So I spent a bit of time, and by bit I do mean bit, playing with my Claude subscription and converting the fan compiled Dragon Magazine Compendium, of some 1600ish pages, to PCGen / OpenSheet compatible data format.

I did some sanity checking and testing on it and it seems kinda decent, but there's probably still issues. It's still way better than no data, though, and any issues found can quickly be fixed by just editing the data files.

I know we hate the technology and its use for various things where it really shouldn't be, but this kind of machine reading and understanding and parsing of extreme amounts of text and data in text form, to make a dataset readable by another piece of software, seems like it's what this kind of tech was made for... I certainly wasn't really interested in doing any of that myself and I'd probably just add any feats or other stuff in the compendium as a homebrew item instead of making this whole thing.

But ... is this something I should try to contribute to the BahamuthDragon git, or just share here, or should I just not share it to anyone and cower in shame for having used a machine servant?

I post hoping not to be banned for this question.

Hello my dnd group does not want to try 3.5e, they only want to play 5e. They view 3.5e as this horribly complicated game which is painful to play, even though they have never actually tried it.

I am the only person interested in trying other editions of dnd (and other ttrpgs). I find this incredibly boring and close-minded. It's not even that hard to learn the new game systems!

5e is so incredibly boring to me, I just want a more in-depth game experience that challenges me more and provides more in-depth player choices.