Birthright For Pathfinder for HL

[Sarelth]

ShadowChemosh, it shows up for me, just when I updated it I never got the Red Updated marker. But I have noticed Dropbox has been updating really slowly lately, so it could be something to do with that.

Quintain, There are 2 groups in my file. The first is the Birthright campaign stuff I have been working on slowly (It is a conversion of a 2nd Edition D&D campaign similar to Kingmaker).

The second set is called D20 Despot, it's me adding things from a blog I follow into HL mostly for my own use but I thought some of it might be useful to others. It is for the most part monsters, though it includes some weapon changes.

Some of the monsters include such things as Argonauts (Nautaloids), honey badgers, Melusine (Kind of a variant evil mermaid), Togbin (Turtle humanoids that hunt most other races for fun), Perinin (Rabbit humanoids that get hunted a lot by Togbin, but have learned to fight back), Spinosaurus, Chindi (Restless spirits that were not laid to rest properly), Embalming Ooze (an ooze that turns those it kills into a pickled zombie), Pickled zombie template, as well as a few other things.

It also has a feat line for polearms and a ranger style based around polearms, with additional polearms.

[Quintain]

Originally Posted by Sarelth

Quintain, There are 2 groups in my file. The first is the Birthright campaign stuff I have been working on slowly (It is a conversion of a 2nd Edition D&D campaign similar to Kingmaker).

The second set is called D20 Despot, it's me adding things from a blog I follow into HL mostly for my own use but I thought some of it might be useful to others. It is for the most part monsters, though it includes some weapon changes.

Some of the monsters include such things as Argonauts (Nautaloids), honey badgers, Melusine (Kind of a variant evil mermaid), Togbin (Turtle humanoids that hunt most other races for fun), Perinin (Rabbit humanoids that get hunted a lot by Togbin, but have learned to fight back), Spinosaurus, Chindi (Restless spirits that were not laid to rest properly), Embalming Ooze (an ooze that turns those it kills into a pickled zombie), Pickled zombie template, as well as a few other things.

It also has a feat line for polearms and a ranger style based around polearms, with additional polearms.

Ok, awesome. And as Silveras can attest, I'm very familiar with Birthright from back in the day. I'd love to see what you have done. I've been wanting to run or be in a BR campaign for a long time now. It was an awesome idea.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Sarelth

ShadowChemosh, it shows up for me, just when I updated it I never got the Red Updated marker. But I have noticed Dropbox has been updating really slowly lately, so it could be something to do with that.

In this case my question would be is the Third Party ID value you are using really "open game content"?

In the updates.xml you have a element called special="open game content". That wording of "open game content" has to match to the Third Party ID you setup/entered in the HLExport tool.

If those two values don't match "exactly" then HL does not know the installed package has been updated. HL works off of "ids" not names to match up.

[Sarelth]

ShadowChemosh, okay, so since the product is called Birthright, the 3rd party bit has to say birthright then basically, to over-simplify things. If I called it BRCS it would have to be BRCS and not like BR or something else.


Quintain, I have been using the 3rd edition and 3.5 edition conversions from Birthright.net to make the Pathfinder conversion. I am trying to keep it close to the original stuff but was thinking of adding Kingmaker bits into it also.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Sarelth

ShadowChemosh, okay, so since the product is called Birthright, the 3rd party bit has to say birthright then basically, to over-simplify things. If I called it BRCS it would have to be BRCS and not like BR or something else.

Correct....

Here is the Pathfinder Pack updates.xml:

<update name="Pathfinder Pack (v1.9)" 
  date="2017/06/18:1215" 
  size="23244" 
  description="Community created all in one download!" uniqueid="600" filetype="3" 
  platform="desktop" 
  download="http://www.shadowsoftware.net/herolab/d20pfsrd/Pack_Pathfinder.hl"   
  website="http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=202418&postcount=3" 
  companyurl="http://forums.wolflair.com/showpost.php?p=202027" priority="99" 
  major="1" minor="9" patch="" folder="pathfinder" 
  special="PathfinderPack" 
  dynamic=""/>

You can see the "Special" line is "PathfinderPack". This is the same text/value I enter into the "Third-Party ID" section when making the .hl file. This then allows HL to link up the .hl/addon installed with the updates.xml data. It then says is the version installed less than the major/minor values listed in the updates.xml. If TRUE then show the user a red ! and a message that updates are available.

[Sarelth]

Thank you, Shadow. That makes much more sense now.

[cybersavant]

i get the following error when starting HL:

line 2238 - Thing - invalid id 'rBR' for attribute 'id'

[cybersavant]

i get the following error when starting HL:

line 2238 - Thing - invalid id 'rBR' for attribute 'id'

[Sarelth]

Thanks, I will look into that and get it fixed.

[Sarelth]

I am not having any luck with this update file. It's just vexing me.

This is the error I keep getting.

The following errors were encountered while downloading updates:

Error while retrieving
https://www.dropbox.com/s/55nj6uqcsur4in3/updates.xml?dl=1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <document signature="" version="1">
 <update
     name="D20 Despot"
     date="2017/06/18:1017" size="54"
     description="D20 Despot Blog Creations"
     uniqueid="0" filetype="3" platform="any"
	 down