Bonus Feats Question

[Culhwch]

Let's say I want to create a Special that gives the hero a bonus feat of Spell Focus (enchantment). I've got the feat bootstrapped in, but I need a way to force the choice to be enchantment. Is there an easy way to do that? I did a search in the existing files, but couldn't find anything similar.

Thanks.

[Colen]

Culhwch wrote:
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> Let's say I want to create a Special that gives the hero a bonus feat of
> Spell Focus (enchantment). I've got the feat bootstrapped in, but I need
> a way to force the choice to be enchantment. Is there an easy way to do
> that? I did a search in the existing files, but couldn't find anything
> similar.


There's no way to force the user to take Enchantment. The easiest way to
do this would be to create a new feat that did the following:

var result as number
result = hero.child[ssEnchant].assign[Broadcast.SpellFocus]

That should have the same effect as adding the Spell Focus: Enchantment
feat.


Hope this helps,


--
Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
http://www.wolflair.com/

[rob]

At 06:00 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote:

> Let's say I want to create a Special that gives the hero a bonus feat of
> Spell Focus (enchantment). I've got the feat bootstrapped in, but I need
> a way to force the choice to be enchantment. Is there an easy way to do
> that? I did a search in the existing files, but couldn't find anything
> similar.

Another approach would be to write an eval rule that verifies the user has the Spell Focus (Enchantment) ability by checking for the corresponding tag. While this wouldn't force the user to select Enchantment, it would flag an error if the user picked anything OTHER than Enchantment, which is 99% of the way to a solution.

Colen and I have discussed providing a way to explicitly assign an otherwise user-selectable feat (like Spell Focus, Weapon Focus, etc.). We've got some ideas for how to solve it, so this will hopefully not be a minor limitation for much longer...

-Rob

[Mathias]

Has this been accomplished? I can't find it in the help or FAQ.

Originally Posted by rob

At 06:00 PM 4/2/2007, you wrote:

Colen and I have discussed providing a way to explicitly assign an otherwise user-selectable feat (like Spell Focus, Weapon Focus, etc.). We've got some ideas for how to solve it, so this will hopefully not be a minor limitation for much longer...

-Rob