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While reading through the Pathfinder Core Rule book I notice there is a specific way to randomly generate magic items for town shops. I thought about possibly creating some code to generate magic items. However, to start I needed the basic data found in the rule book for equipment. Below I give you a JSON file I created of the SRD 3.5 equipment: https://nessy.info/equipment.json In [1]: from urllib2 import urlopen In [2]: from json import loads In [3]: data = urlopen('https://nessy.

I’m still relatively new to Pathfinder and tabletop RPGs in general, but being as I’ve just started running The Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path Anniversary edition I’ve created a few handy helper files. One of this files is the Sandpoint at a glance document . This document has been exported as a easy to print PDF, and includes all locations of shops and key points in the town of Sandpoint.

So back at it, now with some code to decode the common financial card: Let start out by showing the end results of scanning my Freebirds card: # ./main.py Please swipe your card now: Raw String: %B???????????^FANATIC/FREEBIRDS^4211?;????????????=???????????? Card Holder: FANATIC/FREEBIRDS Card Number: ????-????-????-???? Expiration Date: 11/42 As you can see we still have our raw string, this is being decoded from the code I used last time. However now I have the Card Holder’s name, Card Number, and Expiration date, this format was all outlined quite well on Wikipedia .

So just the other day I received my MagTek MSR100 in the mail, this unit only cost me about $20 and I have to say I’m very satisfied with it. After opening the box it was delivered in I quickly noticed no documentation was provided. No worries I figured, this will make hacking at it that much more fun. I started out by connecting the USB device to my Gentoo Linux laptop and swiped a card, I noticed on my console prompt the card data was spewed out.

After spending a bit of time hacking at the gamepad I decided to take a deeper look in to how /dev devices worked in Python, the easiest device I could get my hands on of course was a keyboard. First things first I needed to discover which device name represented my keyboard, to do this I used the virtual /proc filesystem at /proc/bus/input/devices : I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41 N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event2 B: PROP=0 B: EV=120013 B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 f800d001 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe B: MSC=10 B: LED=7 From the above output I can see my device is event2 within Handlers, which I know is the block device /dev/input/event2 .