Magic Item Compendium in Pathfinder

[masteraj1991]

Has anyone been able to put the Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Magic Item Compendium in Pathfinder Hero Lab? There are a bunch of cool things in that book that I'd love to have in the program.

[Nanan00]

Not that I know of, Lawful G was working on one for 3.5 but due to how pathfinder stuff was coded it is not compatible with 3.5 and vice versa sadly.

You could always code it yourself, I have for several items and spells such as the Orbs from the Spells compendium.

[Aaron]

Yeah, sadly the systems are different enough that none of my 3.5 work will transfer over to the pathfinder files. Sorry.

[Nanan00]

Aaron do you guys have enough info on the two coding systems listed out to where someone could make a perl script to translate from one to the other?

[Aaron]

I'm pretty familiar with both, but I know nothing of perl, or what sort of info would be needed.

[risner]

Originally Posted by Nanan00

Aaron do you guys have enough info on the two coding systems listed out to where someone could make a perl script to translate from one to the other?

I'm familiar with both and with perl.

I'd wager it would take longer to properly write a perl script to translate than it would be to translate.

I translated the Spell Compendium to Pathfinder via a perl script, but in the scope of things that involved very little changes.

[RavenX]

To be honest, I've had to take many 3.5 things in the data files I created for Pathfinder and do extensive work converting things over. While I do feel your pain on this, as I too liked this book in 3.5, I honestly don't have the motivation to hand code that many magic items and go through the work converting them. It's been difficult enough making Forgotten Realms and Dark Sun work in Pathfinders rule books.

To be blunt, a single person working on this book, chapter by chapter, 40 hours coding a week might still take almost a year to do by themselves. On top of the item descriptions the scripting needs to be done on many items and that can take time to figure out. You're more than welcome to use the editor to Input the items and use paizo's 3.5 to Pathfinder conversion guide to do it, but I'd recommend collaborating with a group of people to get it done. That book is a lot of items for just one person to do. And it will require careful judgment on conversion work.

[Aaron]

If you want my input on just how daunting the book was for me when I did it for 3.5, it was probably about 4 hours of work, most weekdays, for about 2 semesters. But that wasn't including QA, I'm sure a bunch of mistakes crept in whilst I wasn't looking.

[RavenX]

That's why I'm not as willing to tackle something so big Aaron. I'm well aware of how big some of the 3.5 books are in terms of content. I've got more than enough on my plate already.

[Aaron]

Hey I don't blame you. Not everyone can have no social life like me!