US making a character generator?

[Lance]

If you can make a pretty front-end, someone could fill in the php stuff

[Leitz]

If you can make a pretty front-end, someone could fill in the php stuff

Concur. GreyWolfVT may be talked into doing the page for us. If you have thoughts, now is a good time to share them.

[GreyWolfVT]

Mind you I am not "expert" at HTML there is a reason why I do tech support and not web design. I took a course or two in college (2010-2012) and have not had many places that required me to use it. But I will give it a shot/try.

[Lance]

I'm wondering, in all these years of playing AD&D and making all kinds of generators, did noone publish the necessary information in a json or xml or something? And if nobody did, do you want to?

[Leitz]

I'm wondering, in all these years of playing AD&D and making all kinds of generators, did noone publish the necessary information in a json or xml or something? And if nobody did, do you want to?

I don't know what the legal issues would be, as I have not studied the OGL and the status of 1e. My assumption, which is always a risky thing, is that the OSR movement is based on 1e material now being under the OGL or similar.

Anyone know what the status of 1e? Specifically, a decently legal document that we can point to giving us the okay to use the basic data publicly.

[Lance]

It wouldn't contain anything that OSRIC doesn't, just saves per level according to class, minimum attributes by race and class etc. Just a bunch of numbers. We can include the OGL or a link to it if it's unavoidable.

[Leitz]

I'm happy with using a 1e compatible product, but you're right. We do need something that we can directly link to the OGL. If we can't specifically use official 1e, then getting permission from whatever OGL based clone we base off of would be useful.

[GreyWolfVT]

Well and a whole other series of questions as well. For me to work on the HTML side of it I'd need a "sandbox" essentially that I can save images and all that in otherwise I'd just be saving all the work on my laptop or in my google drive. (Granted there probably are other online resources I could find, to use.)

[Leitz]

Well and a whole other series of questions as well. For me to work on the HTML side of it I'd need a "sandbox" essentially that I can save images and all that in otherwise I'd just be saving all the work on my laptop or in my google drive. (Granted there probably are other online resources I could find, to use.)

We have a GitHub repo, if you can use that.

[ToniXX]

I'm happy with using a 1e compatible product, but you're right. We do need something that we can directly link to the OGL. If we can't specifically use official 1e, then getting permission from whatever OGL based clone we base off of would be useful.

I think if we say we're basing it off OSRIC, and we include the required license and disclaimers on the terms of use page (which I should already have in place... but I don't) we should be covered legally.

[GreyWolfVT]

I'll have to check on GitHub Leitz. I've heard of it but never actually used it (as I'm not a software coder "guy")

[Leitz]

I'll have to check on GitHub Leitz. I've heard of it but never actually used it (as I'm not a software coder "guy")

No worries. If you can make the initial page(s) on your local machine then one of us can upload to GitHub. Though if you can do the uploads, it'd help. Most of the github tasks are pretty easy, once you try them a couple of times.

https://github.com/TheUnseenServant/uss_chargen

[GreyWolfVT]

I'll have to check on GitHub Leitz. I've heard of it but never actually used it (as I'm not a software coder "guy")

No worries. If you can make the initial page(s) on your local machine then one of us can upload to GitHub. Though if you can do the uploads, it'd help. Most of the github tasks are pretty easy, once you try them a couple of times.

https://github.com/TheUnseenServant/uss_chargen

Right on. I'll check it out when I get home from work.

[Leitz]

It takes a village

Updated the code while taking a break from packing. Storms coming in, so I have to cut this short. I moved the character (code-)class into its own file, and then added a start on names, races, and genders. There's a new file called "village.php", which you can run to get a village full of people.


php village.php

Code: Select all

Joe, Human Male Barkeep 
Strength:  11   Intelligence:  13   Wisdom:  11   Dexterity:  11   Constitution:  8   Charisma:  12   

Rangora, Dwarf Female Farrier 
Strength:  10   Intelligence:  8   Wisdom:  13   Dexterity:  10   Constitution:  10   Charisma:  13   

JoeBob, Human Male Stablehand 
Strength:  10   Intelligence:  10   Wisdom:  7   Dexterity:  10   Constitution:  9   Charisma:  5   

Rangora, Dwarf Female Mayor 
Strength:  14   Intelligence:  9   Wisdom:  11   Dexterity:  12   Constitution:  7   Charisma:  13   

Bob, Human Male Priest 
Strength:  15   Intelligence:  14   Wisdom:  15   Dexterity:  10   Constitution:  5   Charisma:  8   

Ringora, Dwarf Female Boarding house owner 
Strength:  18   Intelligence:  11   Wisdom:  9   Dexterity:  6   Constitution:  10   Charisma:  10   

Rongora, Dwarf Female Town drunk 
Strength:  10   Intelligence:  6   Wisdom:  9   Dexterity:  5   Constitution:  7   Charisma:  16 

This is my Hobbit style birthday present to you all. Enjoy! I'll be off-line for a week or so.

[dmw71]

I think it'd be hilarious to enter a new town and half the town is named "Bob," or "Rongora."

"Which one?"

[rredmond]

It's like calling out "Ronnie!" at a Redmond family Christmas party. No joke!

[dmw71]

It's like calling out "Ronnie!" at a Redmond family Christmas party. No joke!

[GreyWolfVT]

silly question for ToniXX (Greg) where did you get the image that is in the background of the new roller? Working on the html & css side of the char gen I'm wondering where to locate similar images.

[ToniXX]

silly question for ToniXX (Greg) where did you get the image that is in the background of the new roller? Working on the html & css side of the char gen I'm wondering where to locate similar images.

I don't remember... you can just right click and save the image in question.

[GreyWolfVT]

I tried that and it's not an option on the roller. But I think I found something we can use (I hope).

What I mean by it does not work. Is the only thing that comes up for save as on the roller is the html file which is not what I'm shooting for there. Probably the advanced way it is coded vs my extent of web design coding with HTML and CSS. Minus java and all the fancy stuff