Shield Bash

[Kendall-DM]

@Sendric, The key to this is not to put any conditionals in this, they just don't work with armors and weapons because of the parent/child relationships of magical items (which include masterwork, unfortunately). I scripted everything so that it would work, which I thought I had added somewhere in here. I don't exclude the Shield Bash if the shield isn't equipped, though it could be possible, but I would script it rather than employing the conditionals. The conditionals are so hard to manage with all the timing issues.

You could try assigning the Helper.Shadow tag via script to the Shield Bash based on whether it is equipped or not, but that is the only way I could think to do that at the moment. If you take this route, you'll have to manage the field based on if it is magical, so with a magical (or masterwork) shield you can transition to the shield by checking the container.parent.gIsEquip.value (the parent (shield)/child (iMagxxx) relationship).

Did that help any?

[Kendall-DM]

Here is the code I was referring to, you should be able to get something out of it, mine was in the Final Phase just to make sure all timing issues with the shield had resolved. I had also forgotten to mention the gizmo part as well.

~ Work out if we're equipped or, if we're the child of a magic item,
~ if our parent is equipped.
var result as number
result = field[gIsEquip].value
if (container.ishero = 0) then
  result += container.parent.field[gIsEquip].value
endif

~ If shield bash is being used, allow for use of shield and bash.
~ Remove shield AC if equipped, unless Improved Shield Bash exists.
if (result <> 0) then
  var ac as number
  if (container.ishero = 0) then
    if (container.parent.gizmo.child[wShldBash].field[gIsEquip].value <> 0) then
      perform hero.assign[Hero.ShldOffOK]
      if (#hasfeat[fImpShdBsh] = 0) then
        ac = container.parent.field[mAC].value + container.parent.field[BonEnhance].value
      endif
    elseif (container.parent.gizmo.child[wShldBash].field[wIs2nd].value <> 0) then
      perform hero.assign[Hero.ShldOffOK]
      if (#hasfeat[fImpShdBsh] = 0) then
        ac = container.parent.field[mAC].value + container.parent.field[BonEnhance].value
      endif
    endif
  elseif (hero.child[wShldBash].field[gIsEquip].value <> 0) then
    perform hero.assign[Hero.ShldOffOK]
    if (#hasfeat[fImpShdBsh] = 0) then
      ac = field[mAC].value
    endif
  elseif (hero.child[wShldBash].field[wIs2nd].value <> 0) then
    perform hero.assign[Hero.ShldOffOK]
    if (#hasfeat[fImpShdBsh] = 0) then
      ac = field[mAC].value
    endif
  endif
  hero.child[ArmorClass].field[tACShield].value -= ac
endif

[Sendric]

Thanks, Kendall! I'll check into this as soon as I get a chance. I like the idea of assigning Helper.Shadow in a script. That seems like it should do the trick.

[Mathias]

Helper.Shadow is checked for before the phase & priority sequence starts, so there's no timing you can assign it at in order to get something to become shadowed based on a script. You need to assign it as an autotag of the bootstrap, or as part of the item's definition.

You may be able to assign tags that hide it, if it's not supposed to be shown.

[Sendric]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Helper.Shadow is checked for before the phase & priority sequence starts, so there's no timing you can assign it at in order to get something to become shadowed based on a script. You need to assign it as an autotag of the bootstrap, or as part of the item's definition.

You may be able to assign tags that hide it, if it's not supposed to be shown.

Ok, thanks. Is there a tag to hide a weapon if we don't want it shown?

[Kendall-DM]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Helper.Shadow is checked for before the phase & priority sequence starts...

Bugger, I knew there was some reason why I showed all my Shield Bashes if there were multiple shields on a hero. I must have tried this and failed to get it to work, then just resigned myself to the multiple ones showing. I would just show all the Shield Bashes and let it rest at that, unless you can find a way to hide an equipped item.

[Mathias]

Looks like there's not a good one for d20 at this time.

[Sendric]

Originally Posted by Kendall-DM

Bugger, I knew there was some reason why I showed all my Shield Bashes if there were multiple shields on a hero. I must have tried this and failed to get it to work, then just resigned myself to the multiple ones showing. I would just show all the Shield Bashes and let it rest at that, unless you can find a way to hide an equipped item.

The other option would be to modify the gIsEquip field. I tried that, but to my knowledge it requires the trustme command which is somewhat volatile. Perhaps if there is some other field on the shield that we could modify, but that wouldn't otherwise be used, that might work. I'll have to give it some thought.

[Sendric]

Ok. Took a bit of work, but I got it. I created a new tag and gave it to each shield (if you don't give it to at least one, you can't use it). This tag apparently gets transferred to the custom shield automatically, so all I need to do is delete it if the item isn't equipped:

if (container.ishero = 0) then
 if (container.parent.field[gIsEquip].value = 0) then
  perform container.delete[User.ShldBash]
 endif 
endif

I then created the following bootstrap condition:

fieldval:gIsEquip <> 0 | User.ShldBash

So, I think I'm all set with this now. It will be in the next release. Thanks for all the help, everyone!

[mirtos]

Awesome! Looking forward to it.

Hopefully it wont be too difficult to get the magical "bashing" property of shields to work with your shield bash (unless youve already done that)?