I'm very excited about this latest bit of code and data that I checked in today. I fixed the stats so that they load a template from whatever gaming system is currently setup to run. First let me enumerate the systems that I tested with today:

• Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Quick Start
• GURPS Lite - Generic system, can literally run any genre
• PathFinder - D&D 3rd edition clone
• ShadowRun - Magic and SciFi together
• The Artifact - Science Fiction
• Warrior, Rogue, and Mage - Very simple fantasy system

I got the stats loading for each one. Here are screen captures for each:

Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition Quick Start

GURPS Lite

PathFinder

ShadowRun 3rd Edition

The Artifact

Warrior, Rogue, and Mage

As you can see, I have the stats for all of these 5 gaming systems loading. It was relatively painless to do this. It took me about 15 minutes per new gaming system to get the stats up and running. Here are the steps:

1. Navigate to the Files\GameRules directory
2. Create a directory to hold your new game system's content
3. Create a Data and Parsers directories under this root directory
4. Create a XML file to hold the stat information, and put it in the Data directory
5. Create a C# parser file, and put it in the Parsers directory
6. Create a master xml file and place it in the Files\GameRules directory
7. Adjust the contents of the master file to point to the root game directory
8. Modify the mud.config file for the new system

Here's a screen capture of the region of the mud.config file that we need to change:

The values above will run The Artifact rules. The most important key here is "masterfile" that will tell WheelMUD which system to pick up. The "currentruleset" value is a human readable label that will be used in WheelMUD for admins and builders.

My main push behind this, is so that I can start figuring out how to do basic combat. I really want to get the core systems working ASAP. I will be moving a lot of stuff off the 0.5 task list, so that we can concentrate on core stuff. The first casualty will be the remote admin stuff. That's just distracting me completing the core systems, which is what we all want to get done.