Bestiary 3- Group effort to produce PFRPG module with spells.

[RTFallen]

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In order to produce a FG module for the Pathfinder Bestiary 3 OGL content that includes spell entries, I am putting out a call for community members to help out copy/pasting the text from a Paizo Bestiary 3 PDF into a text file - do not use non-Paizo PDFs as the OCR isn't usually 100% correct and results in errors. You could use the PRD entries, but make sure you produce a text file in ANSI format that doesn't have any strange characters and remove all blank lines within an individual creature statblock. We are splitting the process up into letter portions (A-Z) to reduce the workload overall. I will then combine and run through the creature parser to produce a Bestiary 3 module that I will post in the modules thread on this forum for all to use and enjoy.

If interested community members would like to help out, reply to this thread with the letter/s section you would like to cover.

The following is a list of who is doing which section, with a status.

Letter Range	Who?	Status
A - D	RTFallen	Done.
E-G	hangarflying	Done.
H-M	darrenan	Done
N-S	RTFallen	Done.
T - Z	darrenan	Done.

Module Download: PF-SRD-Bestiary-3.zip

Attached is the end text document used to produce the FG module using the PFRPG Creature Parser v2.0.0.8.


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People contributing would need to use the latest Paizo PDF - so that the copy/paste works as closely as possible.

Would copying from the PRD work as well?

Resire

[Trenloe]

Would copying from the PRD work as well?

Resire

It's harder as the formatting doesn't come across the same. The parser was specifically written to allow direct copy/paste from the Paizo PDFs.

This doesn't mean that you can't use the PRD - but it would require further formatting to be done to make it work, which might end up with it not saving me any time if I had to reformat entries.

[darrenan]

I'll help. Just picked up a copy of the PDF. I can probably find some time this weekend to work on it. I'll tentatively take the U-Z range.

[RTFallen]

It's harder as the formatting doesn't come across the same. The parser was specifically written to allow direct copy/paste from the Paizo PDFs.

This doesn't mean that you can't use the PRD - but it would require further formatting to be done to make it work, which might end up with it not saving me any time if I had to reformat entries.

I'll see what I can do. I have the test file you gave out for the Bestiary 4 community effort, so I'll check formatting off of that.

I'll take A-D.

Resire

[Trenloe]

I'll see what I can do. I have the test file you gave out for the Bestiary 4 community effort, so I'll check formatting off of that.

Cool.

One of the big gotchas is to make sure you're using ANSI characters, not UTF-8 in the text document. If you paste into Notepad++, select Encoding -> ANSI before you paste. And, of course, removing all the blank lines after pasting. There should only be blank lines between individual creatures.

[hangarflying]

I'll help. Let me know what letter range you want me to do.

[Trenloe]

I'll help. Let me know what letter range you want me to do.

Great, thanks. How about E-G?

[hangarflying]

E-G, Roger! Is there a requested deadline, or just as soon as I can get it done? I should be able to get started on it tomorrow.

[Trenloe]

E-G, Roger! Is there a requested deadline, or just as soon as I can get it done? I should be able to get started on it tomorrow.

Within the next week or so should be fine - we don't even have all of the letters covered yet and there's been a Bestiary 3 module around for a while, so it's not super urgent but would be nice to get done...

[darrenan]

There aren't any U's, I'm doing T-Z.