Creating a Venomous Snake

[sozin]

Hello, I am playing around with the editor and decided I wanted to create a venomous snake ( SRD: venomous snake ).

I managed to get the basics of the critter in there, but am unable to get both the bite attack and poison attributes working. (When I create a new portfolio out of it, both the bite attack and poison attacks are missing.)

I've attached what I've created so far, and would greatly appreciate any further advice on how to complete this critter. thanks much!

[Mathias]

The way to figure out how to create monster abilities is to think of a monster that already has those abilities, and look up how it's done there. In this case, how about the Snake, Tiny Viper race?

In the editor, press the "New (Copy)" button, and choose "Snake, Tiny Viper". Now, in the bootstraps list on the top right, look at what it bootstraps. For each bootstrap, take a look at the fields and tags, and you can see how the information was entered for that race. Now you can take that information, and edit the tags of your own race in the same way. For the damage tags, open the editor manual (the help menu in the editor), then find the "Reference Information" page. At the very bottom of the page is weapons, so go there and you can find which wMain.? tag to use for the snake's 1d4 damage.