dnd tools

Analysis of dnd-tools

• Character creation seems like a place where OO techniques would be best suited
• The interactive portions would be great to adapt to npyscreen
• enum would be great for the strictly defined sets of characteristics, like race and class
• Output of tabulet data - tabulate

expand accepts dictionary objects that use range objects as keys and return an "expanded" dictionary object that includes every individual value within that range.

start_fn is the main entry point of the utility and depends on user to input an option that corresponds to one of 8 options

• Character creation, which calls the following functions in order:
  • race_fn
  • class_fn
  • height_fn
  • weight_fn
  • age_fn
  • gender_fn
  • abilities_fn
  • race_bonus_fn
  • saves_fn
  • hp_fn
  • alignment_fn
  • summary_fn
  • name_fn
  • save_fn

race_fn

race_fn declares the char_race variable as a global, and it is defined by user input.

• If the value corresponds exactly to one provided in [race_short], it is left unchanged.
• If the input indicates random choice, a random element is selected using random.choice and assigned to char_race
• Otherwise, the function calls itself again!

class_fn

class_fn presents contents of class_npc or char_class, based on whether or not User is defining an NPC or the character