masteraj1991
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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.
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Magic Item Compendium in Pathfinder
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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.
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.
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.
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