GM Aid tool & Character Creation Tool

[erebus]

I was woundering, what would you like to see in a GM tool / application for Star Wars d6?
What features would you want / find usefull?
What os would you use it on?
Would you like one writen in python or java so it runs on any platform but requiers extra installs to run?

Im looking for any ides, thoughts and comments about this.

[vong]

i am starting to make one aswell - in VB tho, so it wont be cross platform, but i probably could write it in java so it is cross platform.

But what i was going to put in my first version was a basic combat helper. itll keep track of your characters current status and the enemy status aswell. it will have a roller and such aswell.

But i guess ideally you would want to be able to make characters, add equipment, update characters and such in it

i dont know if you play D&D but there is one there that is great.

http://www.dmgenie.com/

the player genie would be about what i would look for, i dont personally like some of the things added in the dmgenie (basically it has everything you need to play d&d) so the same would apply for this program - contain all the rules attached to the items that they would work with

but if you are thinking of starting a program, i can write in java with you, i dont know python, yet
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[cheshire]

I guess I should preface this by stating all of the programs and scripts that are already out there. I'd hate for you to duplicate someone else's work.

I've got a really good dice roller by Adrian Parker. (The only thing it lacks is a roll log or any ability to use it over chats for PBP.)

There are three very good random generators, an alien generator (using the Alien Encouter rules), a planet generator (which is actually only so-so), and a random NPC generator.

I've also got a star wars database for taking care of starship, character, and weapon stats. But I haven't found that to be very useful.

Probably the most interesting is a Java applet that converts d20 characters into D6 characters.

I guess if there's one thing that hasn't been done well it's a D6 character generator. Characters are really easy to make if you're well versed in the system, but new players have a difficult time starting out. What would be a great program is one that had a pull-down menu for you to select your alien species, and it automatically loads the number of attribute dice for you as well as calculates in the special rules for the various species. (For example some species have a rule, "During character creation, Abyssin receive 2D for every 1D placed in this skill specialization, and, until the skill reaches 6D, advancement is half the normal Character Point cost.") If the program could account for those anomalies, then it would be really incredible.

[Gry Sarth]

Well, considering I have stats for about 426 alien species, creating such a systems might be quite a big pain....
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[erebus]

I havent actually found any tool that contains the things Im looking for, I want a tool where you can create a char yourself, then update the stats as you play. Like a character database. Also with a dynamic species database, so you can add your own aliens, and the same with templates.

[vong]

thats what i was thinking about. big project, what do you do during the day atm, me, im a student in Computer Science and working part time. so i have a few hours each day to work on it
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[erebus]

What version of VB are you useing?

[vong]

6.0
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[erebus]

Have hade experience with it. Have you started your project yet and if so how far have you gotten?

[cheshire]

[erebus]

Yes cheshire I have seen it.
I thought about this a bit now, and thought maybe a app that connects to a server, you enter username and password to log in and your character is stored there. It prevents cheating if you run an online game, and it should be able to send things like dice rolls and so on. Basicly two apps, one client and one server specially developed for sw d6, with the client being able to stand alone as well, so you dont have to connect to a server and can create your character localy.

Other features I was thinking about:
Templates, easy to pick templates (from the books or your own creation) that allows you to select a race, diffrent from the one on the template allready, the app checks to see if the species you selected have the same attributes dice, mini and max stats and if so just uses it, if not allows you to edit the stats so you follow the rules for the new species.

Printing possibileties both to papper and to a HTML document, this would however be in the future when the basics are done, anyone know of a
good HTML d6 character sheet that can be used as a template for this?

Equipment, add, remove, modefiy the equipment of your character.

Advancements, keep track of your characters advancements as they get better by updating your character.

There are probably more features I havent thought of yet as well.

[vong]

im curious what your experience and ability of programming is. because i haven't done much web programming, however much i like the idea, i can see it as being quite daunting. altho i do have close to admin access (ima good friend of the admin with my on subdomain) of a web server whcih we can make use of.

and cheshire, it wound not be hard to get a full list of aliens at all. i have Gry's excelent alien stats book, and i can easily extrapolate that into database to hold all thoes aliens.

But it does sound as tho we have enough interest to do this, im willing to put time into making this program, and will commit myself to doing so, erebus, you up for making some program

It doe sound as tho java is the way to go for this project(not sure about making it an exe tho, never done that before) but we ca always make it an applet easily enough i would think.
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[erebus]

I have done some webprogramming in PHP.
As for this I have allready a project that I started, its in VB thou, its not very much done on it in yet, it doesnt even have basic character creation, but its actually on the way.

[vong]

VB would be a poor choice if you want to make it distributed (server client)
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[erebus]

why do you think so?
I have done simular things in VB before.