Occultist: Necromancy - Soulbound Puppet Focus Power
Now that I'm in the correct forum:
I'm building a Necroccultist for an upcoming 1e game and one of my implement powers is the "Soulbound Puppet". This gives me the option of using a skull (the Raven skull I'm using as my implement, in this particular case) from an appropriate creature to gain a familiar for 10 min / level using my occultist level as my wiz level. There's no "In play" option to toggle this on or off, so I've been messing with the editor to try to make an "adjustment" that can be turned on. Here's what I've gotten, using other Familiar entries (Feats, etc) as guidelines, but I cannot get it to work. Code:
<thing id="pOccultistFamilia" name="Occultist: Familiar" description="As a full-round action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to create a soulbound puppet from a bone, doll, or skull. If you use a bone or a skull, your power builds a Tiny or Small flesh puppet around it that vaguely resembles the original creature from which the bones were taken. If the implement is a doll, the doll comes to life. Treat this as a familiar, using your occultist level as your wizard level to determine its powers and abilities. By using a bone or skull from the appropriate creature or a doll shaped like that creature, you can select any of the familiar choices available to a wizard. You can instead use a humanoid bone, doll, or skull, to give the puppet the base statistics of a homunculus, but without a fly speed or the poison bite or telepathic link abilities. No matter the form, this creature is a construct with an alignment matching your own. You can have no more than one soulbound puppet active at any given time.\n\nThe soulbound puppet remains animated for 10 minutes per occultist level you possess." compset="InPlay"> cWizFam and cMagAcrFam do not grant a familiar, and generate this error when the adjustment is added: Quote:
cArcFMult will add a familiar but it does not grant any of the benefits (Alertness at level 1, bonus to skill/save/etc) that the Familiar is supposed to grant. It also generates a warning of Quote:
cArcFamili gives the same error as cWizFam. fFamilBond will add the Familiar Bond feat but this isn't what it should be. Besides, the feat calls out you don't get any of the actual Familiar benefits. cfgFamBond will grant the benefits of Familiar Bond without the feat, and let you pick a Familiar, but the feat, and therefore the familiar, do not grant any benefits. I tried looking at the Tumor Familiar discorvery/Tattoo Familiar Bloodline power, etc, and I found these: Code:
<bootstrap thing="cArcFTouch"> Quote:
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Added note: I already use the community pack put out by ShadowChemosh, there is no adjustment to add a Familiar there. There's one for Animal Companions, however, but that's not the same thing.
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Here's a working adjustment to add an arcane familiar, although it isn't finished and hasn't been tested much.
Herolab's built-in arcane familiar stuff is implemented as level dependent abilities, and which expect to be bootstrapped from a configurable or class helper to work properly. Remember that you need to check the boxes for "arms reach" and/or "within a mile" in the in-play tab in order for any benefits from a familiar to show up on the hero. Code:
<thing id="cfgCustomFamiliar" name="Custom Familiar" description="This is a helper object for configuring the familiar." compset="Configure" uniqueness="unique"> |
Wow! Thanks!! For my purposes it appears to be working and even recognizes levels properly on a Gestalt character. I tried the bootstraps as noted above but it gave errors. Maybe being a separate "thing" for those bootstraps is part of it? But as I said, this coding works, tyvm!
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