As an avid Pathfinder 1E fan, I love worldbuilding and character creation aspects of the game. For years I have depended on d20pfsrd.com for their comprehensive cataloguing of open source content produced by paizo and other third party publishers.
But anyone knows who has had 30+ tabs open, one for every spell, feat and class feature you are looking into, better tools are needed. And I think that since the content is open source it has motivated me to think deeply about this type of "OGC" - Open Gaming Content.
Introducing the Spellbook - on thecrazygm.com!
We have many ideas with thecrazygm.com, but we are working from the backend first, as always. Remember we have moved all our HIVE tools to the website tools.crypto-dreamr.com, these are essential tools and you will see more soon what all we have been working on. But as standalone tools for power users, they are now there for you - not just open sourced repos but freely and securely hosted.
That leaves thecrazygm.com free for more "game master" related things and, among other fun utilities, we have launched a Spell Filter for Pathfinder 1E OGC Spells!
It happens to be the case that I have been looking into the Summoner class, and the Summoner is interesting because he gets certain spells at a lower level than other classes.
This is useful for several things in the game, but its very difficult to research this without a filter, without working with the data as an actual dataset. Our first 1401 open source spells for Pathfinder 1E are on the site now, and completely searchable/filterable. And maybe you too can get Baleful Polymorph as a level 4 spell.
Eco The Exploiter Wizard will of course craft it as a wand now. All thanks to data filtering!
When I look back over what we have built in the last year, I am quite proud. I suppose I can see it a bit better than almost anyone else, but not only do we have a great base of open source work, we also have a lot of follow on things being built. TheCrazyGM.com is one of those things, a long term project that finally has its feet under it and should just keep getting better and better.
There is more to come, things have been being built. Some people have told me that "I have been quiet lately", and I saw someone else saying that "I got burned out after running too fast", which probably is true - I am not as young as I once was and I suppose I was surprised about the true "cost" of the energy spent early in the year.
But we continue - I've said it a few time - you actually couldn't get rid of me if you tried 😂
If you are into pathfinder, and I know there are a few of you out there, make sure I am aware of it! We love this game (and other OGC variants too, not to worry, but you have to start somewhere!)
I remember Pathfinder adventure paths fondly, but the 'manuscript-sized' character sheets were a real pain. We spent too much time passing the manual around to check mechanics mid-turn. This spell compendium is exactly what we need to streamline play and get back to the heart of the game. Good job!!!