Monster search engine

[dspeyer]

I got tired of manually searching through SRD for suitable creatures and wrote a search engine for it. It still has a few issues, but it's usable, so I thought I'd share it here. You can search by any stat included in the srd.

Feedback is welcome.

Enjoy!

[DarkSetzer]

http://www.penpaperpixel.org/tools/d20monsterfilter/ ...Just sayin'.

Edit: Though yours gives more information, which I do enjoy.

[dspeyer]

http://www.penpaperpixel.org/tools/d20monsterfilter/ ...Just sayin'.

I am well aware, but I eventually got very tired of clicking on each link to check for a level adjustment.

[Holocron Coder]

As a note, your link for Hecatoncheires is broken.

Your link is
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/a...hecatoncheires

And should be
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/monst...hecatoncheires

I imagine a similar problem with other epic monsters.

[ericgrau]

Just stopping in to say this is awesome now that I've played with it a little. Very versatile.

[Sliver]

Really interesting, but I wonder.. Are you working on this one and improving it?

[dspeyer]

Haven't done anything since the initial post, but might get back to it soon.

[sonofzeal]

I should mention that this search engine is the one I currently use. The only thing I dislike is that I can't filter by HD, a useful thing to be able to do if you're Wildshaping or Polymorphing.

[ericgrau]

It's cool that that one searches outside of core. But this one has many, many more options, which is what I liked.

[dspeyer]

Updated.

Epic and psionic links are fixed. Monsters that have multiple variants are now supported (except dragons). A bunch of skill edge-cases are fixed, and special qualities are handled more usefully. More to come.

[dspeyer]

Updated.

Lots of parse-bugs fixed (the SRD is surprisingly badly proofread). More sense is made of environments, CRs, skills, speeds and attacks. Also, the UI no longer completely sucks.

[dspeyer]

Updated

Alignment and non-epic dragons.

[dspeyer]

Updated, immunities, resistances, many bugfixes and a few ui tweeks.

[Cicciograna]

Very good, dspeyer. Would it possibile to sort the columns in the results?

[dspeyer]

Added sorting.

[Cicciograna]

Thank you. Guy, you really made a great work...

[dspeyer]

Added epic dragons, and some bugfixes.

[dspeyer]

Added a bunch of wizards.com monsters, variants, correct handling of elite-arrays and negative searching.

[dspeyer]

Added the realmshelp data. It isn't 100% cleaned up, but it's usable. This is a huge increase in the number of known monsters.

Also added a few common templates.

[Talon Sky]

Awesomeness. Great job ^_^

[sofawall]

This is, frankly, awesome.

EDIT: What is Armor Class:Underbelly?

EDIT2: Is there any way to run this offline? If not, can you make it so? I so freakin' want this.

EDIT3: The source entries for a lot of animals (and I assume other types as well) are, well, not optimal. Races of Faerun doesn't appear properly, many SRD creatures have undefined sources, Monster Manual is referred to in at least 2 different ways, some sources are capitalized, some not, Dragon Mags don't have a number, etc. I'm being picky, but that's because I'm trying to help.

I wish I could help with the actual fixing of all these issues (Can I?), but al in all an excellent piece of work.

[dspeyer]

This is, frankly, awesome.

EDIT: What is Armor Class:Underbelly?

I assume some creatures are more vulnerable from underneath. It's from realmshelp, so there's no explanation.

EDIT2: Is there any way to run this offline? If not, can you make it so? I so freakin' want this.

If you download the html and all the js files, it should work. All the searching is client-side.

EDIT3: The source entries for a lot of animals (and I assume other types as well) are, well, not optimal. Races of Faerun doesn't appear properly, many SRD creatures have undefined sources, Monster Manual is referred to in at least 2 different ways, some sources are capitalized, some not, Dragon Mags don't have a number, etc. I'm being picky, but that's because I'm trying to help.

Faerun looks like a non-ascii bug. Those are annoying.

What from SRD isn't sourced? I thought I had that working.

Dragon mags are deliberate. It made searching by source painful. And you can still get the number by following the link.

I wish I could help with the actual fixing of all these issues (Can I?), but al in all an excellent piece of work.

I hadn't thought about collaboration. How's your javascript and python?

[sofawall]

What from SRD isn't sourced? I thought I had that working.

For example, Sharks and Snakes. Actually... Anything with more than one monster per page (Dire Rat and Dog, as well and Snakes and Sharks, for example) seem to be not working.

Dragon mags are deliberate. It made searching by source painful. And you can still get the number by following the link.

That makes sense.

I hadn't thought about collaboration. How's your javascript and python?

Mediocre and nonexistent.

[dspeyer]

For example, Sharks and Snakes. Actually... Anything with more than one monster per page (Dire Rat and Dog, as well and Snakes and Sharks, for example) seem to be not working.

Indeed.

Fixed.

I think.