Authoring Question, Adjustments

[morval]

Obvious Newbie here for authoring, wow, this stuff is hard to wrap your head around. I do programming, but there is so much hidden stuff. Not complaining, just saying.

I added an Archetype that gave rage to a fighter, that was easy. No programming, just changed a few fields and saved it. I added an Archetype that gave the Cleric an arcane familiar, again easy. Mainly because both things I wanted to do were doable in Archetype. But neither of these things were gained through an Archetype, that was just the only way I could do it.

I'd prefer to do it as an adjustment. If I simply manually bootstrap rage unchained to an adjustment and then give a character that adjustment you get a few errors. cTotalLev doesn't exist....field calculate script 'xTotalLev' and the same thing for cSpcBonLev. I'm guessing when bootstrapping to an Archetype things are setup automatically for you since that's what an Archetype will already do. An adjustment is more generic and some actually scripting will be needed?

If someone could point me in the right direction or say you can't do it that way that would be great. Not looking for the total solution, just some help.

I have watched the helpful videos, read as much as I can on the Wiki and other excellent postings, etc.

 

[Mathias]

You'll need to re-create the scripts on your adjustment, with modifications, since you no longer have the class level of that class special. Class Specials can only be bootstrapped from something that can tell them what their effective level is, or you'll get the errors you're seeing here, and adjustments do not have a level of their own.