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<blockquote data-quote="Luke" data-source="post: 26510" data-attributes="member: 602">Basically, it's from Bruce Gulke's &quot;TableSmith&quot; program. I had a look at his grammar/language, and wrote my own parser for a subset of it. The huge number of generators in RPM are actually freeware TableSmith generator files compatible with the subset of Bruce's homegrown language.It's unclear whether I'll go for full TableSmith compatibility in the future, or integrate it as is with RPM's scripting language. Bruce is planning some changes, and will keep me up to date on them.I'm pretty excited about the possibilities too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I'd like to integrate it with RPM's tables (feats, items, skills, equipment, classes etc), to provide a nice visual way of selecting the random weightings for various tables. It would only take about 10 minutes for me to integrate my parser/generator to the RPM scripting engine, so that you could make simple calls for x rolls of any named generator.If you look at the sources, you'll notice that HTML text is often generated. By the same token, a generator could just as easily generate XML. Now, if you generate XML compatible with RPM's future XML import capability... you could generate entire adventures, and import them directly (not that I agree with that sort of thing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).- You could have area-specific generators for wandering monsters, or particular campaigns.- Use it to generate scroll lists, spell books, NPC histories, encounters of a particular El... the list goes on and on.I think that the generators open the best doors possible for awesome potential in RPM, but first things are first...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Luke, post: 26510, member: 602"] Basically, it's from Bruce Gulke's "TableSmith" program. I had a look at his grammar/language, and wrote my own parser for a subset of it. The huge number of generators in RPM are actually freeware TableSmith generator files compatible with the subset of Bruce's homegrown language. It's unclear whether I'll go for full TableSmith compatibility in the future, or integrate it as is with RPM's scripting language. Bruce is planning some changes, and will keep me up to date on them. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities too! :D I'd like to integrate it with RPM's tables (feats, items, skills, equipment, classes etc), to provide a nice visual way of selecting the random weightings for various tables. It would only take about 10 minutes for me to integrate my parser/generator to the RPM scripting engine, so that you could make simple calls for x rolls of any named generator. If you look at the sources, you'll notice that HTML text is often generated. By the same token, a generator could just as easily generate XML. Now, if you generate XML compatible with RPM's future XML import capability... you could generate entire adventures, and import them directly (not that I agree with that sort of thing ;) ). - You could have area-specific generators for wandering monsters, or particular campaigns. - Use it to generate scroll lists, spell books, NPC histories, encounters of a particular El... the list goes on and on. I think that the generators open the best doors possible for awesome potential in RPM, but first things are first... [/QUOTE]

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