Working on SMF 'online character creator' - feedback welcome

[DS615]

That's amazing!
I'm so impressed I can't even express it! Well done!

[Elk101]

This looks very useful.

[Basement Dweller]

Just worked through a couple of models.  Looks great so far.

No wild card or street level characters yet?  Just confirming I am not missing them.

When making a blaster (archery) I couldn't find fortune nor super agility as minor powers in the menu.  I was trying to duplicate one I built in excel and couldn't select the same minor powers I had the first time...the error could be on my end however...

[fergal]

Just worked through a couple of models.  Looks great so far.

Thank you for starting to put it through the paces Basement Dweller!

No wild card or street level characters yet?  Just confirming I am not missing them.

Can you confirm you are using the newest version?  

https://repl.it/@RussellGregory/SMFCharacterCreatorv2


Wildcard AND street level should be there. The basic archetypes are in alphabetical order with the alternate power levels at the bottom and henchmen in last position.

When making a blaster (archery) I couldn't find fortune nor super agility as minor powers in the menu.  I was trying to duplicate one I built in excel and couldn't select the same minor powers I had the first time...the error could be on my end however...

I see super-agility (and it's available when I choose Archery as my Major Power) but I don't see fortune as an option in the rule-book?

This is what comes from the Blaster Archetype:
Minor Powers (choose two)
Damage Field, Explosion, Flight, Force-Field, Iron Will, Resistance, Reflection, Super-Strength

I've got this from Archery:
You get unlimited use of the Power Blast (minor) power, and then a selection of three other minor powers from the following list: Entangle, Leaping, Melee Specialist, Obscurement, Sonic Blast, Stun, Super-Agility.

Can you show me where you see it as an option?

[Basement Dweller]

I was on the wrong version...sorry...will try again on this one.

When I find my rulebook (may have to download again) I will confirm if you can get Fortune and if so, how...

[Basement Dweller]

So on Page 14, in the italicized text at the bottom, it says if you choose archery as you major you pick from an abbreviated minor power list:

Enhance, Fortune, Iron will, Savant, Super-Strength, or any of the three boosts (see page 97).

[fergal]

So on Page 14, in the italicized text at the bottom, it says if you choose archery as you major you pick from an abbreviated minor power list:

Enhance, Fortune, Iron will, Savant, Super-Strength, or any of the three boosts (see page 97).

Thank you, I hadn’t noticed that. I’ll make the changes in a few hours.

Try a few more while you wait!!

[fergal]

OK, so this poses an interesting question...Should I remain true to the rulebook and add a bunch of extra logic to the process to make it possible to get these separate versions of blaster OR do I just have a Blaster Archetype and an Archer Archetype, because that's what these functionally are?

Archetypes determine Major and minor powers.  So the Blaster archetype has you choose between two major powers, and then your minor power choices are decided by your Major Power choices. So in effect, two different Archetypes stuck in one.

[fergal]

OK, so I made this happen last night.  While the image below doesn't look very impressive (at all my wife tells me) it showed me that I can take the Character you create in my program and 'print' it out in a usable character sheet.  A few more hours of formatting practice before I am finished and it should be good to go.  I'm going to have to recreate the sheet without lines on it (to give it more flexibility) and smoosh everything up a bit so there is more room for notes, but I got pretty excited.

I only printed out the name, archetype and the first note to see if it worked.  It did!  The process of placing everything takes a bit of thought and trial and error to get it to look like it should, but it's very encouraging.

[Basement Dweller]

So I think you go with 2 different Archetypes:

Blaster (Power Blasts)
Blaster (Archery)

This way it clearly aligns with the rulebook (via the names) but also doesn't make you create a bunch of extra logic.

OK, so this poses an interesting question...Should I remain true to the rulebook and add a bunch of extra logic to the process to make it possible to get these separate versions of blaster OR do I just have a Blaster Archetype and an Archer Archetype, because that's what these functionally are?

Archetypes determine Major and minor powers.  So the Blaster archetype has you choose between two major powers, and then your minor power choices are decided by your Major Power choices. So in effect, two different Archetypes stuck in one.

[fergal]

Arghh, while thinking this through it would allow a Super Archetype to choose two blaster archetypes, unlikely to happen, but that type of stuff makes the program much less bulletproof. 

Looks like I'll have to figure out a way to pop the exception in there after you choose blaster...

[DS615]

Arghh, while thinking this through it would allow a Super Archetype to choose two blaster archetypes, unlikely to happen, but that type of stuff makes the program much less bulletproof. 

Looks like I'll have to figure out a way to pop the exception in there after you choose blaster...

While you certainly could do that, chose Blaster and Archer...I don't see any reason to actually do it.

You may want to build something in for it, but I think you could leave it for a while. just note it, and circle back to it.

[fergal]

You may want to build something in for it, but I think you could leave it for a while. just note it, and circle back to it.

Thanks for the suggestion, but besides trying to make a cool tool for us to use, I'm also trying to learn programming skills.  So the goal is to make a program that has EVERYTHING we need in it.  I'll get to it this weekend. 

[fergal]

Just squashed the first bug!  Let's get some feedback going folks and find some more. 

While adding the logic to accommodate a rules switcheroo that I didn't know about, I found a spelling mistake in a power name that resulted in it being left out the list of choices.  Post a few characters that you created in this thread, let's have a look!

[Basement Dweller]

Just built a Batwoman wildcard and didn't find any issues...nicely done...