Custom Expression for Dex linked Skills

[Lawful_g]

How would you do this? I have an item that applies a bonus to one selected Dex based skill. There are no tags on the skills for thier linked attribute, and the only Item I have found that does something similar (the Circlet of Persuasion) does it through an eval to att to all Cha based skills, rather than one of the user's choice.

[Jhalad]

You would just apply the bonus directly to the skill, rather than to the attribute score bonus of that skill. As far as I know, there is no way to modify the attribute bonus to one specific skill.

I'm guessing you want to do this to allow the player to be flat-footed and loose the bonus to that skill?

[Lawful_g]

No, I just want to limit the drop down selection to skills that use Dexterity. As I have it now the drop down is all skills, and the bonus is applied only if the selected skill is dex based.

[ShadowChemosh]

For the different traits I have done I just create a Custom Expression for those specific skills. In Pathfinder their are only 7 skills that are Dex based so it goes pretty quickly.

In example:

thingid.skAcrobatics|thingid.skDisable|thingid.skEscape|thingid.skFly|thingid.skRide|thingid.skSlieght|thingid.skStealth

You will need to double check the Thingid's as I am not near HL so those are my best guess. It would be nice to have a Dex Tag similar to what their is for Knowledge and Profession skills but their is not. Or at least none that I know off.

But the above Custom Expression works and their should be very little reason for their to be future Dex skills added to the game.

Hope that helps.

[Lawful_g]

Fair enough, I always try to code for future additions, but I think I'll do that if there is no better way.

[Mathias]

There's something in the APG (can't remember exactly what) that requires the selection of a mental ability score-linked skill - I just left that at all skills and added "Note: " text to tell the user there isn't a way to enforce that restriction currently.