Custom Ability Level?
 

Would it be possible to have a level marker for custom abilities? 'Available at level X' sort of thing? Or, failing that, how would I go about doing this on my own? (It's been 6 months since I used the HL editor last...)

And now, Colen is hiding. 'My god, he's BACK!' ;)

Custom Ability Level?
 

DannyBoy2k wrote:
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> Would it be possible to have a level marker for custom abilities?
> 'Available at level X' sort of thing? Or, failing that, how would I go
> about doing this on my own? (It's been 6 months since I used the HL
> editor last...)
>
> And now, Colen is hiding. 'My god, he's BACK!' Wink


aaaaahhhhhhhh! I read your email and immediately left for a weekend in
Houston, I was so terrified. ;)


I'm not sure what you mean by a 'level marker' for custom abilities -
you mean restricting them so they can only be used at a certain level?
Just define a "Pre-req" for the ability, such as:

~ Only valid if we have at least 5 Cleric levels
@valid = 0
if (hero.tagcount[Classes.Cleric] >= 5) then
@valid = 1
endif


Unfortunately there's currently a bug that means the ability won't be
disabled properly in the list. Once we fix that in a future edition,
you'll be good to go.


Hope this helps,

--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development

Whoa. Now, that is impressive...and a bit worrying. Anyhows, that is pretty much what I meant. Sorta like with spells. 'spell level' and a meny. Though I'm willing to bet this works nicely too. As soon as you work that bug out, of course. ;) Working in the Tome of Battle, 9 Swords classes, this will be very handy.

But, something else appears. Is there any way to note a special type of custom ability? There are several schools, sort of like magical schools, in the book. And some maneuvers require you to have at least X other maneuvers in the same school?

I fixed the bug, so it'll be sorted in the next version of HL. :)

For Tome of Battle stuff, I believe that everything can be modelled as Psionic Powers, not custom abilities. Stances would be custom abilities, but maneuvers work just like powers, IIRC.

Errr....well, ok. I'll bite. How in the wide wide world of d20 would I do that?!

Custom Ability Level?
 

DannyBoy2k wrote:
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> Errr....well, ok. I'll bite. How in the wide wide world of d20 would I
> do that?!


From what I remember from Tome of Battle, you can map them like so:

Stances = Custom abilities

You start the game with a number of stances, and you get more as you
increase in level. So your stances work just like custom abilities.

Maneuvers = Psionic Powers

Each class has its own list of maneuvers, and you can use a certain
number of maneuvers per encounter (IIRC). The number of maneuvers you
get is the number of power points the class gets per level. So if the
class got 2 maneuvers per encounter at level 1, and 3 at level 2, it
would have 2 PP at level 1, and 3 PP at level 2.

Your hero can only know a certain number of maneuvers, so that's how
many powers he knows at each level. If the class gets 5 maneuvers at
level 1 and 6 at level 2, he gets 5 powers known at level 1, and 6 at
level 2.

Finally, each class has its own list of maneuvers. So the maneuvers
would be added as psionic powers.


Does that help?


--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development