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Adjust Monk Unarmed Damage

I am working on trying to create the Shadow Monk hybrid class from the Pathfinder Community and I can't seem to figure out how to change the Monk Unarmed damage. I updated the written text, but not the actual damage done by the PC.

Any assistance would be much appreciated!

How are you going about it? Is this an archetype or something else? Are you replacing the Unarmed Strike monk ability with a new version or trying to modify the existing one?

I'm just trying to modify the existing one. Just need to change the damage to slightly lower numbers. I am more than willing to create a new one as well. Let's call it Shadow Monk Unarmed Strike.

If you're trying to modify the existing one then there are a couple ways to go about it. You could add or subtract effective levels (by manipulating the xEffectLev field on the class special). If its not a level adjustment but some different rate of advancement then you could copy the base ability, modify its scripts and save a new version (then use Replaces Thing ID to replace the old with the new). Replace Thing ID does have the drawback of not getting any subsequent changes we make to the base version of the ability. A third way to handle it would be to do the copy and mod, but attach the new version to an archetype, if this is a mod of base monk. Keep in mind I have no clue what "the Shadow Monk hybrid class from the Pathfinder Community" means.

I think it would be helpful if you posted how your version's text goes, and how you need things to differ from what the normal unarmed strike does.

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Originally Posted by Aaron (Post 272426)

Keep in mind I have no clue what "the Shadow Monk hybrid class from the Pathfinder Community" means.

Don’t feel bad as I don’t know what this means either. :) :p

I'm pretty sure that it's this Shadow Monk.

charlieluce, you got it! Thanks. I should have posted the link first....

So, how's it going? Did you try one or more of the suggestions above? Did they work, or do you need more help?

I'm going to need more help. I don't know what you mean by "modify the scripts" Where is the list of damage progression by level? If I can find that, then I can probably update the ability. I found the text, but not where it actually does the damage in class abilities.

So if you make a copy of the Unarmed Strike Class special, you'll see that it bootstraps an ability called xMnkUnarm, which it then adds to the value of in this script:

PostLevel 4000

Code:

      ~ only perform the rest on the first copy

      doneif (tagis[Helper.FirstCopy] = 0)



      ~ If we're not shown, just get out now

      doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)



      ~ If we're disabled, do nothing

      doneif (tagis[Helper.SpcDisable] <> 0)



      ~Add our levels to the unarmed attack damage helper

      #value[xMnkUnarm] += field[xAllLev].value



      if (field[xAllLev].value < 4) then

        field[abText].text = "1d6"

      elseif (field[xAllLev].value < 8) then

        field[abText].text = "1d8"

      elseif (field[xAllLev].value < 12) then

        field[abText].text = "1d10"

      elseif (field[xAllLev].value < 16) then

        field[abText].text = "2d6"

      elseif (field[xAllLev].value < 20) then

        field[abText].text = "2d8"

      else

        field[abText].text = "2d10"

        endif

If you copy xMnkUnarm you'll see that it has only one script, which takes the value field and changes it into a damage tag (this is the procedure MnkWepBase), which it then applied to the unarmed weapon.

PostLevel 5000

Code:

      ~If our effective monk level is 0 or less, we don't change the damage at all

      doneif (field[abValue].value <= 0)



      ~ If we're disabled, do nothing

      doneif (tagis[Helper.SpcDisable] <> 0)



      perform assign[Helper.ShowSpec]



      ~ Get our unarmed strike pick, delete the damage tag from it, and assign

      ~ a new damage tag.



      ~ this has been modified to use the MnkWepBase routine

      ~ since that procedure puts the wMain tag on us, we will need to

      ~ push it to wUnarmed when we are done



      var level as number

      level = field[abValue].value



      call MnkWepBase



      ~ clear our wUmarmed and give it our wMain tag

      perform hero.child[wUnarmed].delete[wMain.?]

      perform hero.child[wUnarmed].pushtags[wMain.?]



      ~ set our dice damage in abText



      var dicetext as string



      call wMainText

      field[abText].text = dicetext

And here is what happens in that "MnkWepBase" procedure call

Code:

    ~ this is for setting the base damage tag for the

    ~ monk's unarmed strike ability and abilities that

    ~ gain benefits like that (for example the brawler)



    ~ INPUT

    ~ level is our level



    ~ we assuming that the wielder is medium, because

    ~ that is what wMain tags assume. Damage dice are then adjusted up or down

    ~ appropriately based on size.



    var level as number



    if (level >= 20) then

      ~ Medium folks get 2d10 at this level.

      perform assign[wMain.2d10]

    elseif (level >= 16) then

      ~ Medium folks get 2d8 at this level.

      perform assign[wMain.2d8]

    elseif (level >= 12) then

      ~ Medium folks get 2d6 at this level.

      perform assign[wMain.2d6]

    elseif (level >= 8) then

      ~ Medium folks get 1d10 at this level.

      perform assign[wMain.1d10]

    elseif (level >= 4) then

      ~ Medium folks get 1d8 at this level.

      perform assign[wMain.1d8]

    else

      ~ Medium folks get 1d6 at this level.

      perform assign[wMain.1d6]

      endif

So if you want your unarmed damage advancement for the Shadow Monk to stack level for level with other Unarmed Strikes from, for example, normal monks or brawlers, then just bootstrap cMnkUnarm to your new class.

If you want it to stack with other unarmed strikes but at some other rate (for example, 2 levels of shadow monk count as 1 level of monk for unarmed strike), then create a new class ability (for example cShMUnarm), have that bootstrap xMnkUnarm, but add a different value in the bolded section of the first script.

If it does not stack with other unarmed strikes, or if the advancement is radically different from the one followed by monks, then you should probably create a new class ability but NOT bootstrap the helper ability. Instead, copy the script from the MnkWepBase procedure into your new ability, and tweak those if/then branches to your new rate of advancement. Then do the tag replacement on wUnarmed as shown in Code section 2 above.

Hope that helps!