Natural attacks

[huntercc]

I'm trying to input the Thri-kreen into HL... how would I give it the 4 claws and 1 bite as natural attacks?

[Mathias]

You looked at one of the other monstrous creatures with claws and bite (Gargoyle come to mind) to see how to enter the Claw and Bite attacks, right? They're in the bootstraps. You'll only enter a single claw attack, since HL doesn't support complexities like 4-armed combat yet.

[huntercc]

I did, but what do the 1d6_5 and 1d4_4 mean?

[huntercc]

I'm trying to get the Deflect Arrows feat to show up at 3rd level of the monster class, so I added the following line to the condition on the bootstrap that adds the feat:

count:Classes.Thrikreen >= 3

But when I test it, the feat doesn't show up... any ideas?? Am I supposed to use the unique id of the class in that line, or the just its name?

I've tried looking at the Ranger class to see how the Endurance feat is added, but I don't see any conditions on it at all... how does that one work??

Sorry for all the questions, I'm just trying to learn it all!

[Mathias]

Click "help" at the top left of the editor - on that page, near the bottom, is "Reference Information". The last entry in that page is "Weapons" - that explains 1d6_5 and 1d4_4.

For feats at a certain level, an example is the Soulknife's Greater Weapon Focus - go to the class specials tab, "new (copy)", and select "Greater Weapon Focus (Mindblade)" - the secret is the condition statement there.

Timing: PreLevel, 10000
Classes.Soulknife>=9

But, it's the condition box under the bootstrap box. You also need to have the racial/class special ability in between the race and the feat. It won't work if the race selects the feat directly.

To find out what to count, add Thrikreen to a test character, then "View" "Floating info windows" "hero tags" - that's where you would see 9 Classes.Soulknife tags for the example I gave earlier. It looks like you're going to have to figure out whether Classes.Race or Hero.HitDice are the right thing to count.

[huntercc]

Which data file is the Soulknife in? I can't seem to find it

[Colen]

huntercc wrote:
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> I'm trying to input the Thri-kreen into HL... how would I give it the 4
> claws and 1 bite as natural attacks?


How exactly does the Thri-Kreen work? Are all the claw attacks at the
same attack bonus, and are they primary or secondary attacks?



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Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development

[Colen]

huntercc wrote:
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>
> I'm trying to get the Deflect Arrows feat to show up at 3rd level of the
> monster class, so I added the following line to the condition on the
> bootstrap that adds the feat:
>
> count:Classes.Thrikreen >= 3
>
> But when I test it, the feat doesn't show up... any ideas?? Am I
> supposed to use the unique id of the class in that line, or the just its
> name?


Yes, you should be using the unique id of the class in that line. Is
that not working correctly? Are you sure you capitalized it the same way
you defined it?


--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development

[Colen]

huntercc wrote:
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> Which data file is the Soulknife in? I can't seem to find it


You can find the Soulknife in srdpsi_class_soulknife.dat.

--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development

[Mathias]

Which is not in HeroLab/data/d20/source...

Originally Posted by Colen

huntercc wrote:
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> Which data file is the Soulknife in? I can't seem to find it


You can find the Soulknife in srdpsi_class_soulknife.dat.

--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development