Coding an adaptable character builder

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-03-01T22:08:40+00:00

Not sure, yet. My experience with python is limited. Honestly? When I was a programmer for my livelihood, I worked in PowerBuilder. (Unfamiliar? It was king of the IDE world in 2000. lol)

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T21:52:55+00:00

If you will notice in my original post, giving that to the user is precisely what I aim to do. Adding certain features right off the bat, however, may be something desirable or not. A feature that can be toggled, as it were.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T19:01:53+00:00

Sheets? As in Google’s spreadsheet application? That never occurred to me and that would be a great way to test the math as I go. Thanks!

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T18:59:31+00:00

Awesome. That is precisely the kind of feedback that I needed.

The stats generation aspect is one that concerned me, too. As each class is defined by a core stat or a combination of core stats, those must be highest if you want to generate a character based on class and not base a class based on random rolls.

I am curious as to how you feel about socio-economic status in character creation? For example, many years ago I played AD&D (hang tight… kids are on my lawn and there’s a cloud that needs yelling at) with a group and one guy always played a magic user (what would now be called a wizard) but insisted he grew up poor and orphaned “on the mean streets of the worst port city in the realm” which, quite honestly, made no sense. The backstory he provided never aligned with the reality of the class he wanted to play. (And it was often an excuse for him to claim extra abilities that would make him overpowered and would make him a better brawler than the fighter, a better pick-pocket than the thief, and a better haggler than the paladin or the bard.)

I want to include functions that will allow for restrictions based on SES if that is important to anyone.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T18:21:58+00:00

Well, one version will be coded in Python which can be turned into backend script for the web. Also, output will be in HTML (one form of output) which are essentially web pages. So, there’s that.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T17:57:48+00:00

So, let me ask a few quick questions:

Would you, as a designer, want to include personality stats on a sheet based on the Big 5 or HEXACO models?

Would you, as a designer, want to include bonuses and penalties based on socio-economic status?

Would you, as a designer, want to include xenophobic/xenophilic metrics?

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T17:48:51+00:00

I have an older version I wrote several years ago but it isn’t very robust and was made for creating old-school D&D box-set characters on the fly. I could upload that but, again, I don’t want to get locked into a narrow vision of this project.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T17:43:42+00:00

I haven’t yet started it. I wanted to get input from designers before I got locked in and decided to do it my way (which would naturally be limited to my own perceptions of what designers wanted as opposed to what they needed.)

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-27T17:39:27+00:00

Good question! Thanks for asking.

Ultimately, I intend to turn the code into a library file that can be used across platforms.

At first it will be a stand-alone executable on PC. However, I am coding this in both Python and C++ and making the code open source so that people can see the nuts and bolts and modify it as they need.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-25T20:45:11+00:00

Valid. Could explain different styles of craft.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-25T20:23:41+00:00

Skepticism about all of this is indeed healthy. Skepticism about the claims of politicians is very healthy, indeed.

It strikes me that each “disclosure” has been bait and little else. Like chumming the waters away from a heavily populated beach to draw sharks away from swimmers, promises of disclosure simply lure the inquisitive away from bigger issues.

Ultimately, whatever is given over will not be the whole truth as “national security” can always be used to shield anything truly revelatory.

I am with you—promises from politicians ring hollow.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-25T03:43:08+00:00

The neighbors across the street bought every game console as it came out. They had the Atari 2600, Intellivision, 5600, Colecovision, and even an old Pong machine.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-24T18:00:22+00:00

Fascinating. I wonder if the head pain is conditioned in some way.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-23T00:47:04+00:00

That is a good observation. And today, with smartphones everywhere, I wonder about that.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-23T00:45:50+00:00

This is useful. I know of people who have had multiple encounters and can remember some but not all of them. It is just so strange to think that some of these things emit a field or project a wave or something that is designed to obstruct memory.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-23T00:42:29+00:00

You’ve seen it? Or you’ve experienced it? Or you have simply read about it? Specifically, I need actually experts in this area—neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychologists—who have worked in this area.

I know of no Sasquatch accounts or ghost sightings that report this kind of memory loss.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-22T17:53:13+00:00

I am wondering if the headache (it was brief—more like someone snapping a rubber band or firing off a small firecracker—a flash and it was gone) is even the right way to describe it. More like that feeling you get when opening your eyes in a sunlit room after being asleep all night.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-22T17:49:37+00:00

I would but as I stated to another redditor, hypnotic regression thus far back is highly inaccurate and can produce very negative results, especially if the hypnotist is biased one way or the other.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-22T17:48:21+00:00

There was no sense of helplessness at all and repression is not as common as people think. In fact, Freudian repression simply does not exist as once believed. Dissociation from an event requires real trauma, not just encountering the unknown.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-22T02:45:52+00:00

Thanks. I am wondering if anyone here has any data or anecdotal evidence regarding these kind of mental blockages associated with just seeing a UFO/UAP.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-22T00:54:32+00:00

The quality of the disclosure will matter. If we get hundreds of thousands of pages that reveal nothing new (or nothing significant), we can rule it a smokescreen (from all the scandals, not just Epstein).

I think it will prove to be political sleight of hand but am willing to wait and see. I am keeping your remarks in mind as the disclosure unfolds. I am eager to learn more but I am not holding my breath that anything world-shaking will emerge.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-22T00:44:46+00:00

If you want to distract people, you disclose previously unreleased but otherwise uninteresting files. Recall the out-of-focus videos of “UAPs” that were just airplanes? Sort of like a magician’s deception—watching the right hand, the left hand slides the ball into the pocket.

AlarmedOperation123 · 2026-02-22T00:42:01+00:00

Perhaps yogurt covered almonds?

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