Generic Trait

[Sphynx]

While creating characters with my group, it seems that the primary use of Traits in our game is to turn something into a Class Skill or Skill Bonus. However, only a few Skills are covered in this way, so I've decided to allow players to spend 2 Traits to get 1 Generic Trait...

Is it possible to do this in the editor?

Ie:

A Trait that takes up 2 Trait slots.
Lets you pick a skill to get both a +1 to it, and flip it into a Class Skill?

I realize I can do this by copying something like Highlander and just changing the text/skill, and manually controlling that they get only 1 trait (have done this for now)... but was hoping for a generic trait that you just selected a skill from a drop-down box for to prevent always having to create a new trait...

[Sphynx]

Actually, don't answer this for a bit, gonna try and figure this out on my own... found component.BaseSkill in the Skill Focus feat, and think I can do this now... at least the skill selection/bonus part. :P

[Sphynx]

Ok, got the skill bonus +1 working by adding this:

Field:
Field ID: usrCandid1 Value: component.BaseSkill

This is my Eval Script:
~ If we're disabled, do nothing
doneif (tagis[Helper.SpcDisable] <> 0)

~ Set our focus to the selected pick
call fTargetFoc
doneif (state.isfocus = 0)

~ Add 1 to our chosen skill
focus.field[Bonus].value += 1

~ #makeclassskill[focus.field[Bonus]]

Had to comment out the makeclassskill, it errored, but the +1 works fine. Any idea what I need to do to make the class skill part work?

Thanks for any help. I realize the (takes 2 trait slots) is probably not gonna happen, but this is a huge step forward already.

[AndrewD2]

make class skill doesn't need a filed, just try focus

[Sphynx]

I think the focus.field line messes up the ability to call focus, because anything I do (I've tried focus, focus.id, focus.field, etc, they all get the same error: Non-existent thing 'focus' used by script.

[Aaron]

And for making it cost 1 more trait slot, just add this line

#resspent[resTrait] += 1

[Aaron]

For making it a class skill, assign the Helper.ClassSkill to the focus. Like so

perform focus.assign[Helper.ClassSkill]

[Sphynx]

Thanks Aaron, that did the trick.