JCSP character management tool

[Kraydak]

I like it, but ran into 2 issues.

(1) Enhanced parry (1 Weapon) and Unarmed were costed at 6 points rather than 5. This is significant for DF characters.

(2) Shadowform (No Encumbrance +10%) came out to 56 points, rather than 55. I think this was due to the odd rounding you were doing. I don't know my Javascript, but replacing the code segment in traits.js with:

var multiplier = 100+enhLimSum+1/fCost/10;
fCost *= multiplier;
fCost *= 0.01;
fCost = Math.floor(fCost);

seems to do the trick.

[jcsp]

I'm working on a way to print four of the NPC cards on a single page. Turns out to be tricky. I'll let you know when I get it to work.

[dom1]

Originally Posted by jcsp

I'm working on a way to print four of the NPC cards on a single page. Turns out to be tricky. I'll let you know when I get it to work.

That will be a really useful feature, I've been playing around with the new 3e NPC card to generate random NPC's for my campaign and it works well so a way to print off these new characters en masse will be very welcome.

No problems encountered with the new features to date Jim but I'll keep testing ;)

[Joseph Paul]

Alright I did a stoopid - The skills pick list has a grab bar at the top. Currently that bar is tucked under the header bar of the page and I can't 'grab' it with my cursor. Firefox on a Vista machine. How do I get it to move again?

[jcsp]

Originally Posted by Joseph Paul

Alright I did a stoopid - The skills pick list has a grab bar at the top. Currently that bar is tucked under the header bar of the page and I can't 'grab' it with my cursor. Firefox on a Vista machine. How do I get it to move again?

Refreshing the page should restore the dialog box location to its default. Your character should be safely restored from the browser localstorage, but if it makes you nervous you can save before refreshing the page.

Jim

[jcsp]

Originally Posted by Joseph Paul

Alright I did a stoopid - The skills pick list has a grab bar at the top. Currently that bar is tucked under the header bar of the page and I can't 'grab' it with my cursor. Firefox on a Vista machine. How do I get it to move again?

By the by, I'm happy to find that there are GURPS players in my neighborhood! I'm down in Bloomington, where even the folks running the local game shop have never heard of GURPS.

[jcsp]

Originally Posted by Kraydak

(1) Enhanced parry (1 Weapon) and Unarmed were costed at 6 points rather than 5. This is significant for DF characters.

Yep, that seems to have been a typo in my 4th edition library file. I will try to upload the edit to my site in the next day or two. Thanks for letting me know.

Originally Posted by Kraydak

(2) Shadowform (No Encumbrance +10%) came out to 56 points, rather than 55. I think this was due to the odd rounding you were doing. I don't know my Javascript, but replacing the code segment in traits.js with:

var multiplier = 100+enhLimSum+1/fCost/10;
fCost *= multiplier;
fCost *= 0.01;
fCost = Math.floor(fCost);

seems to do the trick.

Well, shoot. I assume if you saw the code you have edited above, you also saw my comment above it about the frustrations of javascript arithmetic. I will spend a little more time on that ridiculous line, and see if I can get it to come out right for both your case and the others I was trying to fix simultaneously.

Again, thank you for reporting!

Jim

[jcsp]

I have posted a couple of changes to v1.8 on my website. I have corrected the rounding problem reported by Kraydak (also corrected the typo), and the corrected code has been added to the 'live' version on my website. The changes were not added to the download package; if anybody really needs that, please let me know, otherwise it will be part of v1.9.

I also added two NPC card sheet pages, one each for 3rd and 4th edition NPC cards. These should be considered very beta; they only work under certain conditions, which are described near the links. Still, when everything works you can now print out NPCs four per page.

[jcsp]

I found some software I wrote a few years ago to generate names for fantasy culture characters: elves, dwarves, etc. The names you get are interesting, and sometimes good, so I decided to integrate it into JCSP; version 1.9 will include it.

If you need a name generator now, I also made that code into a little app on my website JCSP page. Look for the link just above the "JCSP updates" section header.

[Joseph Paul]

Originally Posted by jcsp

By the by, I'm happy to find that there are GURPS players in my neighborhood! I'm down in Bloomington, where even the folks running the local game shop have never heard of GURPS.

<Waves!> Have you found the circuit of Central Indiana gaming cons? Boosting the signal at those might prove fruitful.