"John_R._Luce"@XEROX.COM (12/15/88)
After several years of talking about how great it would be to have software to help me be a better GameMaster, Several of my friends and I have decided to do something about it, when we're not writing code for our employer. What I am looking for is machine readable files, preferably in ASCII text with data from the various AD&D sources. Ie. tables of monsters and related statistics, tables of Thief success/fail percentages, etc. In short any and all information that one would normally have to look up in one of the various books. I figure that out of all the people out there, and all the time that the game has been out, someone MUST have entered the data into a computer, The format of the data is not important, in that we could translate the format for our own uses. We will be writing this software under SCO Xenix, so please don't suggest the various MS-DOS software packages that are GM Aids, unless they contain information in the form of data files as mentioned above. Thanks in advance to any pointers you can give me. John R. Luce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |USMail: Xerox Corp. 800 Phillips Rd. W129/38B Webster, NY 14580 | |GV/PUP: Luce.Wbst | |NS : John R. Luce:Wbst129:Xerox | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |ARPA : Luce.wbst@Xerox.COM | |BITNET: Luce.wbst@Xerox.COM | |CSNET : Luce.wbst%Xerox.COM@CSNET-RELAY.CSNET | |UUCP: ...!{amd|hplabs|ihnp4|rochester}!Xerox.COM!Luce.wbst | | ...!{amd|hplabs|ihnp4|rochester}!arisia.Xerox.COM!Luce.wbst | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
jamesd@lakesys.UUCP (James Dicke) (12/19/88)
In article <881214-094231-9680@Xerox> luce.wbst@Xerox.COM writes: > >After several years of talking about how great it would be to have software >to help me be a better GameMaster, Several of my friends and I have decided >to do something about it, when we're not writing code for our employer. > >What I am looking for is machine readable files, preferably in ASCII text >with data from the various AD&D sources. Ie. tables of monsters and related >statistics, tables of Thief success/fail percentages, etc. > John R. Luce WHat you are about to do is VERY illigal. You WILL be sued by TSR. I ought to know they tried to sue me too! Just a warning... They could care less about their customers! __________________________________________________________________________ | king@abyss.UUCP | {backbone,uunet}!marque!lakesys!abyss!king | %|-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------| %| "God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent- it says so right here on | %| the label." God is a trademark of AT&T Bell Labs. ** Space for rent ** | %|__________________________________________________________________________| %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (12/24/88)
In article <881214-094231-9680@Xerox>, "John_R._Luce"@XEROX.COM writes:
=
= After several years of talking about how great it would be to have software
= to help me be a better GameMaster, Several of my friends and I have decided
= to do something about it, when we're not writing code for our employer.
=
= What I am looking for is machine readable files, preferably in ASCII text
= with data from the various AD&D sources. Ie. tables of monsters and related
= statistics, tables of Thief success/fail percentages, etc. In short any and
= all information that one would normally have to look up in one of the various
= books. I figure that out of all the people out there, and all the time
= that the game has been out, someone MUST have entered the data into a computer,
= The format of the data is not important, in that we could translate the format
= for our own uses.
=
= We will be writing this software under SCO Xenix, so please don't suggest the
= various MS-DOS software packages that are GM Aids, unless they contain information
= in the form of data files as mentioned above.
=
What you might look into is a scanner. Many of the scanners on the
market are capable of reading text and doing a good job of converting it
into ascii (or other format) files. If there are enough of you doing
this you could all chip in and purchase one for a small amount of money
apiece.
Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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life used to be so simple.peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (12/29/88)
I hope you realise that copying the tables from D&D is a copyright violation. It's just the same as pirating software. Besides, D&D is so full of crocks you'd do better making your own tables and game system up from first principles. I'd recommend the system Steve Jackson came up with for his first FRP game, The Fantasy Trip, as a source of ideas. It's the cleanest and simplest system I've ever seen. Unfortunately it's now out of print, due to a dispute with Metagaming. Maybe you can pick up a copy in a used book store or something. I'd post the specifics, but that'd be a violation of copyright. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' Hackercorp. ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net 'U`