Bugs, news and stuff: Re: [pcgen] Pathfinder - 6.05.03

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Re: [pcgen] Pathfinder - 6.05.03 - Eldritch Scion

Hi,

Spontaneous vs. Memorization.

The difference between a Caster that memorizes versus one that is
spontaneous is controlled by two TAGS:
MEMORIZE & KNOWN. Once set, a MEMORIZE cannot be changed. Memorize
determines whether to allow you to add more spells than is allowed.

I would point out that knowing all the cantrips is not a factor of
memorization nor spontaneous. That is normally a factor for the base
class. Sadly, spell manipulation is by FAR the hardest to manage outside
of the normal channels of a class.

I am hopeful that with the advent of the new formula system that such
"flags" will be accessible to the data team. As such, any manipulation
is going to be hacks.

Onto the next portion, the regular magus is granted all the 0th level
spells. This is a class tag, and is one of those "doesn't have
flexibility" tags. It's only usable on the class, and it either is
present and works, or not. To replace that functionality, would require
me removing this insanely easily KNOWNSPELLS:LEVEL=0 with a bunch of
"SPELLKNOWN:CLASS|Magus=0|x,x,x,x,x,x|PREVAREQ:AllowAllKnownLevelZero,0
for each source book that has a level 0 Magus spell.

This is a data feature request, since strictly speaking, I'm going to
have a lot of rebuilding to implement this archetype feature.

Open a data feature in jira - link below.

Cheers,
Andrew

On 8/9/2015 11:22 AM, Darth Borehd darth.borehd@gmail.com [pcgen] wrote:
> Eldritch Scion archetype should make the magus a spontaneous caster
> who does not know all the cantrips but does not.