Modifying / Appending to a spell description

[bodrin]

Hi,

As the title suggest I'm attempting to Modify / Append the Ice Storm spell description.

All at Render 10000

The #appenddesc macro here

~ Lets add to our modified Ice Storm spell information for reference

   #appenddesc[spIceSto3], "Three times per  day, the wearer of the crown can call down a storm of razor sharp bone  shards. Similar to {i}ice storm{/i} with the following differences.

These  shards deal 5d6 points of slashing damage to all creatures in a  10-foot-radius burst and each creature bleeds on its turn for an  additional 1d6 points of damage (this bleed can be healed or stopped as  normal). 

Creatures in the area can attempt a DC 16 Reflex save to halve the damage and negate the bleed."]

throws an error message and the script below also throws an error message.

~ Lets add to our modified Ice Storm spell information for reference

    perform state.thing[spIceSto3].amendthing[description,"Three times per day, the wearer of the crown can call down a storm of razor sharp bone shards. Similar to {i}ice storm{/i} with the following differences.

These shards deal 5d6 points of slashing damage to all creatures in a 10-foot-radius burst and each creature bleeds on its turn for an additional 1d6 points of damage (this bleed can be healed or stopped as normal). 

Creatures in the area can attempt a DC 16 Reflex save to halve the damage and negate the bleed."]

Any ideas on achieving this?

[AndrewD2]

I think you have an extra bracket in there, it should be:

#appendesc[spIceSto3, "blahblahblah"]

[bodrin]

Nope, but worth trying.

Hero Lab was forced to stop compilation after the following errors were detected:

Syntax error in 'eval' script for Thing 'ioB0MFSCBo' (Eval Script '#1') on line 3
-> Invalid macro reference encountered in script

also tried

~ Lets add to our modified Ice Storm spell information for reference     

perform state.thing[spIceSto3.amendthing[description,"Three times per day, the wearer of the crown can call down a storm of razor sharp bone shards. Similar to {i}ice storm{/i} with the following differences.  These shards deal 5d6 points of slashing damage to all creatures in a 10-foot-radius burst and each creature bleeds on its turn for an additional 1d6 points of damage (this bleed can be healed or stopped as normal).   Creatures in the area can attempt a DC 16 Reflex save to halve the damage and negate the bleed."]

which resulted in

Hero Lab was forced to stop compilation after the following errors were detected:

Syntax error in 'eval' script for Thing 'ioB0MFSCBo' (Eval Script '#1') on line 3
-> Invalid thing transition syntax used

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by bodrin

~ Lets add to our modified Ice Storm spell information for reference     

perform state.thing[spIceSto3.amendthing[description,"Three times per day, the wearer of the crown can call down a storm of razor sharp bone shards. Similar to {i}ice storm{/i} with the following differences.  These shards deal 5d6 points of slashing damage to all creatures in a 10-foot-radius burst and each creature bleeds on its turn for an additional 1d6 points of damage (this bleed can be healed or stopped as normal).   Creatures in the area can attempt a DC 16 Reflex save to halve the damage and negate the bleed."]

This script is not formatted correctly as your missing ].

~ Lets add to our modified Ice Storm spell information for reference     

perform state.thing[spIceSto3].amendthing[description,"Three times per day, the wearer of the crown can call down a storm of razor sharp bone shards. Similar to {i}ice storm{/i} with the following differences.  These shards deal 5d6 points of slashing damage to all creatures in a 10-foot-radius burst and each creature bleeds on its turn for an additional 1d6 points of damage (this bleed can be healed or stopped as normal).   Creatures in the area can attempt a DC 16 Reflex save to halve the damage and negate the bleed."]

Note: if your not using the "macro" version you are going to replace the whole spell description instead of appending to it.

[ShadowChemosh]

Another note is that BaseSpell component has a field called "DescAppend" that will append any text placed into it on to the spell description. This is very nice if you are placing a note onto "many" spells as its less overhead then affecting Things using amendthing.

Just an FYI as I have such a thing setup in my houserules file. Here is an example in use:
Timing: Final/50000

      ~ Finished if not a Arcane or Divine caster
      doneif (hero.tagis[Hero.Caster] <> 1)    
      
      ~ Give damage CL text on to all spells on character
      foreach pick in hero from BaseSpell
        eachpick.field[DescAppend].text &= "{b}Shadow d20:{/b} If this spell does hit point damage it gains a bonus equal to your caster level (" & signed(eachpick.field[sCL].value) & ")."  
      nexteach

[AndrewD2]

If you have line breaks in your #appenddesc[] I think you have code the line breaks with \n

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by AndrewD2

If you have line breaks in your #appenddesc[] I think you have code the line breaks with \n

Just a note {BR} also works so you will see that in some of LW scripts. Honestly they both seem to work but when I asked for d20 stuff Colen said the current standard is to use {BR} instead of \n.

[AndrewD2]

Ah yeah, brain wasn't remembering what type of bracket/brace to use so I just went with the \n

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by AndrewD2

Ah yeah, brain wasn't remembering what type of bracket/brace to use so I just went with the \n

Please we both know you are just posting to up your "Post Count".

[Aaron]

Really? I thought backslash n was the standard, but as both work I guess it doesn't matter.