Homebrew Caster Creator

Some quick testing, and I think 50 WJP is too low. I attempted to make someone with the same stats as Kreoss1 and ended up a full 9 WJP down from Kreoss, and that's with 1 less spell and no focus stat accounted for.

I think we may want to give ourselves a bit more ground to play with and start with 100 WJP to spend, so that we can use some more granularity in our pricing of different abilities. I'm working on a suggested pricing list for stats, abilities, spells etc.

The UI looks good and works well too based off my random poking at it!

Really love the "DOVE" icon on the card.

It took more time and effort than I'd hoped, but the (almost) fully functional homebrew warcaster creator is now (almost) complete! I give you version 0.99!

It now reads in the config from a csv file or loads the embedded defaults (select a file then load or select load defaults). After selections are made in the various ability options etc the card can be displayed correctly, with appropriate options enabled or disabled. All that's missing now are the faction icons.

Here's the current config file:
original LibreOffice Calc format: configTest04.ods (14.84 KB)
microsoft format: configTest04.xlsm (7.08 KB)
final csv: configTest04.csv (3.07 KB)

elricaltovilla , you can now start creating your own config files and testing them in the tool. There's a few things to be aware of, but I suggest you take a look at the file first so that the next few points make a bit more sense.

First you can only load CSV files using the tab character as the field delimiter (this will be an option when exporting or saving files as CSVs from your excel or calc software).

The format is very important; you cannot change the position of columns. Of course you can add and delete rows, but don't have empty rows between records of the same data type (so now empty rows between one weapon and another).

Pay attention to the separating characters within different cells. These are not terribly consistent; for example, with weapon stats it's a space, with icons it's a comma, and with weapon abilities it's a semi-colon.

Each selection type requires the faction to be specified. This doesn't need to be done for each row, as subsequent rows will use the "current" faction. However sometimes you will need to specify the limit in the first record for each faction. Also, there is an "all", which means this option will be available for all factions.

Descriptions in abilities and weapon abilities are optional. In weapon abilities they should be written in brackets ().

If the option of having two of the same weapon is desired, set "Dual Wield" to "Yes". Then you will see a weapon icon with x2 next to the normal weapon icon in the selection box. If the weapon is selected you can switch back and forth between the single and dual icon. Using the dual icon will not change the cost (as I figured you are trading an entire weapon option for one extra attack), but it will take a weapon slot and you will not be able to select the x2 icon if you don't have a free slot left.

If you want to see the available icon names for use in abilities or weapons, go to the main menu in the card (by clicking on the disclaimer at the bottom) and select "copy icon html". When you click on an icon it will show a dialogue box with selected text that looks something like this: "<div style='width: 16px; height: 16px;' class='iconImageFireSparkles'></div>". You want the "iconImageX" part. I stripped out the "iconImage" part, so you just use something like "FireSparkles". If you want to embed the icon in a spell or feat description, use the entire "div" text that was in the dialogue box.

You can change weapon names and the final character name in the stats bar and they will automatically be changed elsewhere as needed. You can also write your own flavour text or hide the flavour text field in the main menu. Other than the character name and description, just about everything else in the card is locked (of course my old fully unlocked card creator is still available).

By the way, the faction card colours will need to be tweaked as I basically just put anything down and haven't actually tried them all.


OK, with that data dump out of the way, I would love it if people could test the warcaster creator and give me feedback.

Sorry, I am unable to test it or anything while I am TDY (3 months), but will definitely want to look at it when I finally get home.

Thanks, it's great to get some feedback. To be honest I haven't felt like putting anymore time into this lately; Real Life (TM) is a bit of a priority right now. Anyway, we'll see if Elricaltovilla gets back to us with a set of spells and stuff to populate the tool with for starters.