Hello,

I want to share a design that I'm using in my RPG text game. You may have heard about the dictionary method for parsing a command, but might have missed this. I've created some emitters in my development that follow simple and known constructs. I have count down emitters, pulse or timer pulse emitters, and constant emitters. However, it got really interesting when I joined that with action fields on the emitter in the database. Consider this string:

deals elemental fire damage 2d8.

Not a big deal, but what if we go farther with it?

deals elemental fire damage 2d8 while on ship

Or

replenish hp 2d12 racial exclusion orc.

Pretty nifty eh?