srdine

/saar.deen/ A tool to finagle the Dungeons and Dragons 5e Systems Reference Document.

The original SRD from Wizards of the Coast is missing the table of contents, for now this tool generates that table of contents, but it can also serve as a base to do more processing.

Screenshots

Table of contents and document with monster thumbnails

Table of contents with indices by monster attributes

HTML monster page

Features

• Generates a new pdf with the table of contents plus all the original content and monster thumbnails from dndbeyond
• Generates extra table of content monster sections indexed by size, CR, type
• Generates HTML monster pages using dndbeyond template
• Generates JSON file of monsters
• Generates JSON file of the document
• Generates markdown file of the document (preliminary)

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• PyMuPDF 1.16.17
• Dungeons and Dragons 5e OGL SRD or Dungeons and Dragons 5e CC SRD.

Usage

1. Download the Dungeons and Dragons SRD
2. In order to generate monster thumbnails, download monster.json from releases and place it in the same directory as the pdf
3. Invoke srdine.py with the location of the SRD pdf, eg

   >srdine.py _out\SRD-OGL_V5.1.pdf
   Reading json _out\monsters.json
   Loaded 317 monsters
   Reading pdf _out\SRD_CC_v5.1.pdf
   Generating TOC
   Generating pdf with TOC _out\SRD_CC_v5.1_TOC.pdf
   Adding monster thumbnails to _out\SRD_CC_v5.1_TOC.pdf
   Writing pdf _out\SRD_CC_v5.1_TOC.pdf
   Writing _out\SRD_CC_v5.1.json
   Writing _out\SRD_CC_v5.1.md
   Generating 317 monster _out\monsters.json
   Downloading resources for html monster pages
   Downloading template resources
   Generating 317 html monster pages at _out\html

   it will generate the file _out\SRD-OGL_V5.1_TOC.pdf

Todo

• Better markdown output
• Spell parsing?