This site is a compilation of Vampire: the Eternal Struggle strategy resources. The site is publicly available at codex-of-the-damned.org.

Portions of the materials are the copyrights and trademarks of Paradox Interactive AB, and are used with permission. All rights reserved. For more information please visit www.worldofdarkness.com.

Contributions are welcome. Pull Requests will be merged if they respect the general style. Issues will be dealt with as quickly as possible.

This site uses Flask and Babel to generate pages dynamically and handle internationalisation.

To install a working developpment version of the site, use pip:

python3 -m venv venv
pip install -e ".[dev]"

There is a make command to update translations:

make po

You can run the development version of the site using the codex entrypoint:

$ codex
 * Serving Flask app "codex_of_the_damned" (lazy loading)
 * Environment: production
   WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
   Use a production WSGI server instead.
 * Debug mode: off
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

You can set the DEBUG environment variable to activate the debug mode:

DEBUG=1 codex

To run the production server, you'll need a web server like uWSGI:

uwsgi --module codex_of_the_damned:app

or Gunicorn:

gunicorn codex_of_the_damned:app

Convert icons from raster to SVG using imagemagick and potrace, depending on the icon, smoothing may be better or not:

convert -morphology Smooth Octagon:2 clan-ahrimanes.gif clan-ahrimanes.svg

Use python and Google Translate to help with translation:

import clipboard
import pprint
import re

def pre():
    s = "".join(s[1:-1] for s in clipboard.paste().split("\n"))
    s = re.sub(r"%\(([^\)]*)\)s", r"§K3PX\1§", s)
    clipboard.copy(s)

def post():
    s = clipboard.paste()
    s = pprint.pformat(re.sub(r"§K3PX([^§]*)§", r"%(\1)s", s), width=120)
    s = re.sub(
            r"(^')|('$)",
            '"',
            re.sub(r"^\s*", "", s[1:-1], flags=re.MULTILINE),
            flags=re.MULTILINE
        ).replace("\\n", "")
    clipboard.copy(s)

# usage:
#  > copy paragraph to translate from the PO file
# pre()
# > copy translation
# post()
# > copy result to the PO file