New Spells Question

[Culhwch]

I'm adding some spells, and noticed that in the Spell Class dropdown assassin isn't listed. When I did "Add New Tag" and typed assassin, it brings me to a selection labeled "~ obsolete ~". There's lots of "~ obsolete ~" after Wizard. If I don't mess with the "~ obsolete ~" chosen when I type assassin for the new tag, assassin is in the XML file that's created, and the spell shows up as a choice.

Just wondering what all those "~ obsolete ~" things are after Wizard, and why assassin is one of them.

Thanks.

[rob]

At 11:09 PM 7/13/2007, you wrote:

I'm adding some spells, and noticed that in the Spell Class dropdown assassin isn't listed. When I did "Add New Tag" and typed assassin, it brings me to a selection labeled "~ obsolete ~". There's lots of "~ obsolete ~" after Wizard. If I don't mess with the "~ obsolete ~" chosen when I type assassin for the new tag, assassin is in the XML file that's created, and the spell shows up as a choice.

Just wondering what all those "~ obsolete ~" things are after Wizard, and why assassin is one of them.

As long as you don't touch any of the "obsolete" entries, you'll be fine. The d20 files have evolved quite a bit since we launched HL, and numerous things are now being done differently in order to make them simpler and more easily automated. However, we have to keep around all of the old ways of doing stuff so that user-created data files that use the old way continue working. When we change how mechanisms are handled, the tags and related objects are marked "obsolete" so that users won't continue using them and instead switch to the new ways.

So the "obsolete" tags are still present because they may still be needed by someone. However, you should ignore them and utilize the new mechanisms for integrating material, just as it sounds like you successfully did. :-)

I'll ask Colen to make sure there's a note about "obsolete" stuff in the d20 data file documentation.