Improvement - Extract Magic Item data from Description

There is data in the description field of a magic items that would be useful to extract out into their own fields for better access. The first item in the description array holds the item type, as well as the the rarity (or rarities in some instances). So my proposal would be to add a couple fields to the magic item.

First one would be an object named magic_item_category:

{
  "name":  __,
  "desc": __
}

And the second one would be an array named rarity:

[
  {
    "name": __,
     "desc":  __
  }
]

Example:

{
  "index": "ammunition",
  "name": "Ammunition, +1, +2, or +3",
  "equipment_category": {
    "index": "ammunition",
    "name": "Ammunition",
    "url": "/api/equipment-categories/ammunition"
  },
  "magic_item_category": {
    "name": "Weapon",
    "desc": "any ammunition"
  },
  "rarity": [
    {
      "name": "uncommon",
      "desc": "+1"
    },
    {
      "name": "rare",
      "desc": "+2"
    },
    {
      "name": "very rare",
      "desc": "+3"
    }
  ],
  "desc": [
    "Weapon (any ammunition), uncommon (+1), rare (+2), or very rare (+3)",
    "You have a bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this piece of magic ammunition. The bonus is determined by the rarity of the ammunition. Once it hits a target, the ammunition is no longer magical."
  ],
  "url": "/api/magic-items/ammunition"
}

Certainly interested in having a discussion on these purposed changes and seeing what we can work out.

[mloberg]

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll make some changes to address this sometime this week. Here’s my plan on what to do:

• Keep the original items and create a “variants” array. These items will have a “Varies” rarity value
• On the variants, update the text to match the variant description
• Split out variants with the same rarity
• Give the variants unique names like “Gray Bag of Tricks”

{
    "index": "ammunition",
    "name": "Ammunition, +1, +2, or +3",
    "equipment_category": {
      "index": "ammunition",
      "name": "Ammunition",
      "url": "/api/equipment-categories/ammunition"
    },
    "rarity": {
      "name": "Varies"
    },
    "variants": [
      {
        "index": "ammunition-1",
        "name": "Ammunition, +1",
        "url": "/api/magic-items/ammunition-1"
      },
      // more variants here
    ],
    "desc": [
      "Weapon (any ammunition), uncommon (+1), rare (+2), or very rare (+3)",
      "You have a bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this piece of magic ammunition. The bonus is determined by the rarity of the ammunition. Once it hits a target, the ammunition is no longer magical."
    ],
    "url": "/api/magic-items/ammunition"
  },
  {
    "index": "ammunition-1",
    "name": "Ammunition, +1",
    "equipment_category": {
      "index": "ammunition",
      "name": "Ammunition",
      "url": "/api/equipment-categories/ammunition"
    },
    "rarity": {
      "name": "Uncommon"
    },
    "variants": [],
    "desc": [
      "Weapon (any ammunition), uncommon",
      "You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this piece of magic ammunition. Once it hits a target, the ammunition is no longer magical."
    ],
    "url": "/api/magic-items/ammunition-1"
  },

[mjl757]

@bagelbits I’ll be honest, I wrote this a year ago when I was on vacation in Mexico, and I’m not sure what I was going for there. I clearly intended there to be some difference, but what it is? I can’t say. I think this issue can be considered closed with the variant item changes.