pathfinderSpellCardGen

Pathfinder Spell Card Generator

This tool was first intended to crawl the pathfinder SRD for certain spells and turn them into simple HTML spell-cards. These cards should then be printed in A5 format to serve as quick reference during play.

It was later refined to use the spell DB, which was more reliable and now works 100% offline.

How to use

• Use the commands list fields and list options <fieldname> to craft a filter. For details see the Filter section.
• Run the command export <filter>.
• You should now have an output directory. It contains one .htmlfile with ALL your spells and one .html file for each spell.
• Let's assume you want to print these "cards":
  • Open your browser.
  • Type in the address bar: file:\\ followed by the file path to your allSpells.html file
    • If you don't know how to get the file path of the file, search for that online...
  • Adjust the format and margins as you need. Authors preference: A5, landscape, 2 cm margin on the left (for punching holes).
  • Each spell will have a page-break after it.

Filter

The filter is an expr-lang. The expression must evaluate to true or false.

Commands

list

To see which fields are available, use ./pathfinderSpellCardGen list fields. To see a list of options for fields (e.g., which sources exist) use ./pathfinderSpellCardGen list options <fieldname>

export

Example filter to get all spell cards for a level 6 paladin using a subset of sources:
./pathfinderSpellCardGen export 'Name == "Detect Evil" || (PaladinLevel == "1" && (Source contains "Ultimate" || Source in ["PFRPG Core", "APG", "Advanced Class Guide"]))'
I had to add "Detect Evil" explicitly, since it is normally not on the spell list, but paladins get the ability to cast it as a class feature.

filter

If you want to see which spells match a filter, you can use the filter command, which prints a list of spell names, which matched the given filter.
./pathfinderSpellCardGen filter 'SorcererLevel == "0"'
This filter would give you all sourcerer cantrips, regardless of source.

print

To further refine what you want to see, you can use the print command.
This command outputs a subset of fields which you define.
./pathfinderSpellCardGen print 'Name' 'SorcererLevel == "0"'
This command is similar to filter, but the format is a bit different. Name is a bit redundant, but the print command needs at least one field. If you want to print everything, you can supply the special value 'ALL':
./pathfinderSpellCardGen print 'ALL' 'SorcererLevel == "0"'

Planned improvements

• More advanced parsing to assign data types correctly:
  • Some columns have "0" and "1" to indicate boolean values. These should become actual booleans (e.g. CostlyComponents).
  • Some columns are numeric only, but use "NULL" as a null indicator. These should also be parsed into a number type (e.g. PaladinLevel).
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