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Sjmarshall
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Old January 27th, 2020, 06:27 PM
I was wondering if LWD has any user guides or documentation that would help explain some of the Permanent Added Adjustments that can be done? I'm mostly curious about the "Override Variable Text" and "Value Modification". What do the various text fields and values refer to inside those options.

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Old January 29th, 2020, 08:22 AM
Bump for interest. This would be useful
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Old January 12th, 2021, 11:42 PM
Looking for this answer as well
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Old January 13th, 2021, 08:50 AM
I really wish there was more extensive documentation overall. I imagine moderation of a wiki would be too much work, but if it was feasible I imagine the community here would assist in documenting how all this works.
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Old January 14th, 2021, 06:29 AM
What documentation there is, is on the wiki:

https://info.wolflair.com/xwiki/bin/...0Lab%20Online/
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Old January 15th, 2021, 06:36 AM
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What documentation there is, is on the wiki:

https://info.wolflair.com/xwiki/bin/...0Lab%20Online/
SO to answer the original question:

"No there is not any documentation on what particular permanent adjustments do"

I think you just need to make a test character and play with them until you figure out what it changes.

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Old January 15th, 2021, 07:17 AM
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SO to answer the original question:

"No there is not any documentation on what particular permanent adjustments do"

I think you just need to make a test character and play with them until you figure out what it changes.
Oh believe me, I have done that. I have never been able to do anything with the 'change value' adjustment. I've tried adjusting spells, weapons, abilities, armors, backgrounds, themes, table selections everything. I recognize many of those are accomplished through other adjustments, my point is, I cannot figure what it is intended for.
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Old January 15th, 2021, 07:36 AM
The problem is that there are thousands of different answers, depending on the exact ability you want to modify. Here's an example - add the Power Attack feat, add Ability Value Modification, choose value 1, the power attack feat, and set it to +2 - the power attack feat is now -3/+6, because for that particular feat, value #1 stores the attack modifier (and then the damage modifier is calculated as 2x the attack modifier, or I can switch the adjustment to modifying value2 and get -1/+4).

Look for abilities that store values that are calculated within the ability - those are the ones likely to be storing their values in these fields, and in general, the order that they're displayed to the user in the name of the ability will be the order they're stored in internally. For the text modification, look for abilities that have complex strings of text generated in their names - you'll be able to overwrite those strings.
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Old January 15th, 2021, 09:34 AM
Mathias- that was an extremely helpful answer, thank you!
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