Bonus feats that don't have to meet prereqs

[Gauthok]

I'm working on making Sohei Monk as a Gestalt Archetype on Oracle, and I am having trouble with the bonus feats. I was able to set saves, add flurry and AC bonus, etc, but while I can get the bonus feats to show up, I can't seem to find how to make them not need to meet the prereqs.

I'm just getting started with the editor, so mostly I'm doing the copy/paste/tweak thing to get my feet wet.

Thanks!

 

[Gauthok]

Actually, looks like I made another error in Weapon Training too.

I tried using the scripts I found in the Sohei archetype:


~ our secondary abilities table uses the fighter's primary abilities
linkage[varies].field[cCstS2Expr].text = "(SpecSource.cHelpFtr & !Helper.Secondary & !Helper.Tertiary & !Helper.Quaternary) & (thingid.cFtrWBows | thingid.cFtrWCrsb | thingid.cFtrWMonk | thingid.cFtrWPoleA | thingid.cFtrWSpear | thingid.cFtrWThrow)"


~build up a tag expression to identify all weapon training abilities for
~this class
var expr as string
expr = "wFtrGroup.? & CustTaken." & linkage[varies].idstring

~first, make sure we have any weapon training abilities for this class.
~If we don't, there's nothing to do here.
doneif (hero.haschild[BaseCustSp,expr] = 0)

~the best bonus available to all weapon training abilities is 1 at 5th level,
~+1 per 4 levels after that. If we don't have a bonus, we're done.
var bonus as number
bonus = linkage[varies].field[cGiveSp2nd].value
var tagbonus as number
doneif (bonus = 0)

~go through all of our weapon training abilities in ascending order,
~giving a decreasing bonus to each.
foreach pick in hero from BaseCustSp where expr

~set the bonus for this ability
eachpick.field[abValue].value += bonus + 1 - eachpick.field[xIndex].value

tagbonus = eachpick.field[abValue].value

~forward the weapon group tag we're assigned to the class a number of
~times equal to the bonus we're receiving
if (eachpick.field[abValue].value >= 1) then
var i as number
var wepexpr as string
var bonustag as string
wepexpr = eachpick.tagids[wFtrGroup.?," | "]
bonustag = eachpick.tagids[TrainBonus.?, ""]
foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where wepexpr
for i = 1 to tagbonus
perform eachpick.assignstr[bonustag]
next
perform eachpick.assign[Helper.ShowFlurry]
nexteach
endif

nexteach

Then I put Weapon Training as a Quintenary Ability at rows 5, 11, and 17. Weapon Training first shows up at level 6 as it should, but I get an error saying there is nothing to select. Do I need to change the tagging in the above to Tertiary, Quaternary, Quintenary?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

I can't seem to find how to make them not need to meet the prereqs.

You need to add a script that will assign the "Helper.BonFtNoPre" to the class the archetype is attached too. Its actually easier than it sounds.

First/100

~ Make the class's bonus feats ignore prereqs
perform linkage[varies].assign[Helper.BonFtNoPre]

Just tried it out and it worked great. Just to add to make sure it's clear this script should be placed directly on the archetype.

 

[Gauthok]

Thanks! I looked through Monk to see if I could find something like that but didn't see anything.

 

[Gauthok]

Ok, I did that, but it removes prereqs on all feats in the list.

Since I'm working on a Sohei Gestalt archetype, that isn't quite right. I need some of the feats to only be available at certain levels, for instance, Medusa's Wrath shouldn't be a valid pick until 10th.

I tried to find the code in Monk that does this, and I'm still a bit confused. There are picks in bonus feats for Monk 1, Monk 6, etc.

I also took another look at Weapon Training, and I'm still not sure what's wrong with it. It shows up at the right levels, but there's nothing to choose. I tried re-assigning it to a Quaternary ability, since Quintenary wasn't mentioned in the code, but that's a no go.