10-12-2017, 01:00 AM | #1 |
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Random Spell List Generator
Has anyone ever made one for GURPS Magic? Like that you can input a few variable (like how many spells, level of Magery, etc) and it will generate a list of spells that fit?
If not.... what would be needed to build something like this? |
10-12-2017, 04:25 AM | #2 | |
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Re: Random Spell List Generator
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For the time part, I think inputting all the spell data in a computer-readable format would be more time-consuming than the actual programming, unless there's a handy list in a parseable format available somewhere. As for what language to use, it depends on the platform - if you were making an online one, for example, Javascript would probably be the best choice. |
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10-12-2017, 07:45 AM | #3 |
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Re: Random Spell List Generator
Inspiration Pad is great for picking a random Item from a list. I've built a great deal fewer random generators in java-script since doing so.
Bicorn is absolutely right: the most time consuming part would be formatting. Though If you're good at that, even that might not take long. The hardest part would be making the prereqs play nicely with each other I think. I suspect I could do it in a few hours. My blog output has slowed. Perhaps I should do this...
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10-12-2017, 07:17 PM | #4 |
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10-12-2017, 08:11 PM | #5 |
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Re: Random Spell List Generator
GCS has all the prereqs in xml format if I recall correctly.
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10-13-2017, 11:27 PM | #6 |
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Re: Random Spell List Generator
I wrote a DF random character generator that, if you pick Wizard, picks a legal (enforcing prerequisites) set of 30 random spells for you.
It's not exactly what you want, but you could probably modify it into exactly what you want pretty easily. https://github.com/dripton/dfrandom |
10-19-2017, 11:08 AM | #7 |
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Re: Random Spell List Generator
Ugg, that's messier than I thought it'd be. Prerequisites are hard. Though perhaps its just the route I'm taking.
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