DMA - Dungeon Master Assistant

Goal

Welcome to DMA, your Dungeon Master Assistant.
The tool is intended to help Dungeon Masters (and to a limited degree players) prepare and keep track of the game. In it final realization, it should be able to take care of most of the data of a campaign, including items, monsters, and npcs, but also regions, shops, taverns, gods and events of a campaign. In it's current state the tool only provides detailed information about D&D products and items.

Rules

DMA is based on the Dungeons & Dragons rules (version 3.5), with some simplification or clarifications made where necessary.

Requirements

The tool runs as it's own web server and provides access to its information via a web interface (as can be seen on these pages). The tool only requires Java 6 to run.

Data

All the data that is provided by DMA is read from a set of .dma files. These are text files with a special, though human readable form to define all the entities inside the tool.
The tool divides all entities into two main categories, namely base entries and entries. As the name implies, base entries are the base value and they represent information that is static throughout one or even several campaigns. On the other hand, entries represent actual objects used in a game.
For example, the base entry for a long sword contains all the game information for a typical long sword (damage, value, weight, etc.). On the other hand, the long sword entry contains information about a specific long sword wielded by a character in a campaign. Thus while there may be only one base long sword, there might be multiple long sword, which all derive the base values from the base entry.
As another example, base products represent the various available products by Wizards of the Coast and others. The products represent those books that actually sit in my book shelf.

Help

As I did not yet create any help or download pages (yet), please contact dma 'at' ixitxachitls 'dot' net for additional information.
Please select one of the index categories on the left to start browsing entries.

Feedback

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