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Can Excel do this?
Ok, what I am doing is trying to create an excel sheet that will tell the experience given per encounter in our RPG game. The game gives every monster a challenge code. It then has a table that says how difficult each challenge code should be to a group, depending on the group's average level. So the Challenge Rating table is something like this: Level Easy Challenging Extreme 1 A B C 2 A B C 3 B C D 4 B C D 5 B C D 6 C D E 7 C D E 8 C D E 9 D E F 10 D E F 11 D E F 12 E F G 13 E F G 14 E F G 15 F G H 16 F G H 17 F G H 18 G H I 19 G H I 20 G H I And the EXP table is like this: Level Easy Challenging Extreme 1 100 300 400 2 200 600 800 3 300 900 1200 etc.... So the first sheet is layed out like this: Group Level: Challenge Code of Encounter: EXP awarded to group: I want the EXP number to be filled in automatically when the user inputs the group level and Challenge Code of the encounter. Is there any way to do this? -- xmaveric ------------------------------------------------------------------------ xmaveric's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26440 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397117 |
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=VLOOKUP(level,challenge table,MATCH(challenge rating,challenge table,0),FALSE) will find your rating......abc etc =vlookup(level,exp table,match(challenge rating,exp table,0),false) will find your experience points or have i missed something? paul remove nospam for email addy! "xmaveric" wrote: Ok, what I am doing is trying to create an excel sheet that will tell the experience given per encounter in our RPG game. The game gives every monster a challenge code. It then has a table that says how difficult each challenge code should be to a group, depending on the group's average level. So the Challenge Rating table is something like this: Level Easy Challenging Extreme 1 A B C 2 A B C 3 B C D 4 B C D 5 B C D 6 C D E 7 C D E 8 C D E 9 D E F 10 D E F 11 D E F 12 E F G 13 E F G 14 E F G 15 F G H 16 F G H 17 F G H 18 G H I 19 G H I 20 G H I And the EXP table is like this: Level Easy Challenging Extreme 1 100 300 400 2 200 600 800 3 300 900 1200 etc.... So the first sheet is layed out like this: Group Level: Challenge Code of Encounter: EXP awarded to group: I want the EXP number to be filled in automatically when the user inputs the group level and Challenge Code of the encounter. Is there any way to do this? -- xmaveric ------------------------------------------------------------------------ xmaveric's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=26440 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397117 |
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Hi, I am a little confused over the relationship between to 2 tables. How does a challenge code of A relate to an Experience award? Anyway, I hope the following provides a clue as to an answer to the question. Set up a sheet to allow entry of the group's level, say in cell E1 and set the value to 1. Set-up the Challenge level in cell E2 and set the value to "Easy". Use DataValidation to ensure that values are between 1 and 20 for group or are only "easy", "Challenging" or "Extreme" for challenge level. Press ALT+11 and insert a new module. In the new module copy in the following code... Code: -------------------- Function AwardXP(pintLevel As Integer, _ pstrChallenge As String) ' Custom Function to return Experience for an encounter ' ' Inputs ' pintLevel Integer Level of group ' pstrChallenge String Level of encounter (Easy, Challenging, or Extreme) ' ' Output ' AwardXP Integer Experience for encounter 'Declarations Dim intChallenge 'Convert Challenge string in to a number Select Case pstrChallenge Case "Easy" intChallenge = 1 Case "Challenging" intChallenge = 3 Case "Extreme" intChallenge = 4 End Select 'Calculate experience AwardXP = (pintLevel * 100) * intChallenge End Function -------------------- Press Alt+F11 again. In cell E3 enter the following formula Code: -------------------- =AwardXP(E1, E2) -------------------- Cell E3 should now show 100. How this works... Each challenge entry for cell E2 is converted into a number under "Convert Challenge string in to a number". Data validation ensures only 3 challenge types are possible. Hence "Easy" = 1, "Challenging" = 3 and "Extreme" = 4. You can easily amend these values or add different challenge codes. I have set the formula in the code under "Calculate experience" as: Group's level * 100 * Challenge Code. Easy (cell E2) has a challenge code of 1, and the Group level (cell E1) = 1, thus: Group's level * 100 * Challenge Code becomes 1 * 100 * 1 = 100 If you amend cell E1 to 9 and cell E2 to "Extreme" you get: 9 * 100 * 4 = 3600 Hopefully using the above you can amend the forumla to suit yourself. One tip. If you set up a column containing 1 through 20 in different cells, and another column containing Easy, Challenging and Extreme, you can use DataValidation, select list and ensure in cell dropdown is checked. In cell E1 do this using the column of numbers as the source and for cell E2 the column of Easy, etc as the source. You'll then get dropdown boxes in the cells that a) save typing and b) ensure that only valid entries can be set. HTH Art -- HiArt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HiArt's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=19953 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=397117 |
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