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Version 8.11 of the Pathfinder files for Hero Lab is now available

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Mathias

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Note: If you are using the encounter builder beta, check your email for a link to the 8.12 update, and use that, rather than 8.11.

A new update of the Pathfinder files for Hero Lab is available from the automatic updates mechanism within Hero Lab.

For those of you with Rite Publishing's Secrets of Adventuring package, we've added more content to that package - Chapter 7 as a free update to that package.

If you don't have Secrets of Adventuring yet, do you feel like your Pathfinder game needs a refresh? Feel like you just need a new take on classes or the usual approach to your games? From the publisher that brought you 1001 Spells, Rite Publishing is now bringing “The Secrets of Adventuring” to your game! This book brings provides new choices for the usual Pathfinder character options, and also takes a new approach to classes. If your players aren’t interested in the hack and slash approach, provide them with the option of Tactical Archetypes! Rite Publishing has partnered with Hero Lab to release Chapters 1-6 this month, and more chapters will be released over the following months as free updates to anyone that has purchased the package. Refresh your game today with “The Secrets of Adventuring” for only $14.99!

This update also includes several bug fixes - namely a fix to the custom magic weapon/armor sale price issue and some problems with Eldritch Heritage.
 
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Here's the change list for this update. The change lists for all versions of the Pathfinder files are available from the FAQ option in the Help menu.

New Releases!

  • Content from Chapter 7 of Secrets of Adventuring has been added to the Secrets of Adventuring package.
Enhancements & Changes

  • -
Bug Fixes

  • Immunity to Rust now shows up under immunities in the statblock.
  • The Word of Chaos spell wasn't displaying its DC.
  • The natural werebear template was showing its name as afflicted werebear.
  • The Skald Class was not able to learn any 0 level spells.
  • Many archetypes would report errors when added to a character without their associated class.
  • Preferred spell could not select spells you have access through via domains.
  • Kobold tail weapons were conflicting with other equipped weapons as though they required hands.
  • Small Elementals from Bestiary 2, 3, and 4 were not selectable as familiars through the Improved Familiar feat.
  • Natural Weapons gained from the Fused Eidolon ability of a Synthesist summoner were not gaining attack and damage bonuses.
  • Custom Magic weapons and armor were incorrectly calculating their value for gear totals and resale.
  • Item Powers were not detecting that their parent weapon was equipped when determining whether they should be disabled. The name of the source was also incorrect.
  • Kingdom Hexes with settlements would show as Villages at population 25000 or more.
  • The 2nd level version of the Blood Money spell (from the old version of RotRL) should have been obsoleted.
  • The Blackened Oracle Curse was not reducing it's penalty to attack at 10th level and higher.
  • Flurry of blows was taking double penalties from Power Attack/Deadly Aim at monk level 6th and higher.
  • The foresight spell adjustment was adding a Never Flat Footed/Never Surprised special even when not activated.
  • The Arcane Strike feat was not interacting correctly with the Magical Knack trait.
  • Intelligent Item Powers which allowed you to select a spell as a spell like ability were not setting their name correctly.
  • The Rallying Item Power's situational needed to mention a possible higher bonus.
  • The Improved and Greater Eldritch Heritage feats could not select any abilities from their associated bloodline.
  • Favorite Wordspells were not creating their names correctly.
  • Gnome and Wayang spell like abilities were not setting their caster level equal to the character level.
  • The Maggot, Giant race was incorrectly marked as CR 1, instead of CR 1/2.
  • Animal Companion/Familiar archetypes would report errors when added to a character without any classes granting an animal companion or familiar.
  • The Dervish Dancer bard archetype was not disabling several bardic performances.
  • The Graceful Grappler ability of the Tetori archetype was not removing attack penalties from the grappled condition and should have applied some text to the condition.
  • In Kingdom settlements, Tenements were not counting as houses for adjacency prerequisites.
  • Dirty Fighter now applies a damage bonus when flanking is activated.
  • The correct sourcebook is now specified on many monsters from the Bestiary.
  • On the iPad, equipping a Klar (or similar weapon-shield combo) as a shield no longer automatically deselects it as a weapon, and vice versa.
  • The Earth Breaker was missing the Ultimate Equipment source.
  • The Fungoid template was throwing an error about conflicting with the plant type it applied.
  • Several Custom Items, like the Legendary Item and Riffle Scrolls, were throwing errors when added to a hero.
Data File Authoring

  • Added the #situational_nonstatblock[] macro. This functions just like #situational[], but only shows its information in the Hero Lab UI and character sheets, but not when generating a statblock.
 
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Try rebooting your PC. that sometimes fixes things... and it is a simple thing to try while waiting for another solution if you have not tried it yet :)
 
Ha, yeah I tried that to no avail. In the end I just went and made coffee and read for a while. 45 minutes later it was almost complete
 
Is there a sticky that shows each of the previous updates? I've got some reports that I don't think have been addressed, and I just wanted to look and see if they were on the bug fix list of previous updates or not. No sense in bothering you to fix something that you know you haven't gotten to yet.
 
Ok, thanks.

Is it safe to assume that if it's not on that list, it hasn't been addressed, regardless of the status of the bug report? I checked my bug reports, and some of the open reports are on the list, and closed reports aren't.
 
The link to the bug reporting system is currently in a thread named "Please report Pathfinder bugs using the link in this thread". It's a stickied thread, 8 items down from this release announcement thread in the forum (at the time I write this).

For those who have not found this thread, where could we move it, so that it's easier to find? Where would you expect to find it, if not among the stickied threads? Or is is that we've built up too many stickied threads?
 
Mathias said:
The link to the bug reporting system is currently in a thread named "Please report Pathfinder bugs using the link in this thread". It's a stickied thread, 8 items down from this release announcement thread in the forum (at the time I write this).

For those who have not found this thread, where could we move it, so that it's easier to find? Where would you expect to find it, if not among the stickied threads? Or is is that we've built up too many stickied threads?
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Have you considered building a webpage to handle this? A single page with links to the various bug reporting mechanisms instead of having multiple stickied threads? Then you could just have one sticky thread that sends people to the bug reporting page (which could be added to the Hero Lab section of wolflair.com as well). It might clear up the confusion having one page with various reporting areas to cover the main Pathfinder bugs and 3rd party bug reports.
 
Mathias said:
The link to the bug reporting system is currently in a thread named "Please report Pathfinder bugs using the link in this thread". It's a stickied thread, 8 items down from this release announcement thread in the forum (at the time I write this).

For those who have not found this thread, where could we move it, so that it's easier to find? Where would you expect to find it, if not among the stickied threads? Or is is that we've built up too many stickied threads?
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Too many stickies I suggest moving the bug tracker into its own topic forum.

Similar to the game system and realm works forum.

Create a new Main topic forum with the header "BUG REPORTING ONLY"

Then have the game systems as sub headers with the bug tracker link on the first sticky and locked thread!

Like this

Pathfinder bug reporting tool

Maybe colour coding the individual game systems would help too.
 
bodrin said:
Too many stickies I suggest moving the bug tracker into its own topic forum.
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I mentioned this one awhile as some of this information is even duplicate stickies. Both the FGG and Rite Publishing bug reporting stickies are already part of the FAQ thread. I plan to add KQ today to that list.

So if nothing else have a single sticky that has all the 3PP bug reporting ways. Is the "Hero Lab Support Plans for Pathfinder RPG" thread useful at all anymore? Isn't "Friendly Forums" and "Forum rules! Please read before posting" the same thing? Couldn't they be merged into a single post?

Instead of a single thread for "Requested Capabilities" why not have a whole sub-forum maybe? For just things people want to see and then it can have current work a rounds for people to know about until an official request is done.

bodrin said:
Similar to the game system and realm works forum.

Create a new Main topic forum with the header "BUG REPORTING ONLY"
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Their is a post at the very top of main forum that takes you to the LW main webpage. Why not have the same thing for the Bug Reporting. have it maybe be a sub forum of this one? I don't know if it can do that but it would look different than just another sticky post.

The main issue is so many stickies that they blend together into a glob of words! :)
 
Two suggestions regarding making the bug report thread easier to use:

1: If the thread can be moved to be immediately AFTER the announcement thread, that might help with visibility.

2: including a link to it in the announcement post (and locking the thread) might be good.
 
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ShadowChemosh said:
Isn't "Friendly Forums" and "Forum rules! Please read before posting" the same thing? Couldn't they be merged into a single post?
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I can speak to this one! I'm planning to update the forum rules to mention forum etiquette. However, that's kind of taking a back seat to other priorities (IE - ushering Realm Works out the door, and preparing the digital streamers and noisemakers).

As for all of your other ideas (and the other ideas mentioned in this thread), I'll take a look at cleaning up the forum stickies along with revamping the forum rules. I'm not sure when it will happen, but it's officially added to my "to-do" list. Thanks for the feedback!
 
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