The Forbidden Arcana sourcebook is now available in Hero Lab, adding advanced magic options including qualities, traditions, mentor spirits, spells, and much more. This is available as a new package, and can be purchased here:
Forbidden Arcana
Here's the change list for this update:
New Releases!
- Content from Forbidden Arcana is now available as a new package! You can purchase this by choosing "Purchase Data Package" from the License menu.
Bug Fixes
Data File Authoring
- Added a new type of ability - Tradition Powers, which are displayed on the Magic tab below the tradition. This can be used to implement game effects that come from selecting a particular tradition.
- Added a new tag group for Qualities - QualSubCat (Quality Sub-Category). This is used for the two new types of qualities in Forbidden Arcana - the Mastery Qualities and Blood Crystal Qualities, and all existing Way qualities now use the new QualSubCat.AdeptWay quality instead of Helper.WayQuality (although the Helper.WayQuality on user-created qualities will still function).
- Normally, the drain of a spell cannot be reduced below 2. This minimum is no longer hard-coded, but is now stored in herofield[acDrainMin].value, so that it can be altered by abilities (for example, by the Structured Spellcasting metamagic).
- Added the #hastradition[Id] macro, which can be used to implement prereqs that require the presence of a specific magical tradition.
- Added the #hasstyle[Id] macro, which can be used to implement prereqs that require the presence of a specific martial arts style.
- Added the #hastechnique[Id] macro, which can be used to implement prereqs that require the presence of a specific martial arts technique.