I think I need to read a bit more before I dive into a game.
On 31/10/2020 13:01, Klaatu wrote:
> I'm up for a one-shot game, for sure. I could make a 2 to 4 hour session on
> UTC Saturday anywhere from 16;00 and later [UTC].
>
> I've extracted the text, and converted all tables to bullet lists, from the
> System Reference Document (SRD) of the Player's Handbook. I discuss this with
> McNalu in episode http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3120
>
> The "drawback" (if you call it that) is that I've added some open game
> content
> to fill out missing character options, which causes my SRD to diverge from
> the
> official Player Handbook. For instance, the Player's Handbook offers Path of
> the
> Berserker and Path of the Totem Warrior for Barbarians, but they only release
> Path of the Berserker as part of the SRD. So my version offers Path of the
> Berserker and a third-party Path of the Shaman instead. Not really a big deal
> unless you're playing with someone adamantly opposed to third party content.
>
> Here's the Git repo to that document:
> https://notabug.org/notklaatu/5srdnd
>
> The document is 5e_SRD.md
>
> That may or may not be of use to you.
>
> -klaatu
>
> On Saturday, October 31, 2020 2:12:20 AM NZDT Mike Ray wrote:
>> Klaatu,
>>
>> This is all great stuff.
>>
>> I was not able to reply directly because I currently have some kind of
>> enigmail error on TBird, which stops me replying to anybody with a key.
>> Need to sort that out. So this is a new message with the subject
>> hopefully set right.
>>
>> I have created an account on dndbeyond, after sending them an email and
>> asking them if their materials are accessible.
>>
>> I have bought the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master's Handbook, and
>> I can not only confirm that both are indeed accessible, but that both
>> are beautifully formatted for me to access with a screen reader.
>>
>> For example, the Monster Manual is well indexed with all the monsters
>> falling under alphabetical order and I can go to, say, Goblins directly
>> and see their stats.
>>
>> So if I was making a campaign, I can easily copy and paste monster stats
>> into a serial order text document for me to follow on a laptop or my iPad.
>>
>> It's been great seeing monster names I have not heard or seen for over
>> forty years, like carrion crawlers and gelatinous cubes.
>>
>> The 5th editition rule book I found online and converted into text with
>> the help of the great Kurzweil 1000 OCR app on Windows. The rule book
>> was a PDF of scanned images making up each page, but OCR was not a
>> problem. It has not formatted tables correctly, but I can extract what I
>> need.
>>
>> I've also joined a very big community on Facebook dedicated to 5e D&D,
>> and the folks on there also seem to think being blind is no barrier.
>>
>> Certainly I had already kind of accepted the idea of players rolling my
>> dice for me, and don't think there is any impediment there.
>>
>> I look forward to another episode on this subject from you.
>>
>> Perhaps if this becomes something of a discussion, we can have a small
>> 'game-ette' on Zoom or, preferably, Jitsi, and make an episode from it.
>>
>> Anybody else who is up for that could also join in.
>>
>> I have not generated any characters yet, have to get on to that.
>>
>> Next problem is how to stop buying dice on Amazon, but that's another story.
>>
>> It's also very easy to write dice applications in Python and Javascript
>> of course.
>>
>> Mike
>
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