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Setting "No Power Points"

I have never though about Power Point Cost, with or without "No Power Points."

Lankhmar setting uses No Power Points.

There is an edge Strong Caster:

Quote:

The character is adept at channeling raw magical essence. A character with this Edge reduces the initial Casting Modifier of all spells by 1, to a minimum of zero. For instance, a spell with a Casting Modifier of -2 only inflicts a -1 penalty to this mage.

I thought, easy enough. So I tried two versions of code and each gave the same error.

Code:

herofield[powPrtPts].value -= 1

Error: Attempt to access text-based field 'powPrtPts' as value.

Code:

herofield[powPoints].value -= 1

Error: Attempt to access text-based field 'powPoints' as value.

Hmm, so the Power Point Cost we assign to spells in the editor is text? Is it possible to modify the cost to make the above edge work within HeroLab?

Try this:
herofield[powPoints].text -= 1
It's just stored in a text field rather than a number field is all. You can still do math with it. You just have to be a little more careful. And since you're deep into this, here's the code to determine casting mods so you can see why:

Code:

    var castingmod as string

    var castingno1 as number

    var castingno2 as number

    var length1 as number

    var lengthall as number

    var start2 as number

    var length2 as number

    var rawnumber1 as number

    var rawnumber2 as number

    var iteminfo as string

    var divisor as number

    iteminfo = ""

    divisor = herofield[acCastDiv].value



if (hero.tagis[Hero.NoPowerPts] <> 0) then

      ~ #-#

      if (pos(field[powPoints].text,"-") > 0) then

        length1 = pos(field[powPoints].text,"-")

        start2 = pos(field[powPoints].text,"-") + 1

        lengthall = length(field[powPoints].text)

        length2 = lengthall - start2

        rawnumber1 = left(field[powPoints].text,length1)

        castingno1 = round(rawnumber1/herofield[acCastDiv].value,0,-1)

        rawnumber2 = right(field[powPoints].text,length2)

        castingno2 = round(rawnumber2/herofield[acCastDiv].value,0,-1)

        castingmod = "-" & castingno1 & " to -" & castingno2

      ~ #/section

      elseif (pos(lowercase(field[powPoints].text),"/section") > 0) then

        length1 = pos(lowercase(field[powPoints].text),"/section")

        rawnumber1 = left(field[powPoints].text,length1)

        castingno1 = rawnumber1

        castingmod = "-" & castingno1 & " per 2 sections"

      ~ Special

      elseif (pos(lowercase(field[powPoints].text),"special") > 0) then

        castingmod = "Special"

      ~ #/#

      elseif (pos(field[powPoints].text,"/") > 0) then

        length1 = pos(field[powPoints].text,"/")

        start2 = pos(field[powPoints].text,"/") + 1

        lengthall = length(field[powPoints].text)

        length2 = lengthall - start2

        rawnumber1 = left(field[powPoints].text,length1)

        castingno1 = round(rawnumber1/herofield[acCastDiv].value,0,-1)

        rawnumber2 = right(field[powPoints].text,length2)

        castingno2 = round(rawnumber2/herofield[acCastDiv].value,0,-1)

        castingmod = "-" & castingno1 & "/-" & castingno2

      ~ #+

      elseif (pos(field[powPoints].text,"+") > 0) then

        length1 = pos(field[powPoints].text,"+")

        rawnumber1 = left(field[powPoints].text,length1)

        castingno1 = round(rawnumber1/herofield[acCastDiv].value,0,-1)

        castingmod = "-" & castingno1 & "+"

      ~ #/Corpse

      elseif (pos(lowercase(field[powPoints].text),"/corpse") > 0) then

        length1 = pos(lowercase(field[powPoints].text),"/corpse")

        rawnumber1 = left(field[powPoints].text,length1)

        castingno1 = round(rawnumber1/herofield[acCastDiv].value,0,-1)

        castingmod = "-" & castingno1 & "/corpse"

      ~ #

      else

        castingno1 = round(field[powPoints].text/herofield[acCastDiv].value,0,-1)

        castingmod = "-" & castingno1

        endif

     iteminfo &= "Casting Modifier: " & castingmod & "{br}"

    else

      iteminfo &= "Power Points: " & field[powPoints].text & "{br}"

      endif

Dang zombies anyway LOL

Egads, that makes my eyes bleed :)

Okay so I tried out your suggestion:

Setup/10000

Code:

herofield[powPoints].text -= 1

I get a syntax error: Only derived fields can generally be modified via scripts (field 'powPoints')

So should I be wrapping something further around that text?

I don't think herofield is right in this context. It should just be field, and you should be operating at the individual Power level.

It doesn't like

Code:

field[powPoints].text -= 1

Same error code.

By individual power level, this gets applied to every power by hand? I got lost on that part.

This is an Edge that applies the -1 (-2 for Improved version) to all spells known by the hero.

Do I have to do some sort of loop through every spell a hero has that acquires this edge? Not sure how to do that off the top of my head. I couldn't find good examples in the forums for affects applied to spells.

Odd. The field "powPoints" *is* a derived field.