Bonus feat selections

[huntercc]

I'm trying to enter a new class that should be able to select specific feats as bonus feats, regardless of whether they meet the normal prereqs for the feat. This should be similar to the Monk being able to select Improved Grapple as a bonus feat, but not as a normal feat, if he does not meet the requirements.

I can't seem to get it to work though... as far as I can tell I've done it the same way, but in the bonus feat list my new feat says I don't meet the prereqs.

Any suggestions?

 

[huntercc]

I got it to work, but only by copying and editing the monk panel for my class. So now it uses a chooser instead of a dynamic table. I'm sure you're going to say that's not recommended... is there another way to get it to work?

 

[Lawful_g]

I'd also like to know, because I am doing a class that gets a specific bonus feat at a specific level.

 

[Lawful_g]

Specifically, it is an Exotic weapon proficiency in a specific thing (Manacles), so would it be possible to give him the Exotic weapon proficiency and have the selection already done?

 

[Lawful_g]

I tried Bootstrapping the feats to class specials gained at higher levels, but it is applying the feat upon taking the first level of the prestige class, as well as giving me a validation error for unmet prerequisites

 

[huntercc]

For exotic weapon prof's, use this script:
hero.assign[WepProf.weaponid]

It won't show in the list of feats, but you'll have the proficiency.

I haven't done anything with prestige classes yet, but I would guess you would need to put a Condition on the bootstrap for the feat?

 

[huntercc]

To disable validation of feats, it would be nice to have the capability to "turn it off" for a given feat... maybe by adding a tag such as "Helper.NoValidate"

 

[Lawful_g]

Thanks Hunter, that did the trick nicely, after I made a new feat and used the script you suggested

 

[huntercc]

hmm now I need to complicate my initial request... my new class has two types of feats that are acceptable as bonus feats. One type can be selected whether he meets the prereqs or not, the other type must have the prereqs satisfied. I can get HL to either ignore prereqs on all of my bonus feats, or enforce prereqs on all of them.

Is it possible to get it to do a combination of the two?

 

[Colen]

huntercc wrote:
>
>
> hmm now I need to complicate my initial request... my new class has two
> types of feats that are acceptable as bonus feats. One type can be
> selected whether he meets the prereqs or not, the other type must have
> the prereqs satisfied. I can get HL to either ignore prereqs on all of
> my bonus feats, or enforce prereqs on all of them.
>
> Is it possible to get it to do one or the other?


I've just spent a while talking to Rob about exactly how to handle this
issue, and we had a solution all thought out. But it doesn't handle the
situation you just described - where some feats can ignore
pre-requisites, and some can't... is that an official class, or is it a
custom one?


Until we get the proper solution implemented, to solve this I'd
recommend just creating copies of the feats you need. You can then
delete the pre-requisites from them, so they'll stop giving validation
errors.


Hope this helps,


--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development

 

[huntercc]

Yeah, that would handle it. I would just need to make sure the copies weren't selected as the normal feat selection. And this is a custom class, not an official one. Using my custom class panel, I can get it to either check all the prereqs or ignore all the prereqs, I just can't seem to get a script that can decide whether to check them or not.

Thanks for the suggestion!