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Fenris447
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Old November 15th, 2020, 04:50 PM
Take a look in the editor at one of the Dieties from Theros. You'll see that it bootstraps the Piety ability (ab5CPiety). That Piety ability will add tags (5CPiety.1, 5CPiety.3, etc) to the Hero whenever they reach a piety score of a certain amount. The default amounts are 1, 3, 10, 25, and 50, because that's what the Theros book uses. It's possible to add different amounts from those, but more complicated and advanced than you may want to go.* So I'd suggest sticking with those.

The Deity also bootstraps each of its piety abilities, with conditionals that look for those tags. So when you reach piety 3 with Mogis, you get the "Mogis's Devotee" ability. If you look at Mogis, you'll see that it bootstraps that ability, with a condition of "hero#5CPiety.3", which is looking to see if the tag for level 3 piety is present on the Hero.

So you'll make your own deity, probably using "New (Copy)" of an existing Theros one. Make your abilities for your various piety levels, then replace the bootstraps on the copied deity with your new abilities, making sure the bootstrap condition for each ability looks for the appropriate tag for its Piety score requirement.


*To do this, I had to define custom tags in the COM_5ePack - Tags.1st file. To add new piety level tags, you'd need to make your own Tags file with a new group and new tags. Then you'd have to create a new copy of the ab5CPiety ability, and change its eval script to add your new custom tags at the appropriate Piety levels. Finally, you'd go back to your custom diety. Bootstrap your new version of Piety in place of the old one, and use your new tags as the conditions for your bootstraps. It's totally doable, just harder. And if you're going to do this, don't modify the community pack files; make your own separate ones. If you modify the community pack files, your changes will be overwritten the next time the pack is updated.

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Last edited by Fenris447; November 19th, 2020 at 10:09 AM.
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