r/SwordWorld

Hey all! I’d like to share my major fork of the SW2.5 system (based on Jean.N’s sw25-fvtt), rebuilt and heavily upgraded for Foundry v14.

• Languages: Full English and Russian interface
• Deep Combat Automation: True one-click flow — Cost check ➔ Attack/Cast roll ➔ Target save ➔ Damage & effects applied (with armor & magic reduction).
• Multi-Section Monsters: Native boss limb targeting directly on the canvas, individual HP pools, and auto-disabling severed parts.
• Active Effects: Timed buffs that expire in combat rounds, DoT effects, and regeneration.
• Class Economies: Bard rhythm & finales, Alchemist material cards (B/A/S/SS), Enhancer techniques, and Rider stunts.
• Makers & Importers: In-game item constructor, monster generator (manual, raw statblock text, or direct ytsheet JSON import).
• Campaign Loop: Character creation wizard, rest, growth rolls, loot tables, shop, and one-click end-of-session rewards.

>Rulebook Content: To respect copyright, no original book text, spells, or monsters are included. Use the built-in importers to bring in your own content.

Installation: Game Systems ➔ Install System ➔ paste this manifest URL: https://github.com/IIP0CTOy/sw25-ru/releases/latest/download/system.json
Issues & Feedback: Since this is an active beta, please report any bugs here: https://github.com/IIP0CTOy/sw25-ru/issues

А follow-up to my last progress report. Since then I've run more sessions with the same party against book monsters, and fixed what broke.

An important note about content

Because of the publishers' restrictions on copying book material, I can't keep the fully extracted data from the original books (monsters, spells, items and so on) in the public fork. It will stay in my own game for personal use. That means the public version will ship as the system and the automation without the book content, and adding monsters will have to be done the old way — by hand. I'm trying to make that as painless as I can, which is what the importer below is for.

Monster abilities (the big one)

• Unique skills now work in one click, like spells: pick targets (or an area / line on the map), roll the check, and every affected target rolls its own Fortitude / Willpower / Evasion save. "Half", "Neg." and "Can't" results are applied from the ability itself, and damage is applied per target — magical damage ignores armor, physical goes through Defense.
• Area and line shapes are stored on the abilities ("Radius 6 m around itself, up to 20 targets", "Line 20 m", "choose a point, radius 3 m"). I filled them in for about 20 monsters and created 13 abilities that were missing from the bestiary.
• The active GM auto-rolls saves for monsters and NPCs; player characters roll with a button on the chat card (or the GM can click it for them). A target that already saved can't be rolled twice, and double-clicking no longer applies damage twice.
• Monster status effects (paralysis, falling, ...) are left to the GM on purpose — the card tells you who failed.

Multi-part monsters — I think I found a workable way Last time I asked for ideas. What I ended up with: one actor, an array of sections (each with its own HP/MP/Defense/Evasion/attack), and a section picker when you target it. The core section's HP mirrors the actor, so the death logic, token bar, loot and XP all keep working; area abilities hit every section; a section at 0 HP is marked down and its abilities switch off. It works on the Garuda (head/body) in play; more testing on the bigger ones (dragons, griffins) is still needed.

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Other fixes

• Round-based effect expiry was silently broken on v14 (poison never wore off) — fixed.
• Players no longer see GM-only buttons or monster HP numbers on chat cards, including after a card re-renders.
• The chat card layout got one unified card per action; target names no longer overlap.
• Rest buttons on the character sheet; loot rolls can't be run twice.

New (prototype): monster importer / generator for GMs Since I don't want to ship book text in public builds, the idea is that each GM builds their own bestiary from the books they own:

• Paste a stat block, or load your book PDF in the browser and enter a page range. It's read locally — nothing is uploaded — and the two-column "Unique Skills" layout is read in the right order using word coordinates.
• The parser understands the English and Russian layouts (Intelligence / Perception / Disposition / Rep/Weak / Initiative / Fortitude / Willpower, the Fight. Style table, Name/15(22)/Willpower/Half, Loot). Japanese comes next once I have sample pages.
• A page with several monsters becomes a list with checkboxes and an editable preview (weak point type, sections, each ability's check, save, result, damage and area/line shape), then "Create selected" makes the actors. There's also a manual constructor with ability templates.
• Tested on the 57 monsters of Core Rulebook I: 56 parsed completely (the exception is Revenant, whose stats vary by design), 110 abilities extracted with the column order intact.
• Status: tested as a standalone page with the real code; I'm wiring it into the system now, so expect rough edges. Demo + screenshot below.

Still in progress

• Items that grant buffs (finishing their effects), conditional bonuses ("vs. undead", "vs. water/ice damage") and damage-over-time effects.
• Fairy-type monster magic, rider-machine abilities (Tilgris, Skybike...), a few conditional monster abilities that are still text only.
• Importer: Japanese parser, OCR for scanned pages, and the same import for weapons/armor and spells.

What I'd love feedback on

1. If you have Japanese books: could you share a couple of stat-block pages (text or photos) for the JP parser?

Demo (no Foundry needed, invented sample monster)

Disclaimer: This is a fan translation. All rights belong to the original creators (Group SNE, Kei Kitazawa, and others). Please support the original creators by buying Sword World books and supplements.

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I'm very interested in the system, but I was curious about how Sword World works with custom worlds and settings rather than campaigns set in Raxia. Does reflavoring or changing class/race restrictions or anything like that negatively impact the experience?

Also, is the experience the same as long as it keeps the mainstays of the system intact? Such as the world having an adventurer's guild or something similar.

Does anyone have any experience running SW within their own worlds/campaigns? Any insight would be appreciated