Steve Jackson Games - Site Navigation
Home General Info Follow Us Search Illuminator Store Forums What's New Other Games Ogre GURPS Munchkin Our Games: Home

Go Back   Steve Jackson Games Forums > Roleplaying > GURPS

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 10-12-2017, 01:00 AM   #1
evileeyore
Banned
 
evileeyore's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: 100 hurricane swamp
Default 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?
evileeyore is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2017, 04:25 AM   #2
Bicorn
 
Bicorn's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Default Re: Random Spell List Generator

Quote:
Originally Posted by evileeyore View Post
If not.... what would be needed to build something like this?
Time and a basic knowledge of whatever programming language you'll be using for it. Random generators aren't hard to program.
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.
Bicorn is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2017, 07:45 AM   #3
ericthered
Hero of Democracy
 
ericthered's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
Default 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...
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic

Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog

Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one!
ericthered is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2017, 07:17 PM   #4
evileeyore
Banned
 
evileeyore's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: 100 hurricane swamp
Default Re: Random Spell List Generator

Quote:
Originally Posted by ericthered View Post
I suspect I could do it in a few hours. My blog output has slowed. Perhaps I should do this...
If you show me what you mean by "properly formatted", I could probably bang that out.

I'm kinds loathe to try to learn java just to scratch an itch.
evileeyore is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-12-2017, 08:11 PM   #5
Culture20
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Default Re: Random Spell List Generator

GCS has all the prereqs in xml format if I recall correctly.
Culture20 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-13-2017, 11:27 PM   #6
dripton
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Northern Virginia, USA
Default 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
dripton is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-19-2017, 11:08 AM   #7
ericthered
Hero of Democracy
 
ericthered's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: far from the ocean
Default 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.
__________________
Be helpful, not pedantic

Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog

Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one!
ericthered is online now   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Fnords are Off
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 09:18 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.