Version 6.20 of the Pathfinder files is now available

[Mathias]

Version 6.20 of the Pathfinder files for Hero Lab is now available from the automatic updates mechanism within Hero Lab.

This update adds Player's Companion: Varisia, Birthplace of Legends as a free update for all those who have the Player's Companion: Golarion #3 bundle. This bundle is available for $4.99, and already contains Blood of Fiends and Blood of Angels.

For the Adventure Path line, this update adds the player's guide for the new Shattered Star adventure path, along with player content from issues #60 and #61.

This version also updates the Pathfinder Society rules to the new version 4.2.

And, we've got a number of other improvements - while printing, check out the new "Abilities & Gear Description Appendix" printout option. For your Monks, take a look at their unarmed strike and their monk weapons - the stats for that weapon used in a flurry of blows are now displayed along with the normal attack stats for that weapon. We've also improved some of the back-end code in a way that improves the evaluation speed for a character portfolio.

Here's the complete change list (this is copied from Help menu...Pathfinder Roleplaying Game FAQ within the program):

New Releases!

• Content from Varisia, Birthplace of Legends has been added to the existing Player's Companion Golarion #3 package.

Enhancements & Changes

• Added a new printout option - "Abilities & Gear Description Appendix".
• Implemented the Eldritch Heritage feat tree.
• Implemented the Synthesist Archetype.
• Individual weapons now display their flurry attack bonuses if they are available to be used in a flurry of blows.
• Updated the Pathfinder Society rules to version 4.2
• Added player content from Pathfinder #60 "From Hell's Heart", rounding out the Skull and Shackles adventure path. Also added the content from Pathfinder #61 "Shards of Sin", to kick off the new adventure path!
• Optimized the evaluation sequence of weapons - characters should now evaluate 25-50% faster than before, making Hero Lab much more responsive.
• Updated the files to include changes from Bestiary 2's 7/16/12 errata.
• Instead of defaulting to "Male", the gender selection on the Personal tab now defaults to blank, prompting the user to select a gender.
• Made several fixes to the statblock, to bring it closer to the official statblock.
• Until you have selected a class (or added a race that has racial HD), everything but the Classes table is hidden on the Classes tab, so that newer users are guided to that as the first thing they should do.
• On the printout and statblock, unarmed strikes are no longer shown unless the character has the Improved Unarmed Strike feat. A new option, "Show Unarmed (in weapons)" has been added to the Output Options section of the Configure Hero Settings so that other characters have the option of including it.

Bug Fixes

• The "Don't Restrict Companion Race" option in the configure hero settings no longer allows normal Bestiary races to be selected as an animal companion or eidolon (it was not functioning as intended for companions and eidolons). Instead, it functions by removing class-based restrictions on the animal companions allowed to a character. For example, a Ranger or a Druid (Snake Shaman) could select from the same list of companions as a normal Druid. The function of this ability has not been changed for Arcane Familiars - this option still allows your Wizard to select a human or a great wyrm dragon as their familiar.
• The Sorcerer's Orc Bloodline's Strength of the Beast ability was adding too high a strength bonus.
• The Agathion, Cetaceal stock portfolio was missing the +1 shocking burst shortspear.
• The Agathion, Cetaceal/Draconal race was missing Regeneration.
• The Agathion, Leonal race was missing Acrobatics as a class skill.
• The Shield Archon was missing it's +4 natural armor bonus to AC.
• The Athach had 2 extra ranks of Climb, and the stock portfolio had it equipping a non-proficient heavy shield, affecting ACP and attack bonuses.
• Most or all of the monsters from Bestiary 2 with a Summon ability were missing charges for that ability.
• The Purrodaemon bootstrapped 2 versions of the same Summon ability.
• The Dinosaur, Allosaurus was missing its claw attacks.
• The Jellyfish Swarm was not adding +16 racial bonus to stealth.
• The Magma Ooze was missing Grab and Split.
• The Neh-Thalggu had incorrect default skills.
• The Nightshade, Nightcrawler was missing the poison.
• The Oread stock portfolio needed a composite longbow with a +2 Str bonus.
• The Qlippoth, Thulgaunt was missing its +16 bonus to CMD vs Trip.
• The Sard needed to switch the Thorns weapon over to an Other Ranged Natural attack, since the bootstrapped weapon was showing iterative attacks.
• The Infernal Bastard trait was not removing the tiefling race's Darkness spell like ability.
• The Stock portfolio for Undine was missing its feat.
• The Stock portfolios for Imperial Dragons were missing their racial spells.
• Int Boosting items were not correctly assigning theis skill ranks.
• The Noqual material was not applying a Spell Failure chance to Divine casters.
• Materials were not showing their costs when added to a custom magic weapon.
• Specific firearms were not inheriting the Misfire, Capacity, and Explosion Radius from their base weapons.
• Gear that could be built with multiple craft skills was not building the text correctly for the description.
• The Hand of Glory was allowing the wearer to equip an unlimited number of rings, instead of just +1.
• Racial Equipment now shows what race it requires when selecting it at 1st level.
• Pathfinder Society characters are now required to select two traits.

Data File Authoring

• In the custom output format, for a hero with no gender, the "gender" attribute is now empty, instead of containing "No Gender". This is because values with spaces in them cannot be used in a DTD file.
• The iWeight field (on magic item powers) can now be manipulated by scripts.
• Added the Helper.CustomWgt and Helper.CustomCost tags for use with Gear. Unlike Helper.Custom (which replaces name, cost, and weight with user editable fields), each of the two new tags only replaces their own focus. This is used for the some items in Ultimate Equipment (the Holy Text, for example).
• Racial Custom Abilities can now replace racial abilities, in a similar manner to ARTs.
• Added the AbilFunc tag group, which is intended to group similar generic abilities together for some of the upcoming Ultimate Equipment changes. For example, generic abilities with the AbilFunc.ItemPwHelp tag are bootstrapped by item powers, shadow themselved onto the hero, and show on the specials tab when their parent weapon is equipped.
• The way Aasimar/Tiefling Heritages work has been revamped. Taking a heritage substitutes it's own spell like ability for the one normally possessed by the race, meaning that a user can still take ARTs or variant abilities that replace the spell like ability (and they will target the heritage Sp ability instead). As part of this, racial custom abilities now can replace things in a similar manner to Alternate Racial Traits, and the Aasimar variant abilities were moved from ARTs to become Racial Custom abilities.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Mathias

• Individual weapons now display their flurry attack bonuses if they are

Please note everyone that is running Risners Flurry of Blows addon. You MUST remove the .user file to get this new feature to function.

How To Remove
Start HL and Pathfinder and then go to "Tools->Explore Folders->Game System Data Folder". Then in the new window find either of the following files: PFRPG_Monk_FoB_CORE.user OR PFRPG_Monk_FoB.user and delete the file.

Then close down HL and restart it. When you open up your monk character now HL will display a Flurry section of information. Yes this even works for Zen Archers.

[JCServant]

Howdy. I'm really enjoying the new "Abilities & Gear Description" print out. Question...is there a way to have it include complete descriptions for weapons and armor as part of that? Mine is only showing gear and magic items...