Recent content by ninjeff

Wouldn't dream of it. :) Your position makes a lot more sense to me now, but I still have one major problem: won't a schema compiler effectively remove the interoperability that we're going for? If every user compiles their own schemas based on the books they own or their houserules, then won't...

megasycophant: Welcome to the thread! As a fellow geek, I can't help appreciating that your idea is awesome and cool: a schema that can validate a character all in one step. Unfortunately, I see two major problems with it. First of all, it's infeasible. A schema like this would require...

I've attached the latest schema and example characters in this post. Funny, that's almost exactly how I modified it. :D Going by the name in the table, I used <item>Bracers of Defense (paragon tier)</item>. It seems like that's the standard notation in the books.

I agree that that's how it should be, but you can read the WotC Customer Service ruling in this thread: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=231261 It's first posted on page 1, and discussion continues throughout the thread, including somebody noticing the logical but absurd conclusion that...

Good point. I'll probably restructure the OP once the thread gets unwieldy, anyway. dragon_eater: I'm going through your wizard and making some changes to get him to match the latest schema. As a case study, I'll run through the changes in this post. First of all, I've added a <languages>...

I'm glad we could make your high score list. ;) If we get a bit more stuff going on in the thread, I might edit the OP or make a new thread with a bit more structure and some FAQs about what we're doing, so people can see the benefits and it's not just a nerdzone.

dragon_eater: I'm going ahead with your change to powers. It makes good sense. :) banana and I have been communicating on MSN, but I wanted to post some responses here too so that everyone knows where we're going: Correct, this format only contains the data that the player chooses. Yep! Thanks...

Looks good! Thanks for bashing that out, it's good to know that the "name plus choices" thing works well for all the races. I've put together another revision, this time with rituals, description and campaign information (all optional). If you choose to include campaign information, then player...

Good points on player, height, and weight, but gender's actually already in there. If you take a look at 4eCharacter.rnc in the .zip, you'll see a pretty human-readable version of the schema. 4eCharacter.xsd has all the same information, but is much nastier on the eyes. :) I'll add a "campaign"...

OK, here's an updated version with those changes, except for the class block thing which is still pending a decision.

I'm going through and making some changes, and it occurs to me that it's kind of ugly to have e.g.:<feats> <feat> <name>Channel Divinity: Armor of Bahamut</name> </feat> <feat> <name>Group Insight</name> </feat> </feats> How about, instead:<feats> <feat name="Channel Divinity...

Thanks for the suggestions. Looks good! And good catch on the race; to be honest, I made one character first and then modified it for the others. If more suggestions start coming in, I'll make an updated version of the schema. It would be good if we could have a community standard for this, as...

Oops, my bad! I totally thought I had a zip, not a rar.

Hi, I've been lurking for a while but decided to introduce myself with a contribution. :) I've been seeing a lot of electronic character sheets flying around, each with their own aesthetics. I'd like to try each of these out with my character, but I really don't want to type him into each one...