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ShadowChemosh
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Old March 7th, 2013, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Harris View Post
I was unclear.

I have created (for example) a heavy wooden shield that is +4 instead of +2.

I have used the *preclude tab to hide it when my source is selected.
Just to make sure we are on the same page. You used the *Preclude tab to set your House Rules Source and the "CORE" ID of the Heavy Wooden Shield. The above makes it sound the opposite.

The *Preclude hides the Thing when the source is NOT checked. The opposite of how the sources normally work. So in this case you would have "4 Shield" IDs on the *Preclude Tab, more if you have UE, but its only the CORE shields that are listed on the *Preclude tab. When "House Rules" is marked the 4-6 shields you have on the *Preclude tab then get removed.

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Originally Posted by Matt Harris View Post
An Absorbing Shield, however, doesn't. It is at +1 Heavy Steel Shield. When I select it with my house rule file unselected, it gives +3 AC. If my House Rule file is selected it gives +1.

If I do all six shields in my house rules, there are about 30 custom shields that I will need to redo. 17 are based upon heavy steel shields alone.
Your new shields, all 30 of them, are located on the "Armor" tab and are setup with your rules. Then these 30 are all source marked (ie the "Source" blue button) to your "House Rules" source so that only when marked do the 30 show up.

And boom your shields show up when the source is marked and the CORE shields are hidden. When House Rules source is turned off the CORE shields display and your custom shields do not.

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