Scripting Help Request

[ShadowChemosh]

Attached to this is a proof of concept for demonic boons. Once you load it and restart HL go to the adjust tab and add the adjustment "Show Demonic Boons Tab".

Then on the Demonic Boons tab you can add Baphomet demon lord. The Demonic Boons tab will then display three things:
DemonicBoons1.jpg

You get the demon lord and two other helper Picks with dropdowns allowing for selecting a value from 0 to +4. The demon lord pick does validation to make sure the gamer has not selected a total bonus over +4.

Now lets say you want to add the next demon lord "DEMOGORGON". You would make a copy of the "Baphomet" demon lord Thing. To set the ability scores for Demongorgon you need to change a tag on the bootstrapped ability helper Things:

Baphomet has:

    <bootstrap thing="ab5CDemBoonAbiSco">
      <autotag group="CMDOpt" tag="aSTR"/>
      </bootstrap>
    <bootstrap thing="ab5CDemBoonAbiSco">
      <autotag group="CMDOpt" tag="aWIS"/>
      </bootstrap>

You just need to change the CMDOpt tag to be the new ability score of Charisma instead of Wisdom:

    <bootstrap thing="ab5CDemBoonAbiSco">
      <autotag group="CMDOpt" tag="aSTR"/>
      </bootstrap>
    <bootstrap thing="ab5CDemBoonAbiSco">
      <autotag group="CMDOpt" tag="aCHA"/>
      </bootstrap>

The thing ab5CDemBoonAbiSco takes care of adjusting the ability scores and then a validation check on the Demon Lord makes sure we don't spend over the +4 bonus. This is done by storing the total value from the Demonic Boons Ability Score picks into the abValue5 field on the demon lord pick.

NOTE: I had to add new features into community pack helper file so you will need to pull the latest github files to get this to compile.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by ShadowChemosh

NOTE: I had to add new features into community pack helper file so you will need to pull the latest github files to get this to compile.

I updated a file from the community pack that makes the options/values work.

Download the latest COM_5ePack - Helper Things.user file from GitHub.

Then you will get the new selection helper Things I added.

[Mergon]

ShadowChemoshL

I'll look at this soon as I have a chance. Currently preparing for a Saturday night game session. Thx a lot.

[Mergon]

I wouldn't normally allow someone to have more than one Demonic Boon myself. Hiwever, some of my players are quite crafty and my pull off something sneaky (yet again) and end up with two.

I can see at least one of my plauers playing one demon off another and gettign the benefit of two boons for the duration.

In my opinion, Epic Boons are the best way to go with such Boons; mostly because, much like Epic Boons, they are normally granted by beings of power.

[ShadowChemosh]

The configurable can be bootstrapped to anything at this point without issues. In addition you could have a person select multiple demon lords from the configurable. The only thing then is another script maybe needed to append the demon lord name to the Ability Adjustment so a gamer has a easy time figuring out which ability score boost goes with which demon lord.

[Mergon]

My game session got called for tonight. The tornado's in the region yesterday still have some of my players without power.

Thus, I've been trying to get my head around the coding you created. Once I do, this should go straight forward.

Right now I am just trying to convert what you created to an Epic Boon instead of an Adjustment.

Once I get one working, the others will be straight forward. The other abilities that gp with a Demonic Boon are straight forward. I just lost my sample when I lost the contents of that hard drive. :/

Shouldn't take me long to re-create.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Mergon

Right now I am just trying to convert what you created to an Epic Boon instead of an Adjustment.

The adjustment I provided is just a method to get the Configurable live on the character. You simply need to bootstrap the configurable to whatever a Epic Boon is. I honestly have no idea if that is a feat, ability, etc..

The idea is you just need some Thing else to bootstrap the configurable to that a gamer will add to the hero.

[Mergon]

Epic Boons are an option in 5E. Usually gained by gaining 50,000 xp above and beyond 20th level (or as a major DM reward.

Shadow, do you have a DnDBeyond account? If so, I can email you a link to a blank campaign I share among my players. If you create a character, you'll have access to all my materials on the site. I purchased the Ultimate Pack that gives me everything up toMordenkainen's. Let me know if you want access.

Btw, you can create a free account on DnDBeyond that lets you create up to 6 characters.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Mergon

Shadow, do you have a DnDBeyond account? If so, I can email you a link to a blank campaign I share among my players. If you create a character, you'll have access to all my materials on the site. I purchased the Ultimate Pack that gives me everything up toMordenkainen's. Let me know if you want access.

I do not but I appreciate the offer. I currently have no plans to really do anything with 5E. I know HL so I try help here but the actual game is not one I or my players play.

Currently we are doing the PF2 playtest and Starfinder....

Thank you though...

[Mergon]

I have a HLO active account. Unfortunately I have not been impressed with PF2 so far. I absolutely hate what they did to races. A lot of other stuff is great mind you.

As it is, when we play PF, the group wants to stick with the original Pathfinder.