Shield Focus from Mercenaries book

DwarvenWiz · July 11th, 2015, 01:11 PM

Trying to code this feat and running into issues around how to reduce the AC penalty for shields by 1. Could anyone help this novice? I appreciate it!

+1 Dodge bonus to AC while carrying a shield.

AC penalty for the shield is reduced by 1 to no less than zero.

Sendric · July 13th, 2015, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DwarvenWiz

Trying to code this feat and running into issues around how to reduce the AC penalty for shields by 1. Could anyone help this novice? I appreciate it!

+1 Dodge bonus to AC while carrying a shield.

AC penalty for the shield is reduced by 1 to no less than zero.

When a shield is equipped, the hero is given the tag "Hero.EquipShld". The feat can have a script on it that searches for this tag, and if present grants a +1 dodge bonus to AC:

Code:

if (hero.tagis[Hero.EquipShld] <> 0) then
 #applybonus[Dodge,hero.child[ArmorClass],1]
endif

I'm not sure at what point the tag is applied, so I'd set the timing to something like Post-Levels/10000 to start with and see if it works.

For the second part, I'm assuming you mean armor check penalty. For that, you'll need a foreach loop to look at all shields on the hero and reduce the penalty by 1. For this script, I'll assume the ability stacks with the reduction from the item being masterwork:

Code:

foreach pick in hero from BaseArmor where "EquipType.Shield"
 eachpick.field[mArmorChk].value = maximum(0,eachpick.field[mArmorChk].value-1)
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Not sure on the timing. Could try same as above. I haven't tested these scripts, but they should work for you. Let me know if you have any trouble.

Aaron · July 22nd, 2015, 11:22 AM

One point, I believe dodge bonuses do stack with themselves, so you wouldn't want to use the #applybonus macro here (that is for non stacking, use the highest type bonuses).

Sendric · July 23rd, 2015, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaron

One point, I believe dodge bonuses do stack with themselves, so you wouldn't want to use the #applybonus macro here (that is for non stacking, use the highest type bonuses).

That's a good point. I always forget about that. Thanks. In that case, you could change the code to this:

Code:

if (hero.tagis[Hero.EquipShld] <> 0) then
 hero.child[ArmorClass].field[tACDodge].value += 1
endif

DwarvenWiz Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 23 July 11th, 2015, 01:11 PM	Trying to code this feat and running into issues around how to reduce the AC penalty for shields by 1. Could anyone help this novice? I appreciate it! +1 Dodge bonus to AC while carrying a shield. AC penalty for the shield is reduced by 1 to no less than zero.
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Aaron Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 6,793 July 22nd, 2015, 11:22 AM	One point, I believe dodge bonuses do stack with themselves, so you wouldn't want to use the #applybonus macro here (that is for non stacking, use the highest type bonuses).
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