Ranger Combat Styles

[Asandir]

I've been working on adding a few new Combat Styles to Herolab for some third party stuff for my campaign and wanted to confirm what I think I already now.

Here it is:

I have three new combat styles for the ranger that I am adding to the system. Ranger Combat Styles are Custom Abilities. Each of those styles adds feats for selection at various levels. This is done using the BonusFor tag with a Tag ID and a name. A couple of the feats that are used are new in the PDF. The rest are existing feats from UC or APG generally. Since there is no way to modify those to add the BonusFor Tag, it appears that I have to add a new version of the feat so that the Combat Style can have it for selection.

Anything I am missing?

The other piece I was wondering about was whether it made sense to use the Replaces Thing ID tag when this dataset is loaded? Thoughts?

Thanks.

[Mathias]

Replace Thing Id is how you can modify the existing feats so that they have new BonusFor tags.

Replacements are checked before sources, so if you replace things, they will always be replaced, regardless of whether the source is checked or not.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Asandir

The other piece I was wondering about was whether it made sense to use the Replaces Thing ID tag when this dataset is loaded? Thoughts?

Be aware that if you do this to a feat from the APG you are then requiring that anyone that loads your campaign .user files mus ALSO have the APG official license. If they don't HL will fall into safe mode with an error about a missing Thing.

If all your players versions of HL have the APG license its not an issue. Just wanted to point that out...

[Asandir]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Replace Thing Id is how you can modify the existing feats so that they have new BonusFor tags.

Replacements are checked before sources, so if you replace things, they will always be replaced, regardless of whether the source is checked or not.

Interesting. Have to think about that a bit more. Thanks for the heads up.

[Asandir]

Originally Posted by ShadowChemosh

Be aware that if you do this to a feat from the APG you are then requiring that anyone that loads your campaign .user files mus ALSO have the APG official license. If they don't HL will fall into safe mode with an error about a missing Thing.

If all your players versions of HL have the APG license its not an issue. Just wanted to point that out...

Got it. Thanks as always.

[SeeleyOne]

Replaces Thing ID is good, but another thing to consider is that if the user file is in the folder, it is always being used. Even when you don't have that user file selected. For example, if you have a replaced Power Attack feat that is linked to "Super Cool Source" in the configure hero, when you leave the check box "Super Cool Source" blank it will make it so that nobody can use Power Attack at all while the box is not checked (it disappears from the list), or when it is checked the only version possible is your new one.