Noumenon's page

The Section 15 copyright notices have been added to the rules for Dirty Trick, Drag, Reposition and Steal under the Combat Maneuvers section on d20pfsrd.

That seems like an unenjoyable task, so I'll give you +1 Internet karma for doing it.

Even if my DM doesn't like the APG, I might still get to use the new maneuvers: I hear people are house ruling to make Feint include Dirty Trick, Disarm include Steal, and Bull Rush include Drag and Reposition (because it's too many feats and maneuvers are too hard to do).

They are from the APG.

So is that supposed to be "core"? My group never played with anything beyond the PHB1, MM1, DMG1 in 3.5. Is any book that Paizo puts out going to be incorporated in d20pfsrd.com without noting the source, or is the APG special?

I thought d20pfsrd.com was pretty good about labeling 3rd party content, but I was surprised to not be able to look up the "drag" combat maneuver at the table because it wasn't in the Pathfinder PHB. What's up with that?

Link to Combat Maneuvers section

there's http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/spell-card-generator/spell-card-generator

for spells (which uses my DB BTW)

maybe you could convince Perram to do a magic item based card generator...

That spell card generator is awesome! Maybe Perram could launch a Kickstarter project to see if doing a magic item version would be worth his while.

You edited the page I was asking about to include this paragraph, right?

Note: You can not select the text in the window below because the FullText column is hidden. Export to your local computer then "unhide" the column to see the text. You can click on the format of your choice below to download all data to a local file.

If that was there yesterday, then I severely wasted everybody's time. But if not, that is great and all that really needed to be changed to make the directions user-friendly.

I won't speak for Mike who kindly created and maintains all of these databases but the export to various formats function (csv, pdf, txt, xls etc.) is a feature of Google Docs and Sites, which is possible due to the way we are hosting the data.

Oh, thanks, that explains why those formats are present and not an HTML version. I bet if you update the database then the export links update automatically, right? Whereas the HTML file I made would have to be maintained manually. That wouldn't be worth your time.

Thanks all for graciously dealing with my original problem and my unsolicited advice and criticism! I learned a lot about what d20pfsrd.com has to offer and who makes it work.

Let me preface my opinionated kvetching by acknowledging that I know next to nothing about the structure of your site or who these databases are provided for or how they're most easily used. I'm just giving my perspective as someone who said "Yay! All magic items in statblock form!" and then spent a couple hours trying to get that as a reality. I do appreciate that you guys actually created the databases and provided them to people to do what they wish. And that you're answering my questions.

If you want a text file with ALL the fulltext fields separated by a few < br >s for any given DB let me know, it's not that hard.

select fulltext + 'br tags' from dbo.spells

Your facility with SELECT statements is another good reason to have you creating the HTML files instead of end users. I added the BR tags myself using Ctrl+H on < div class="heading">, which I think took longer because I initially put them after the div tag so the blank line was full of maroon.

Uhh are you volunteering to do that for the thousands of feats, spells, monsters (etc) we have in the various DB's? lol

Which are you referring to? The index cards, or the html version? The index cards, no (though I wish someone already would have volunteered; I might actually pay to have a PDF of all magic items on index cards so I could just print one off when I wanted to use it). The HTML version, also no, but it seemed like chopswil had already volunteered to produce a .csv version, a pdf, an xls, and 5-step instructions for creating an HTML, so I was thinking he might as well have gone the last 10% and created the HTML himself. Or just not mention it in the first place since it's really not as handy as something you can edit.

Thanks a lot guys, that worked great. Sorry about wrong forum, it's easy to mistake the site for an official creation, it's such a professional-looking site with the Pathfinder logo plastered all over the place and copyrighted art and bestiary entries everywhere.

Now that I have the HTML file, I have to ask: if having the Magic Items DB in Paizo stat block format is such a good idea, why put up a bunch of instructions for uploading and exporting to html when you could just put up an HTML version? Just say "download this file and this file to the same directory, then open the second one." That would save everyone the time of downloading and adding < br >'s to make it look readable, and it's smaller than the .xls version already linked to.

My goal was to be able to paste the statblocks on index cards so I could hand out magic items to my players. I managed to learn how to preserve most of the CSS formatting in Word 2007, reformatted a little, they'll look something like this if I don't do anything stylish.

This page says "In the spreadsheet below, if you copy the text from the FullText column to a new text file on your computer, save it with a .html extension, and then also have this .css file (attached to bottom of this page also) in the same directory as that new file, you'll get spiffy stat blocks following the official Paizo format."

But there is no FullText column in that spreadsheet, either in Firefox or IE. I see all the other columns from A to AI. I tried just exporting to .csv and some of the other formats but none of them have a FullText column, and opening them as HTML files produces good looking statblocks, followed by all the text from the statblock duplicated in a small font with no formatting.

Same problem applies to the NPC statblocks here.