Wanna try/test my new 3.5e web-based NPC generator?

[Clint]

Hi. This is a call for friendly people to test and give feedback to my beta-version web-based 3.5e NPC generator.

I don't know about y'all, but I loved Jamis Buck's NPCGen. I got a ton of utility out of it, and I wanted to give something back, so I wrote a 3.5e update, currently called NPyC. (I was thinking of calling it NPCGen35, but I respect Jamis's work and don't want to cause a namespace clash.)

It's got some features: random and selected classes, levels, and races; a few choices for attribute settings; complete multi-classing; and class-styles, which are like rough goals for a particular class (for example, a fighter who prefers specializing in one weapon, or another who is a mounted warrior). Only fighter and rogue have more than one class style right now, but new ones are trivial to add. I'm aware that the interface isn't perfect, but I'm listening to feedback.

It doesn't have prestige classes, although if people really want them, I might do them. It will likely never have spells or equipment.

I'll leave the server up for a day or two, then I'll take it down while I act on the feedback.

Please, please don't repost this link anywhere else. This is my personal connection/computer hosting this, so I have extremely limited bandwidth and processing power. My plan is to find some generous d20 resource to host it when it's done, which should be soon.

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edit:

Took the link down.

-Clint

 

[gariig]

I would personally like equipment, if only weapons and armor. You could template it the same way you are now, I'd just like to see AC and damage for weapons. Also, my Conjurerer got an extra .5 for being human to her Concentration skill so that seems like a bug.

Gariig

 

[Psionicist]

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[Clint]

Thanks to you both for the feedback.

I would personally like equipment, if only weapons and armor. You could template it the same way you are now, I'd just like to see AC and damage for weapons. Also, my Conjurerer got an extra .5 for being human to her Concentration skill so that seems like a bug.

Well, like I said, equipment isn't likely, mainly because it's a pain to code, but also because it's the most likely generated information to be changed by the user, and pretty easy to compute manually. I'll leave that to an NPC equipment generator.

The Concentration bug is fixed, thanks. Your wizard should have received a whole rank for being human.

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Thanks! Actually, I wanted the colon, but forgot the semicolon as part of the space. It's fixed.

-Clint

 

[kingpaul]

Quick comment on http://24.62.34.177:8080/ogl.html : Where is your part of S15? You've derived from the SRD, so should have a statement there.

 

[Clint]

Where is your part of S15? You've derived from the SRD, so should have a statement there.

Thanks, kingpaul.

Even though I've read quite a bit on S15, I didn't realize that I had to include my own line even when not including new source material. But I trust that you're giving me sound advice, so I've included a line under S15:

<i>NPyC, Copyright 2003, Clint Howarth; Author Clint Howarth.</i>

Is this sufficient? Do I need to make a statement of (lack of) Product Identity?

Thanks,

-Clint

 

[kingpaul]

Is this sufficient? Do I need to make a statement of (lack of) Product Identity?

From my understanding, if you don't have a declaration of OGC or PI, everything is assumed to be PI. Is there anything in your program that is PI? If so, you need to declare it. If you're using other people's PI, you need permission; this needs marked as PI, and you should state that you have permission to use this PI.

 

[Clint]

From my understanding, if you don't have a declaration of OGC or PI, everything is assumed to be PI. Is there anything in your program that is PI? If so, you need to declare it. If you're using other people's PI, you need permission; this needs marked as PI, and you should state that you have permission to use this PI.

Thanks again. I thought that OGC/PI worked in reverse. I added a statement that should be clear. I wrote this with the intention that anyone (DMs, publishers) would use it freely.

So, any thoughts on the generator part?

-Clint