DC20 Beyond

A digital character sheet for the TTRPG DC20

This sheet (once it's done) will allow you to:

• Create a character
• Track that character's stats, points and levels in the app
• Save and re-load your created character
• And later much more!

DISCLAIMER

This project is still a work in progress, you can follow my development in the "TODO" section below!

in the meantime, you can check out the project in action

Todo

• Make it deploy
• Scaffold basic UI
• Tidy up build process
• actually set up a DB
• Building the actual DB schema
• Adding Auth (with Clerk)
• Linking the DB to the character sheet component
• "taint" (server-only)
• Build a mock character sheet on the front-end
• Adding some basic interactivity to the character sheet
• Storing that interactivity to the db
• Create (or import) a toast system to alert the user to stuff
• Build a basic form scaffold for character creation
  • Player and character name
  • Attribute Scores
    • Standard Array
    • Point buy
    • Roll/manual
    • Choose saves
  • Background
    • Skills
      • providing a list of skills to choose, grouped by governing attribute
        • Make sure to include knowlege skills
      • pulling intelligence points from previous stage to limit choices
      • allowing an option to convert skill points into trade points?
    • Trades
      • Somehow provide a list of trades
      • allowing the user to select 3 trades
      • allowing the user to convert a trade point to 2 language points
    • Languages
      • providing a list of languages
      • allowing a user to select 2 language points
      • allowing a user to either be stumbling or fluent in each language
    • registering choices to the in-progress character
  • Ancestry
    • choose between a full or half ancestry
    • if half
      • * provide a list of each ancestry's traits
      • limit the user's choice of ancestry traits to 5 ancestry points
    • register the player's choice of ancestry traits to their in-progress character
  • Class
    • the player must now choose a character class
    • * provide the class features each class offers at level 1
      • Also list out any bonus HP, the kind of class it is, and how many spells they can pick
      • Also resolve any skills the class gives you
  • Calculate Everything else
    • Combat masteries
    • Health
    • Stamina and Mana
    • Defenses
    • Damage Reduction
    • Attack / Spell checks
    • Save DCs
    • Martial check
    • Death Threshold
    • move Speed
    • Jump Distance
    • Rest Points
    • Grit Points
• style the form
• allow a user to go back through the form and change things
• style the character sheet
• Create a backend API/database for classes, ancestries and other attributes
• implement routing for this form / the character sheet
• Start populating this form with choices from the core rulebook
  • this will likely require the actual rulebook
• Error management?
• Add Testing
• Add Character sheet exports
• *Add character sheet imports
• Analytics (posthog)
• Ratelimiting (upstash)