In my last D&D post I had at least the first problems worked out for Character race. Now I think I will move into the most challenging of all the 'Class' of a character.

In D&D a 'Class' is the role (JOB) a character plays in the game ie fighter, thief, mage etc. There are 5 primary Classes and 5 sub classes which is easy enough to model with Moose a 'Role' for each of the 10 and we are done.

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In the continuing story of Moose and D&D I left off with what I think was a slick use of Moose:Util to load in a Character's race.

As all long term D&D players now you will eventually run into a player who says the following;

Well in my present 'Character' class I allow this as my race is just a string.

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With my last post I managed to apply a role to an instance of a class. What I think this will allow me to do is keep my base 'classes' from sprawling out of control while also encapsulation a good number of Game Rules' (or Biz Rules) in to small parts that I can easily reuse.

So far it has handled things quite well and even taught me a few things and I think has really exposed what Roles can do in Moose. Now as my D&D story moves along I am about to jump into what I thin…

In my last D&D post I managed to get my generic 'OpenDoorsOnA' role working with my 'Fighter' class but I was left wondering if I would make better sense to make 'Exceptional' Strength a role then only use it the rare time that a 'Fighter' character has 18 strength????

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With apologies to The Bard and The Scottish Play for the bad miss-quote above. I am continuing on with my D&D Moose Quest. The last post I left of with what to do now that I am going to try to use a number of Mixins and how they perhaps can work with other classes.

I have chosen the 'OpenDoorsOnA' character ability as it is one that is not only effected by 'Strengt…

In my last D&D post I left off with my six abilities as attributes in my character class and two 'traits/roles', ('Languages' and 'Henchmen') it did leave me with the question. Should I treat all or just some these character abilities as 'trait/roles' or should some be subs in my base class or $flip back and make my base abilities roles or even to go back to square one again and just make them subs in my original base class??

So I did a little reading and thinking and personally all these …

Well it seems I am making a little progress with D&D 'Character' classes I think I even got a role that will stick. I did have a little unfinished business from my previous post with my 'Character' class that I have to fix.

Namely it is important to the game that I know the current value of an ability which may change, and the initial value which will not, but I do not want to add in all sorts of attributes with funny odd names. So putting on my game design/players hat for a second,…

Well that is the way I feel today, but at least, like Marvin, I am ready to start again. I tried in my last post to introduce a role into my D&D classes and all I ended up with what is what I started with, a muddle!

Well having another look at 'Intelligence', 'Characters' and 'Languages' I know that all 'Characters' h…

I left off from my last D&D post still looking for a role, but at least I settle on simple base class 'Ability' which I will extend into six abilities.

Now looking at each ability they all have differing effects depending on the value. So lets look at 'Intelligence' this time. According to the 'rules' it seems the more Intelligence you have the more languages your character can speak,as well for ="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_%28Dungeons_%26_Dragons%29#Advanced_Dungeons_.26_Dragons_1st_…

In my last post I started out modeling D&D characters with Moose to examine how roles could be applied

I ended with very little code written before I had to make a decision on using my first role or to use more traditional object extension.

Now, Looking at 'abilities' they all have the same set of common attributes, (I will just use a few)

• name


• initial value


• current value

So to make this a class we would just do this

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