Multiple Random Tables

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• jjdale

  April 21

  Sure, you would just have a first table that gets results from the additional tables. E.g.,

  Table: main
  [@title] [@firstname] [@lastname]

  Table: title
  King
  Duke
  Duchess

  etc. The secondary tables can also call additional tables of their own (e.g., maybe you have three subtables for the first, second, and third part of each name). In this case you might also split it out to handle gender, e.g.,

  Table: main
  [@femaletitle] [@femalename] [@lastname]
  [@maletitle] [@malename] [@lastname]

  Table: maletitle
  Baron
  Duke
  King

  Table: femaletitle
  Baronness
  Duchess
  Queen

  etc.
• OOldManThar

  April 21

  Excellent. I am just getting into IPP and what it can handle. I will do some experimenting and see if I can cannibalize some of the included tables to help me.

  Thank you!
• jjdale

  April 22

  Going through the existing tables is a great way to see what's possible.

  The simplest way to use IPP is just as a single table. The next step up is basically Mad Libs. Once you have those down, there is a lot more you can do....
• OOldManThar

  May 28

  Once I have a handle on this I am intending to do the Tome of Adventure Design and possibly any number of other random table books I own.
• OOldeMusicke

  May 28

  IPP is tailor-made for things like the Tome of Adventure Design -- a chain of tables to roll on -- as long as you have the patience to reformat tables. The Tome has lots of tables that are really multiple tables in one. One of many examples is a locations table that involves four d100 rolls. In IPP, that would be four distinct tables, so you'd have to extract each column separately.
• jjdale

  May 28

  But once you've done it, you can do all those rolls and subrolls with one click. I usually end up adding a bunch of additional options and details when I convert things into IPP too.
• OOldManThar

  May 29

  I just spent a month separating the separate columns. The only thing I am stuck on, thus far is the codes/cyphers and alternate alphabets in TOAD(Tome of Adventure Design). I wish it would work more like my original post and have it all in one sheet as opposed to separating them out. The big thing about this is I wanted this to be android/windows capable and why I decided doing it in IPP.
• OOldManThar

  May 29

  After this I may venture to Tome of World Building and the Nominomicon as well as The Thinganomicon 1 and 2, The Dread Thingonomicon, and the Ultimate Toolbox (AEG). I own all of them. Just would like to use them in an easier manner than PDF or carrying around the books. I am also certain I have a ton other random tables too.
• jjdale

  May 29

  You can sometimes use prompts to select between different options, although there is a limit to how many you can use.

  I'm not familiar with TOAD so I don't know anything about their codes, cyphers, and alternate alphabets.
• OOldeMusicke

  June 1

  You can embed HTML in the output. If you can identify font names for the codes and ciphers, you can use constructions like the following:

  <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Hello!</span>
• OOldeMusicke

  June 1

  I should add that you can also use HTML entities. The Greek letters can be rendered as Π or π to get Π or π.

  For runes, you can enter their decimal values: ᚠ to get ᚠ
  See https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_runic.asp
• OOldeMusicke

  June 1

  One more thing: You can do a substitution cypher (up to a point). Read up on the eachchar filter. The second example in the IPP help shows how to pass each character of a string to a dictionary table where you do the conversions. The limitation is that IPP doesn't accept all possible characters as index values. Letters are no problem, but you'd have to experiment to see which other character types are usable that way. For example, you might have no problem with "Hello" but something like "Hello there!" might turn out to be problematic.