Divinity Original Sin 2 - Character Template

• Project was undertaken to prevent some of the "napkin theorycrafting" my friends and I were doing between sessions. This lets us "build" potential characters, and save them to try when we have our next session!
  • This project was built in two parts - first being building a web scraper (check out the web scraper repo), and the second was using the scraped data to build the site!
• Check the site out live via AWS: http://18.221.143.236
  • 503 means I most likely took it down. Playing with AWS so I can leave this up full time while remaining in the "free tier" of usage!

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Technologies Used
• Features
• Setup
• Usage
• Project Status
• Room for Improvement
• Acknowledgements

General Information

• My friends and I enjoy playing the Role Playing game Divinity Original Sin 2 together. However, our schedules do not frequently line up so that we have blocks of time where we are all free to sit down and play together.
• I created this project after countless times of losing potential character builds to lost "napkin theorycrafting"

Technologies Used

• Spring Boot
• htmlunit library
• CommandLineRunner interface

Features

• Built Webscraper from scratch!
• Scraped data is passed into a MySQL Workbench Database
• That data is then used to display spell information on webpage

Setup

• Project dependencies can be found in the pom.xml file

Usage

• Dream up a character idea that sounds fun to play!
• Create that on the site, and allocate points to spell schools. The spells you're able to learn at those level breakpoints will be displayed!
• Save the character to reference later!

Project Status

Project is: in progress!

• While the current version does accomplish what I wanted it to at a very basic level, there is MUCH to improve upon.

Room for Improvement

Room for improvement:

• Improve the Webscraper so that the data coming through is cleaner.
  • This was/is a challenge because the information is coming from a wiki. Those are maintained and updated by any number of folks, so the table structures aren't uniform. It makes grabbing data difficult.

To do:

• Make the display of potential spells friendlier
• Add in a section for Abilities
• Add in a section for Gear that can add to Spell School level
• Add a "required level" so you know what the minimum level is to put this together

Acknowledgements

• A huge thank you to the folks at Divinity Original Sin 2 Wiki for creating and maintaining the site!
• A big thank you to the folks who created this template