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Thread: Monster search engine
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2009-12-20, 09:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Monster search engine
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!
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2009-12-20, 09:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
http://www.penpaperpixel.org/tools/d20monsterfilter/ ...Just sayin'.
Edit: Though yours gives more information, which I do enjoy.Last edited by DarkSetzer; 2009-12-20 at 09:52 PM.
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2009-12-20, 10:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-12-20, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
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.Last edited by Holocron Coder; 2009-12-20 at 10:08 PM.
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2009-12-24, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Just stopping in to say this is awesome now that I've played with it a little. Very versatile.
So you never have to interrupt a game to look up a rule again:
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2009-12-24, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Really interesting, but I wonder.. Are you working on this one and improving it?
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2009-12-24, 07:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Haven't done anything since the initial post, but might get back to it soon.
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2009-12-24, 07:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
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.
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2009-12-24, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
It's cool that that one searches outside of core. But this one has many, many more options, which is what I liked.
Last edited by ericgrau; 2009-12-24 at 08:59 PM.
So you never have to interrupt a game to look up a rule again:
My 3.5e Rules Cheat Sheets: Normal, With Consolidated Skill System
TOGC's 3.5e Spell/etc Cards: rpgnow / drivethru rpg
Utilities: Magic Item Shop Generator (Req. MS Excel), Balanced Low Magic Item System
Printable Cardstock Dungeon Tiles and other terrain stuff (100 MB)
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2009-12-27, 02:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
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.
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2009-12-28, 01:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
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.Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2009-12-29, 01:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Updated
Alignment and non-epic dragons.Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2010-01-03, 03:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Updated, immunities, resistances, many bugfixes and a few ui tweeks.
Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2010-01-03, 09:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Very good, dspeyer. Would it possibile to sort the columns in the results?
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2010-01-03, 01:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Added sorting.
Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2010-01-03, 04:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Thank you. Guy, you really made a great work...
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2010-01-09, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Added epic dragons, and some bugfixes.
Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2010-01-10, 02:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Added a bunch of wizards.com monsters, variants, correct handling of elite-arrays and negative searching.
Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2010-05-16, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
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.Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2010-05-16, 10:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
Awesomeness. Great job ^_^
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2010-05-16, 10:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
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.Last edited by sofawall; 2010-05-16 at 10:35 PM.
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2010-05-16, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
I assume some creatures are more vulnerable from underneath. It's from realmshelp, so there's no explanation.
If you download the html and all the js files, it should work. All the searching is client-side.
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 hadn't thought about collaboration. How's your javascript and python?Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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2010-05-16, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Monster search engine
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.
I hadn't thought about collaboration. How's your javascript and python?
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2010-05-17, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Looking for a monster? Making a monster?
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