater than zero" error . And with the amount of editing that needs done (eliminating double lines from htm copy/paste, altering spell like abilities, attack blocks) I think in the next week or so I'm going to document all the issues and they try and build a plain text output sheet for PCGen that needs less massaging.

The issues are all with the spell like abilities. They need to be formatted correctly to enable the parsing. However, as Blackfoot mentioned, cleric "Domain spell-like abilities" aren't actually proper spell like abilities - as they aren't spells. See the "Invalid Spell Like Abilities entries" section in post #2 of this thread for more info.

The text below has Master Dunrat and Terjon modified so they'll parse. I removed the sorcerer spells from Master Dunrat, so there is just one spell class; and then formatted the 2 special abilities correctly. I also changed "Domain spell" to be "domain spell" but this isn't needed in the dev version I sent you.

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MASTER DUNRAT        CR 4
XP 1,200
Male human sorcerer 1 / cleric of Tharizdun 4
CE Medium humanoid (human)
Init +0; Senses Perception -1
Aura aura of chaos, aura of evil
DEFENSE
AC 16, touch 10, flat-footed 16 (+6 armor)
hp 36 (5 HD; 1d6+4d8+14)
Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +5
OFFENSE
Speed 20 ft.
Melee dagger +3 (1d4/19-20)
Ranged dagger (thrown) +3 (1d4/19-20) or crossbow, heavy +3 (1d10/19-20)
Special Attacks channel negative energy (2d6, DC 14, 3/day), elemental ray (1d6+0, 3/day), touch of evil (4/day), vision of madness (4/day)
Domain Spell-Like Abilities (CL 4th)
4/day-Touch of Evil
3/day-Elemental Ray
Cleric Spells Prepared (CL 4th, concentration +5):
2nd-death knell (DC 15), hold person (DC 15), touch of idiocy D (DC 17)
1st-bane (DC 14), cause fear (DC 14), command (DC 14), curse water (DC 14), protection from good D
0 (at will)-detect magic, light, read magic, resistance
D domain spell; Domains Evil, Madness
STATISTICS
Str 10, Dex 10, Con 14, Int 11, Wis 13, Cha 11
Base Atk +3; CMB +3; CMD 13
Feats Combat Casting, Eschew Materials, Improved Channel, Insanity, Silent Spell, Still Spell
Skills Acrobatics -3, Bluff +4, Climb -3, Diplomacy +6, Escape Artist -3, Fly -3, Heal +4, Knowledge (History) +4, Knowledge (Planes) +6, Knowledge (Religion) +7, Perception -1, Ride -3, Sense Motive -1, Spellcraft +4, Stealth -3, Survival -1, Swim -3
Languages Common
SQ aura, aura of chaos, aura of evil, bloodline arcana, bonus feat, cantrips, elemental bloodline (fire), orisons, skilled, spontaneous casting, weapon and armor proficiency, weapon and armor proficiency
Combat Gear bead of force; Other Gear masterwork breastplate, dagger, crossbow, heavy, brooch of shielding, ring of mind shielding, holy symbol (obex), bolt, crossbow (20)
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Aura (Ex) A cleric of a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful deity has a particularly powerful aura corresponding to the deity's alignment (see the detect evil spell for details).
Aura of Chaos (Ex) You project a moderate chaotic aura.
Aura of Evil (Ex) You project a moderate evil aura.
Bloodline Arcana Whenever you cast a spell that deals energy damage, you can change the type of damage to fire. This also changes the spell's type to Fire.
Bonus Feat Humans select one extra feat at 1st level.
Cantrips You learn a number of cantrips, or 0-level spells. These spells are cast like any other spells, but they do not consume any slots and may be used again.
Channel Negative Energy (Su) You can unleash a wave of negative energy dealing 2d6 (DC 14 for half) 3/day.
Domains
Elemental Bloodline (Fire) The power of the elements resides in you, and at times you can hardly control its fury.
Elemental Ray (Sp) You can unleash an elemental ray as a standard action, targeting any foe within 30 feet as a ranged touch attack. This ray deals 1d6 points of fire damage. You can use this ability 3 times per day.
Eschew Materials
Orisons You can prepare a number of orisons, or 0-level spells. These spells are cast like any other spells, but they are not expended when used and may be used again.
Skilled Humans gain an additional skill rank at first level and one additional rank whenever they gain a level.
Spontaneous Casting You can channel stored spell energy into inflict spells that you did not prepare ahead of time.
Touch of Evil (Sp) You can cause a creature to become sickened as a melee touch attack.
Vision of Madness (Sp) You can give a creature a vision of madness as a melee touch attack.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency Clerics are proficient with all simple weapons, light armor, medium armor, and shields (except tower shields). Clerics are also proficient with the favored weapon of their deity.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency Sorcerers are proficient with all simple weapons. They are not proficient with any type of armor or shield. Armor of any type interferes with a sorcerer's gestures, which can cause his spells with somatic components to fail.

TERJON        CR 5
XP 1,600
Male human cleric of St. Cuthbert 6
LG Medium humanoid (human)
Init +1; Senses Perception +3
Aura aura of law
DEFENSE
AC 21, touch 13, flat-footed 19 (+6 armor, +1 deflection, +1 Dex, +1 dodge, +2 shield)
hp 55 (6d8+24)
Fort +10, Ref +5, Will +10
Defensive Abilities resistant touch (6/day);
OFFENSE
Speed 20 ft.
Melee mace +1 (heavy) +6 (1d8+1)
Ranged crossbow, light +5 (1d8/19-20)
Special Attacks channel positive energy (3d6, DC 12, 2/day)
Domain Power Spell-Like Abilities (CL 6th)
6/day-Resistant Touch, Touch of Law
Cleric Spells Prepared (CL 6th, concentration +9):
3rd-daylight, magic circle against chaos D, prayer, searing light
2nd-bear's endurance, bull's strength, hold person (DC 15), remove paralysis, shield other D
1st-command (DC 14), detect chaos, magic weapon, sanctuary D (DC 14), shield of faith
0 (at will)-detect magic (2), light, read magic
D domain spell; Domains Law, Protection
STATISTICS
Str 11, Dex 13, Con 16, Int 10, Wis 16, Cha 8
Base Atk +4; CMB +4; CMD 17
Feats Brew Potion, Combat Casting, Dodge, Weapon Focus (Mace (Heavy))
Skills Acrobatics -6, Acrobatics (Jump) -10, Climb -7, Craft (Alchemy) +4, Diplomacy +4, Escape Artist -6, Fly -6, Heal +10, Knowledge (Arcana) +6, Knowledge (Religion) +6, Ride -6, Sense Motive +7, Spellcraft +7, Stealth -6
Languages Common
SQ aura, aura of law, bonus feat, orisons, skilled, spontaneous casting, touch of law (6/day)
Combat Gear potion of delay poison, potion of lesser restoration, scroll (cure light wounds), scroll (dispel magic); Other Gear chainmail, mace +1 (heavy), crossbow, light, shield, heavy wooden, ring of protection +1, coin (gold piece) (69), bolt, crossbow (20)
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Aura (Ex) A cleric of a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful deity has a particularly powerful aura corresponding to the deity's alignment (see the detect evil spell for details).
Aura of Law (Ex) You project a strong lawful aura.
Bonus Feat Humans select one extra feat at 1st level.
Channel Positive Energy (Su) You can unleash a wave of positive energy. You must choose to deal 3d6 points of positive energy damage to undead creatures or to heal living creatures of 3d6 points of damage. Creatures that take damage from channeled energy receive a DC 12 Will save to halve the damage. You can use this ability 2 times per day.
Orisons You can prepare a number of orisons, or 0-level spells. These spells are cast like any other spells, but they are not expended when used and may be used again.
Resistant Touch (Sp) As a standard action, you can touch an ally and grant them your +2 resistance bonus for 1 minute. When you use this ability, you lose your resistance bonus granted by the Protection domain for 1 minute. You can use this ability 6 times per day.
Skilled Humans gain an additional skill rank at first level and one additional rank whenever they gain a level.
Spontaneous Casting You can channel stored spell energy into healing spells that you did not prepare ahead of time. You can "lose" any prepared spell that is not an orison or domain spell in order to cast any cure spell of the same spell level or lower (a cure spell is any spell with "Cure" in its name).
Touch of Law (Sp) You can touch a willing creature as a standard action, infusing it with the power of divine order and allowing it to treat all attack rolls, skill checks, ability checks, and saving throws for 1 round as if the natural d20 roll resulted in an 11. You can use this ability 6 times per day.

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I swore that I had formatted those like you have and it failed on me. I'm still going to be looking at making a better output though.

Also the NPC import makes the cleric's combat abilities (positive/negative blast) a spell section, that's kinda nice.

Found out how to place the magical bonus in front of the weapon, There's a set called PCGen Re-namer that puts the plus in front of the items, Having slashes in the names though are screwing up the weapon attack blocks.

Can someone tell me why I keep getting errors. Its only creating 11 of the 13 mobs. I can't figure it out. Thanks

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Originally Posted by Error Message

Reading data file: C:\users\kiron\Desktop\Aaron Pathfinder\GM. Silver Hex Chronicles\SilverHex Creatures.txt
Logging to: C:\users\kiron\Desktop\Aaron Pathfinder\GM. Silver Hex Chronicles\SilverHex Creatures.txt.log
Formatting creature stat block: Rhiannon Sarvio CR 3
Formatting creature stat block: Triumph CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: Zephyr CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: Sicklewit CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: Elk CR 2
Formatting creature stat block: Local Celebrity CR 2
Formatting creature stat block: Brigand CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: Rager CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: Giant Spider CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: Ulisha CR 1
Formatting creature stat block: Striker CR 1
Processing creature: Rhiannon Sarvio
Processing creature: Triumph
Processing creature: Zephyr
Processing creature: Sicklewit
Processing creature: Elk
Processing creature: Local Celebrity
Processing creature: Brigand
Processing creature: Rager
Processing creature: Giant Spider
Processing creature: Ulisha
Processing creature: Striker
Error in ReadWriteFormattedCreature, Message: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
Processing creature:
Error in ReadWriteFormattedCreature, Message: The empty string '' is not a valid local name.
Error in btnStartParse_Click, Message: The Writer is closed or in error state.

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Originally Posted by Trueshots

Can someone tell me why I keep getting errors. Its only creating 11 of the 13 mobs. I can't figure it out. Thanks

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The info provided doesn't help with troubleshooting at all - it will be an issue in the format of the statblocks you're using. Go through the instructions in post #2 of this thread. Also look at the .fpf file produced by the parser - this is an intermediary file that puts the data from the statblock into fixed statblock sections - you can usually spot an issue with a particular statblock by looking at this file: if data is being stored in the wrong section then look at the statblock around the point that the data stopped being stored in the right section.

If you still have issues then see the last paragraph of post #2 for the information I'll need to troubleshoot.

Were these creating using PCGen? If so I've found that several of the class abilities and feats are missing ending periods.

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Originally Posted by Trenloe

Go through the instructions in post #2 of this thread.

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went through post 1-4 last night a number of times

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Originally Posted by Trenloe

Also look at the .fpf file produced by the parser - this is an intermediary file that puts the data from the stat block into fixed stat block sections - you can usually spot an issue with a particular stat block by looking at this file: if data is being stored in the wrong section then look at the statblock around the point that the data stopped being stored in the right section.

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I am no able to open the file .txt.fpf what program do I need to open and look at that? I Googles it and it says its an IKEA home store file???

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Originally Posted by Trenloe

If you still have issues then see the last paragraph of post #2 for the information I'll need to troubleshoot.

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I've done. I'm adding some pic so you can see a few of the errors that are inside the ones that actually do import, but import incorrectly.

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Originally Posted by Nylanfs

Were these creating using PCGen? If so I've found that several of the class abilities and feats are missing ending periods.

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No just copy pasting into a text doc, then loading into the creature parser, then parsing.

Lastly when I copy and past into the text editor, how much editing to I need to do once its in there. Ill give an example below:


[When I first copy and paste I get this]
Trumph CR 1
XP 1
N Tiny animal
Init +3; Senses low-light vision; Perception +14
Defense
AC 15, touch 15, flatfooted
12 (+3 Dex,
+2 size)
hp 4 (1d8)
Fort +2, Ref +5,
Will +2
Offense
Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft.
(average)
Melee 2 talons +5 (1d4–2)
Space 2-1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Statistics
Str 6, Dex 17, Con 11, Int 2, Wis
14, Cha 7
Base Atk +0; CMB +1; CMD 9
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Fly +7, Perception +14; Racial Modifier
+8 Perception
Ecolo gy
Environment temperate forests
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure none

[I then edit it to look like this]
Triumph CR 1
XP 1
N Tiny animal
Init +3; Senses low-light vision; Perception +14
Defense
AC 15, touch 15, flatfooted 12 (+3 Dex, +2 size)
hp 4 (1d8)
Fort +2, Ref +5, Will +2
Offense
Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft. (average)
Melee 2 talons +5 (1d4–2)
Space 2-1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Statistics
Str 6, Dex 17, Con 11, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 7
Base Atk +0; CMB +1; CMD 9
Feats Weapon Finesse
Skills Fly +7, Perception +14; Racial Modifier +8 Perception
Ecology
Environment temperate forests
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure none


Am I doing something wrong by editing it further to make sure the stats don't go to another line, etc?

What editor are you using? Notepad or something similar? It seems like you are getting extra formatting characters in there... you want to be using clean text files. It might be best if you were to upload the text file you are working with.

Black, I'm using Text wrangler for Mac. Give me about 2 mins and I'll up load the actually .txt file. There's something I'm continually not doing or not understanding how to fix. I've never just put the info in and it work I always spend hours getting it to work.

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Originally Posted by Blackfoot

It might be best if you were to upload the text file you are working with.

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can't upload a .txt file to the forums, its not a proper extension, but check you Skype if your around, i sent it to you there, if you have a sec to look at it

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Originally Posted by Trueshots

I am no able to open the file .txt.fpf what program do I need to open and look at that?

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It's a plain text file, open it in a text editor.

ZIP the .txt file you're using and attached the ZIP file here.

And the base .txt file you're using should be in ANSI text encoding to keep it to a bare minimum of text. Set your text editor to use ANSI encoding, if the one you're using doesn't support it then find another that does.

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Originally Posted by Trenloe

It's a plain text file, open it in a text editor.

ZIP the .txt file you're using and attached the ZIP file here.

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Theres numbers options with in my text editor as well. Plain text, rich text, html. etc.....I assume just choose plain text?

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Originally Posted by Trueshots

Theres numbers options with in my text editor as well. Plain text, rich text, html. etc.....I assume just choose plain text?

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Plain text with ANSI encoding. The text file you attached is using UTF-8 encoding and that introduces bad characters in the text (mostly where hyphens are, but not limited to that). Find a way to run your text editor in ANSI encoding, then go through the text file looking for weird looking characters.

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Originally Posted by Trenloe

Plain text with ANSI encoding. The text file you attached is using UTF-8 encoding and that introduces bad characters in the text (mostly where hyphens are, but not limited to that). Find a way to run your text editor in ANSI encoding, then go through the text file looking for weird looking characters.

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Yea I think this is a Mac thing....again....there is no option on 3 different mac editors that I've downloaded for the Ansi that you're speaking of. If anyone knows of one let me know, I'll purchase this it, I'm just tired of having some many problems making games....

Ok may have the answer. Everything on Google is saying to use Text Wrangler and choose Western (Windows Latin 1). This is suppose to be the equivalent. But there are 3 options i need to pick from could you guys tell me what to choose? Thanks

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Originally Posted by Trueshots

But there are 3 options i need to pick from could you guys tell me what to choose? Thanks

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Windows. Try it, see what happens.

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Originally Posted by Trueshots

Theres numbers options with in my text editor as well. Plain text, rich text, html. etc.....I assume just choose plain text?

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Having a quick look, there are a few issues in these statblocks:

• The celebrity has "o" (oh) instead for 0 for the 0 level spells.
• The rager doesn't have the init/senses line, also there is no alignment in the type. This is causing this statblock and the following to get mixed together.
• The Striker doesn't have a proper alignment and type (which is causing an error) nor does it have a class and level, but this is not required whereas proper type is.

I'm sure there's more but those are at first glance.

@Trenloe, think I finally got it. It has to be put in TextWrangler on the settings I mentioned is the only way you can get those funky characters that come from an improper copy paste. It worked perfect after I fixed that except there was 1 creature I could not parse i tried forever. I simply copied and pasted him into another .txt file and parsed separately and he looks perfect. No clue why it wouldn't do it with the others! As always thanks for the help!

I like using jEdit personally.

Hi Trenloe i''m getting this error meassage in Fantasy groun
Database Error: A XML parse error occurred processing file pfs615v2:db.xml - Error on line 397: Error reading end tag.

it parses fine in the tool

I have checked line 397 but can't see any problem