DW Monster Cards eases the creation of 4" x 5.5" Dungeon World monster cards (ex. monster_cards.pdf). In addition to the primary PDF creation functionality, dwmc.py also has has some utility functions.
- Dungeon World Github source XML files
- YAML files
- CSV (ex. mail merge your own cards, import into DB)
- PDF
- front document: monster_cards.pdf (39 pages)
- back/reverse document: back_example.pdf (1 page)
- plain text
Custom monster can easily be created in YAML format and used to generate a PDF.
To aid readability and reference, the tags are sorted first by category, then by either size or alphabitically. The categories are delimited by tildas ("~").
The last item on the cards are page references to the monster and setting page numbers in the main Dungeon World book.
Help:
usage: dwmc.py [-h] [--back-image FILE] [--back-pdf FILE] [--csv FILE]
[--pdf FILE] [--plain] [--yaml DIR]
[FILE [FILE ...]]
Create Dungeon World Monster Cards PDF (reads source XML and YAML, also
writes CSV and YAML).
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--back-image FILE Image to use for back of monster cards (requires
--back-pdf)
Output Arguments:
Mutually exclusive arguments that determine type of output.
--back-pdf FILE Create PDF of back of monster cards (requires
--back-image)
--csv FILE Create CSV of monsters
--pdf FILE Create PDF of monster cards
--plain Output plain text monster entries (handy for
debugging)
--yaml DIR Create YAML files for each monster in DIR
Source File(s):
FILE XML or YAML source file(s) to parse (required by all
output arguments except --back-pdf)
Read Dungeon World Github and custom YAML files to create a CSV file containing both:
./dwmc.py --csv all_monsters.csv alpha-monsters/*.yaml \
~/git/Dungeon-World/text/monster_settings/*.xml
Use leviathan_old.jpg to create example back page:
./dwmc.py --pdf-back back_example.pdf --pdf-image leviathan_old.jpg
Read custom YAML files to create a single page of monster of four monster cards:
./dwmc.py --pdf alpha_campaign.pdf alpha-monsters/phi.yaml \
alpha-monsters/chi.yaml alpha-monsters/psi.yaml \
alpha-monsters/omega.yaml
Read Dungeon World Github source XML files and export to YAML files in
yaml directory:
./dwmc.py --yaml yaml/ ~/git/Dungeon-World/text/monster_settings/*.xml