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<blockquote data-quote="BlivetWidget" data-source="post: 7631439" data-attributes="member: 6912801"><p>As soon as I started thinking of algorithmic solutions to the massive quantity of spells, I should have known you had me hooked (I can't resist a fun coding project). For anyone considering a similar project, I ended up just using the Python keyboard module. Everything else produced sub-par results. But by taking control of the keyboard, I can open up powerpoint directly and just duplicate slides and edit text boxes at ridiculous speeds. You just have to lay out your slide so the text boxes are in the right order (okay, you don't <em>have </em>to, but it saves you a lot of effort).</p><p></p><p>So here is what I'm picturing for each handout. There are three levels of difficulty.</p><p>Easy: use it as is, so you can read the spell name.</p><p>Medium: cut off the spell name, and use the Chart of Elemental Cyclicity to translate the first line (which is just the spell name transliterated into script) back into English.</p><p>Hard: don't hand out the Chart of Elemental Cyclicity, and just give charts explaining the hexagram. Now to figure out the spell, you have to look at the hexagram and back the spell out from its properties like level, school, range, casting time, etc.</p><p></p><p>Example below. I figure maybe there should also be versions with no background? Having never done anything DMs Guild related, I'll have to figure that system out myself. What sort of price would you feel is appropriate? Something in the dollar zone? Though this is the end result of uncountable hours of work developing and refining the system, it wasn't done with any commercial aims in mind.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]107458[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BlivetWidget, post: 7631439, member: 6912801"] As soon as I started thinking of algorithmic solutions to the massive quantity of spells, I should have known you had me hooked (I can't resist a fun coding project). For anyone considering a similar project, I ended up just using the Python keyboard module. Everything else produced sub-par results. But by taking control of the keyboard, I can open up powerpoint directly and just duplicate slides and edit text boxes at ridiculous speeds. You just have to lay out your slide so the text boxes are in the right order (okay, you don't [I]have [/I]to, but it saves you a lot of effort). So here is what I'm picturing for each handout. There are three levels of difficulty. Easy: use it as is, so you can read the spell name. Medium: cut off the spell name, and use the Chart of Elemental Cyclicity to translate the first line (which is just the spell name transliterated into script) back into English. Hard: don't hand out the Chart of Elemental Cyclicity, and just give charts explaining the hexagram. Now to figure out the spell, you have to look at the hexagram and back the spell out from its properties like level, school, range, casting time, etc. Example below. I figure maybe there should also be versions with no background? Having never done anything DMs Guild related, I'll have to figure that system out myself. What sort of price would you feel is appropriate? Something in the dollar zone? Though this is the end result of uncountable hours of work developing and refining the system, it wasn't done with any commercial aims in mind. [ATTACH=CONFIG]107458._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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