Making Edges cost two advances?

[dartnet]

Super power skills already do that.

[rob]

OK, the imminent update will include the ability to charge two slots for edges and have a race (or other mechanism) cause an attribute to cost two slots.

[rob]

To have a racial ability cause an attribute to cost two slots, you'll need to write a one-line script, and the script must occur *before* the Effects phase. For example, let's assume we have a "Scrawny" racial ability that causes Strength to cost two slots. The resulting racial ability definition might look like the following:

<thing
  id="abScrawny"
  name="Scrawny"
  compset="RaceAbil"
  isunique="yes"
  description="blah blah blah">
  <eval index="1" phase="Setup" priority="5000"><![CDATA[
    hero.child[attrStr].field[trtCost].value = 2
    ]]></eval>
  </thing>

That's all there is to it. Give a holler if you run into any problems putting this stuff to work.

[Gumbytie]

Okay, since I am working on Ragnarok rules, I finally realized I needed to address this very problem. Arcane Backgrounds cost two slots. So I read through this thread and I see Rob mentions a fix for this. So the question is, how do we accomplish this? I looked around the editor, there isn't a nice field to put in Slot Cost for an edge.

I tried an Eval Script:

perform #resspent[resEdge,+,field[edgCost].value += 2

That gave me errors. So, how do we double the slot cost for an Edge?

[CapedCrusader]

Try this: (It would charge an extra point)

perform #resspent[resEdge,+,1,"Name of Edge"]

But the better way would be: (This would make it cost one more)

field[edgCost].value += 1

[rob]

Both of the suggestions by CapedCrusader will work nicely. However, the key limitation of both those suggestions is that the edge needs to be fixed up via a script, which means you need to worry about timing. You can also change the basic cost directly on the *thing* definition via the Editor.

To do this, bring up your edge in the Editor. At the top right, click on the Fields button. Click the button to add a new field to the list. Enter the field id of "edgCost" and a value of "2", then click the OK button at the bottom. Now save your edge and test it. This should give it a cost of 2 slots.

Hope this helps....

[Gumbytie]

Thanks Rob, that did it.

And thanks to CapedCrusader as well. That would also work.

I am seeing the end to my Ragnarok file finally