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Ask HN: Web framework for custom character sheets?
3 points by jvanderbot on May 4, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I'm making a TTRPG, and the skill system involves lots of synergy hierarchies, and interactions. It involves rules that are easy to express in code, but just complicated enough that Excel is very cumbersome. Add to that Excel doesn't have a "roll this check" functionality.

Is there a JS lib or Django-like stack for building something that would serve as a character sheet builder?

I'd like to avoid Roll20 based on their junk mapping utils.



I don't know of any, and I honestly didn't think to look before I started building a character sheet web-app for a friend.

Honestly, if it's easy to express in code, and is a brand new thing, it might be easier to write from scratch than it would be to fight assumptions a framework might have. But maybe I'm wildly wrong, and have been wasting hours writing boilerplate :P





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