Adjusting Carrying Capacity

[ohkwarig]

I backed the Pathfinder Online Kickstarter, and got a boon that can grant a variety of effects. One of them is "Treat your Strength score as 2 points higher when determining your carrying capacity." Is there any way to do this inside of Hero Lab? My character is just on the border of having medium encumbrance just carrying a bow, his mace, and wearing his armor, so this boon might be very helpful. I would very much like to be able to have Hero Lab account for it automatically.

I thought about doing an adjustment to encumbrance (using Adjust -> Other Adjustments -> Encumbrance) and taking off two strength categories of weight, but that isn't really accurate. Anyone have a better way to do this?

thanks!

 

[Mathias]

Take a look at the script that's on the "Backpack, masterwork". That increases your effective STR by 1 for the purpose of carrying capacity.

 

[ohkwarig]

Take a look at the script that's on the "Backpack, masterwork". That increases your effective STR by 1 for the purpose of carrying capacity.

I appreciate your prompt reply -- that looks perfect. I've never looked at editing files before, so my first task was figuring that out. It took an embarrassingly long time to figure out I had to go to Tools -> Launch Editor and now I'm once again stuck. How do I open up an existing file to examine how things are done? The Editor appears to allow me to open .dat or .user files. The files that I'm guessing are the official Hero Lab Pathfinder files do not appear to be openable -- which makes sense to me because if I could open them, it would be a trivial matter to copy and spread them throughout the world for free... Or maybe they can be opened, and I just don't know how.

From the Develop menu, I also discovered that I can Enable Data File Debugging, so I did that. I discovered from the Floating Info Windows -> Show Hero Fields that there appears to be a field called tEncumSTR which does exactly what I wanted originally. I figure I need to (somehow) create a modification to my hero that does

tEncumSTR += 2

and I'm done.

Can anyone give me a hint on how to do that and only that?

Thanks much in advance!

 

[risner]

Go into editor

Create New file

name it "me.user" or whatever

copy the masterwork backpack

copy an adjustment

make script on adjustment same as backpack

delete backpack

save file

close editor

restart herolab

 

[ohkwarig]

Go into editor

Create New file

name it "me.user" or whatever

copy the masterwork backpack

copy an adjustment

make script on adjustment same as backpack

delete backpack

save file

close editor

restart herolab

Genius! That worked perfectly.

I did not realize that the Editor includes all of those items itself, so that when you create a new file, you can look at those things. You have opened a whole new world for me.

If you'll be at GenCon, you have earned yourself a beverage of your choice.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

If interested in learning more about the Editor see FAQ#2 for all the places to learn about the Editor. Also worth watching the Four YouTube videos to learn more about scripting.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

v2.5 of my adjustments addon is out and it includes a new adjustment "Encumbrance, Carrying Capacity" Use this adjustment to change your your Strength score to be treated as higher/lower value than normal when calculating your carrying capacity. This is just like the Masterwork Backpack idea but allows it through an adjustment.