Bugs, news and stuff: Re: [pcgen] House Rules Question vs PCGen

Monday, May 11, 2015

Re: [pcgen] House Rules Question vs PCGen

Hi,

I'm surprised that nobody has replied yet.

Normally, this would be better posted on listfilehelp since you're asking a "how to code this" question. But for simplicity sake:

#1 - You lack a definition of "Luck". Just something that says Luck, or grants something? SAB:Luck
#2 - BONUS:HP|CURRENTMAX|10
#3 - Uh, okay, make a list of the current available classes you want in a template file, give them TYPE:FavoredClass, manually take an ability with CHOOSE:TEMPLATE|TYPE=FavoredClass    TEMPLATE:%LIST
Each class should be something like this:

Bard <> TYPE:FavoredClass <> FAVOREDCLASS:Bard

Now, to make the houserule easy to access:
One ability with each of the three choice names -
Houserule - Grant Luck    TYPE:GMBob
Houserule - Grant +10 HP    TYPE:GMBob
Houserule - Grant 2nd Favored Class    TYPE:GMBob

Not exactly sure how you'd like to access it though. Did you want a personal pool or just add it to the misc rule selections? Too many methods, and I really don't have much free time to explain them all.

Based on what you've said, I'd personally just do this:

#Ability File:
Use Alternative Houserule by GM "What's his name"
    CATEGORY:Internal
    TYPE:OptionalRules
    BONUS:ABILITYPOOL|GM Bob Choice|1

#Abilitycategory file:
ABILITYCATEGORY:GM Bob Choice            VISIBLE:YES        EDITABLE:YES    EDITPOOL:YES                    CATEGORY:Internal                    TYPE:GMBob                                                                            DISPLAYLOCATION:Misc

Make your selection, which grants the optional rule.

As you can see, not too complex. If you need more assistance, please do post a follow-up on the correct yahoo group.

Thanks and cheers,
Andrew

On 5/11/2015 1:55 AM, travellerfan@rochester.rr.com [pcgen] wrote:

Hi people,

If it seems like I'm only here when I need your help - well you're partially right. It's mainly because I get great help and insight from all of you that it "seems" like I'm not here.

Anyway....

The GM for our group has a few House Rules for the Pathfinder campaign he is currently running. He does use PCGen but not extensively. One of his house rules consists of a list of three (3) choices, choose one during character creation:

Luck

+10 hit points

2nd Favored Class

How does one go about accomplishing this with PCGen? For that matter, how do you enter any custom material into PCGen? Other than a full data sheet I mean. I don't have a clue on that one either. Let's tackle the littlt one first.

As always, any help and/or ideas are appreciated,

Chuck