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I'm just getting started on learning the scripting for Hero Lab, so bear with my learning curve please!
I'm trying to add two custom abilities to a background. Essentially, I want more than one multiple choice abilities (such as the Hermit's Life of Seclusion). I'm trying to puzzle out what I need to do in order to add a second custom ability. Thanks! |
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You can't dynamically add an ability to a background that exists though, so if you wanted to add a second feature to the Hermit for instance, you would have to copy the Hermit and make the changes to your variant. (And name it something like "Hermit - Mountain Variant" |
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In this case, I'm not trying to dynamically add a feature to an existing background, but rather create two sets of features for a single background. I used Life of Seclusion as an example. If, for example, I wanted to create a background that both the Life of Seclusion and the Favorite Schemes features, then I would need to create two custom abilities with 6 choices in each one and assign them both to the same background. What I haven't figured out is how to add that second custom ability.
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I'm pretty sure you can't do that easily. You can have multiple features in a background, but you can't have multiple custom abilities - the mechanism expects a single custom ability where you can roll randomly on the custom abilities you've defined.
One way to simulate what you wanted to do would be creating a configurable and bootstrapping it to your background. A configurable creates a new tab to select multiple options, I would suggest looking at the existing configurables (Totem Warrior, Ritual Caster feat) and see if you can understand how those work before trying to tackle it. I don't think you would be able to replicate the random roll portion though. |
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