Lone Wolf Development Forums - Variant Sneak Attack

Lone Wolf Development Forums (http://forums.wolflair.com/index.php)

- HL - Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (http://forums.wolflair.com/forumdisplay.php?f=62)

- - Variant Sneak Attack (http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=68099)

Variant Sneak Attack

I'm creating a prestige class that gets a variant of Sneak Attack at even levels. It's not rendering properly on either the Class tab nor the Specials tab. I have added ability at level 2 and level 4, and given the portfolio five levels of the class. On each, it's saying "Surprise Strike +0d6."

In the Editor, I used New (Copy) for Sneak Attack (cSneakAtt). Trying to debug it, the class is currently using a copy in which the only thing that has been changed is the UniqueID, which is now cSurpStrik.

Using abSumm, I'm having it spit back the values of field[abValue].value, field[xIndex].value, and field[xCount].value. It says that all of them are zero. They're used in the Eval Scripts as:

field[abValue].value += field[xCount].value

field[listname].text = field[thingname].text & " " & signed(field[xIndex].value) & "d" & field[abValue2].value

I've tried just giving the class cSneakAtt, and that works fine. Why is it not working?

Can I see more of your surprise strike ability - like the whole set of code for it? (Open your .user file as a text file and copy out that <thing> element). xIndex and xCount should be set up automatically by the program, as long as these are class abilities bootstrapped to a class, with their levels specified by a ClSpecWhen tag. So with it failing at such a basic level, I'm not sure what's going on.

Also, from the class itself, maybe the bootstrap elements for surprise strike - I'd expect they look like this:

Code:

<bootstrap thing="cSneakAtt">

   <autotag group="ClSpecWhen"tag="3"/>

   </bootstrap>

Never mind. It's working fine today, despite my doing absolutely nothing with it, including not recompiling it.

Restarting Hero Lab fixes things occasionally.

If you've only been using Test Now! in the editor, I know I've made mistakes before where I thought I had done a test on each of the things I changed, but it turned out I had only tested 2 of the 3 things I had changed, and then spent a while figuring out why things weren't working. The Quick Reload Data Files option in the Develop menu (keyboard shortcut: ctrl-r) is handy in cases like this.