Alternate Companion

[AndrewD2]

I'm working on a class that gets a companion. It's an Infernal Companion. It's table is not the same as a familiar, animal companion, or eidolon. Is there a way for me to enter this?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

I'm working on a class that gets a companion. It's an Infernal Companion. It's table is not the same as a familiar, animal companion, or eidolon. Is there a way for me to enter this?

Its a bit complex but yes. I had to do that for the SGG Dragonrider actually. If you look at the dragonrider class in the SGG package you see I made the dragon a minion and it boostrapped the extra hit dice Thing. Then I think if I remember correctly I either pushed tags to the minion or I referenced a "level" Thing located on the Master.

It works but its not 5 minutes of work...

 

[AndrewD2]

Well I'm not necessarily looking for 5 minutes of work. This is for an official release for Rite Publishing (I've been working on this blasted release for most of a year)

 

[AndrewD2]

I like how this is done. I can't figure out if there is a way to change the number of hit dice short of having the player add them.

 

[AndrewD2]

So I tried making a Dragonrider to analyze how it worked and I came across an issue, it appears the dragonrider doesn't actually have a companion. I wanted to see how you handled the full BAB and different Hit Dice

 

[ShadowChemosh]

So I tried making a Dragonrider to analyze how it worked and I came across an issue, it appears the dragonrider doesn't actually have a companion. I wanted to see how you handled the full BAB and different Hit Dice

Correct it's a minion you add on the Other tab. Then as you level the Dragon auto gains hit dice. You saw that right?

 

[AndrewD2]

Nope, but I do now. I'm just not sure where the auto adding the hit dice is coming from.

 

[Aaron]

Try making a copy of the minion in the editor and look for eval scripts of bootstrapped Extra HD levels with bootstrap conditions. That's where I would look

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Nope, but I do now. I'm just not sure where the auto adding the hit dice is coming from.

On the "Race" tab the steeds have a huge number of bootstraps. They are all bootstrapping "cBonusHD" Thing. Then about 20 of them have a bootstrap condition First/500 like:

fieldval:anCompLev >= 2

So that the cBonusHD does not become active until anCompLev is level 2. The field anCompLev is being set in a script on the steed at First/450:

~ Set animal companion level based off the Steed Class ability
~ this is so the bootstrap Bonus HD work correctly.
field[anCompLev].value += master.hero.child[cDrrSteed].field[abValue].value

So in this case I am pulling a value from the Steed Class Thing which holds what level the animal companion (ie Dragon) is suppose to be.

 

[Aaron]

Heebidy jeebidy. What he said.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Heebidy jeebidy. What he said.

Excellent call though on what I did.

 

[AndrewD2]

You know I'm blind. I looked right at that *facepalm*