So basically, I am translating D&Ds system into BYOND. I have all of the actual systems done, stats, enemies, items, character customization, combat and so on are all finished.
But I have not actually added anything to this game yet. There is only test items, monsters, feats, magic spells and so on. So I am right now in the process of adding all this stuff.
... THERE IS WAY TO MUCH STUFF. WAY TO MUCH. I'll probably still be adding stuff in 10 years time!
A quick search shows...
3304 Feats http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/lists/feats
175 classes http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/lists/class
X many spells http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/lists/spells (It doesn't say, but I am guessing over 1000)
There is no list of monsters or items, but I am guessing both of these easily reach into the thousands too.
WHY THE HELL DOES D&D HAVE SO MUCH... STUFF???
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 Dec 15 2008, 12:33 pm
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Dec 15 2008, 1:01 pm
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Abel Nightroad
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Because it is God. And if you do this on BYOND I swear, I'll worship you.
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Abel Nightroad wrote:
Because it is God. And if you do this on BYOND I swear, I'll worship you. Adding the stuff is actually not that hard to do, just TIME CONSUMING. I have already added all of the classes, skills and feats from the 3.5 Players manual (except those that are redundant or would not work in video game format). I have also half added all of the spells. They can be learnt just fine, but they have no actual use or effects yet. Give me a week and I could easily get everything the players manual has coded. But :[ That is basically a very small percentage of everything, (I have no intention of adding everything anyway, but an amount of content comparable of other D&D based video games is my goal). | |
WHY THE HELL DOES D&D HAVE SO MUCH... STUFF??? Because some people have nothing to do but sit around adding new stuff to a board game. | |
I recommend just doing the SRD stuff. That should be more than enough to keep people occupied. If you want more after that, the majority of the good stuff in D&D is all contained in the Complete books and the Spell Compendium.
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Did you make sure that those are from the 4.0 Edition? Just kidding.
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Are these from ALL of the rulebooks, and not just the core 3? >_>;
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D4RK3 54B3R wrote:
Are these from ALL of the rulebooks, and not just the core 3? >_>; All of them. It basically translates into a raw 16GB of books. I'm definately not adding them all though. I am starting with just the core rule books, after that I will only add what I think is worth adding. But even then, I am altering, changing and removing things that are just plain redundant (D&D has tons and tons of useless stuff). But still, even the stuff from the core rulebooks will take a fairly long time to add. (It's not like any of it is hard to code or anything, there is just so much of it that typing it all up takes an annoyingly long time) | |
There are 1610 spells listed there - copied just the tr /tr pairs in the spell table into a text editor using Firebug and then divided the number of lines by 2.
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