Spark Plug (electrical version of Pyromaniac Gnome alternate racial triat)

[zinzarin]

I'm making an alternate version of the Pyromaniac alternate racial trait for Gnomes called Spark Plug; it does pretty much the same thing, but with electrical spells/class features instead of fire, and swaps Shocking Grasp for Produce Flame in the spell-like abilities.

Most of the changes were easy to make, up until the effect on Alchemist bombs. This, it looks like, will require some scripting in the BombDam procedure.

I found this thread:
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=49560

That shows how the existing BombDam procedure works, and I can suss out from that what my new/revised script will have to look like, in principle.

1st question: can I make changes to the BombDam procedure from within the HeroLab Editor? If not, how do I get all of the existing bombs to look at my new procedure instead of BombDam?

2nd question: what is the Helper.PyroGnome that's invoked by the existing Pyromaniac alternate racial trait, and how do I make a Helper.SparkGnom for my new trait?

 

[Aaron]

I'm making an alternate version of the Pyromaniac alternate racial trait for Gnomes called Spark Plug; it does pretty much the same thing, but with electrical spells/class features instead of fire, and swaps Shocking Grasp for Produce Flame in the spell-like abilities.

Most of the changes were easy to make, up until the effect on Alchemist bombs. This, it looks like, will require some scripting in the BombDam procedure.

I found this thread:
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=49560

That shows how the existing BombDam procedure works, and I can suss out from that what my new/revised script will have to look like, in principle.

1st question: can I make changes to the BombDam procedure from within the HeroLab Editor? If not, how do I get all of the existing bombs to look at my new procedure instead of BombDam?

2nd question: what is the Helper.PyroGnome that's invoked by the existing Pyromaniac alternate racial trait, and how do I make a Helper.SparkGnom for my new trait?

1st: Replace the Bomb weapons with new weapons which call your new procedure.

2nd: You can't add new Helper tags, so you'd want to make a Custom tag instead.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

1st: Replace the Bomb weapons with new weapons which call your new procedure.

I am sorry I almost never advise anyone to use Replace Thing ID anymore. It will cause you issues and you will never get new features for those Things.

You would be better off writing a script that Modifies the Values for Bombs before or after the procedure runs. That has a better chance of working in the future when LW makes changes.