Bugs, news and stuff: Re: [pcgen] adding general ability

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Re: [pcgen] adding general ability

Hi,

Normally I'd refer you to the LST file help group, but since the odds are I would answer it anyways, I'll just post it here:

When making home brew alterations, you need to ask yourself one question: Who is this intended for? (Your own use, or your players?)

If it's you, change whatever you want and hack on to your hearts content. If it's others, then I'd recommend the standards.

You only method:
FILE: Template, location, anywhere...

Homebrew Rule ~ Add two background skills
    CHOOSE:SKILLS|List|Of|Skills|Here|Or|The|TYPE=Here
    MULT:YES
    STACK:NO
    SELECT:2
    BONUS:SKILLRANK|%LIST|TL

Ta da...

Other method:
FILE: Ability and Abilitycategory, location homebrew folder ideal, but can be hacked onto another file.

Ability:
Homebrew Rule ~ Add two background skills
    CATEGORY:Special Ability
    TYPE:Homebrew Rule
    CHOOSE:SKILLS|List|Of|Skills|Here|Or|The|TYPE=Here
    MULT:YES
    STACK:NO
    SELECT:2
    BONUS:SKILLRANK|%LIST|TL
    COST:0

Abilitycategory:
ABILITYCATEGORY:Homebrew Rules
    CATEGORY:Special Ability
    TYPE:Homebrew Rule
    DISPLAYLOCATION:Misc
    VISIBLE:YES
    EDITABLE:YES
    EDITPOOL:NO

Cheers,
Andrew

On 9/26/2015 4:06 PM, nevikj@gmail.com [pcgen] wrote:

I would like to add 2 'background skills' to my homebrew. These would be two skills you pick at 1st level that automatically get a rank at each level.

Which file should I make this change to?

How do I set this up?

Thanks in advance for any help.

James

PS Kudos on v6.05.04 ! It's been working real good for me. Might be good to make a reminder/suggestion to Linux users to run dos2unix on pcgen.sh, though.

J