Creating a User Choice race, want to see if I grok it.

[Enforcer84]

Using Half-Dragon as an example -

I want to make a race with bloodlines of Giants and they get some abilities based on which race of giants has been their progenitor.

So I'm trying to hack this together and I have a few questions:

• IIRC the Dragon Choice is hard coded, correct? I wanted to do something similar for expanded dragon races and I think this was a killing point.
  
• where is a good place in the timing to set up such a player choice?
  
• I notice there are two Choice items, one is Energy Type, and one is Energy Type (Base 4) but they are functionally identical. Is it possible to add energy types to the former?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

You should do the same they did for Blood of Angles and Blood of Fiends. So you would use "R Cust Specials" which would allow a choice of different options to pick. Each choice then can be a different giant type.

 

[Enforcer84]

Thanks for the response Shadow, I'll have to look for those. What's the source for them?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Thanks for the response Shadow, I'll have to look for those. What's the source for them?

The Tiefling race I think is in CORE and if you activate "Council of Thieves" you will see the Tiefling race can select these optional abilities. Otherwise Blood of is a set of Player Companions....

These are setup on the "R Cust Special" tab and you simply link it to your race. Then on your race you can set the number of specials too 1. I am not near HL so I don't remember the field name sorry. But I think its pretty obvious.

 

[Enforcer84]

Coolio! I'll check it out


edit: oooh that's where the ethnicities are too. Ok I think I can grok this...if not, i'll be back!

 

[Enforcer84]

Oh my Goodness...Thanks ShadowChemosh, that was perfect.