Entries tagged “D&D”

Parsing Your Character’s Loot

1 July 2009

Here’s a quick teaser for a new project I’m working on, almost ready for public beta. def loot(character_sheet_file) @xml ||= Hpricot::XML(character_sheet_file.read) @loot ||= @xml.search("//LootTally/loot[@count!='0']").map do |item| res = item.search("//RulesElement") case res.size when 0: nil when 1: coder.decode(res.first.attributes["name"]) [...]

Epic

31 May 2009

Last weekend, at [Gamex][], I spent a grueling three days grinding through [Living Forgotten Realms][lfr] modules in order to level up in time for the convention’s finale: SPEC1-2: Zhent’s Ancient Shadows. [Gamex]: “One of the three yearly Strategicon Conventions” [lfr]: