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Custom Expression for Dex linked Skills

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Lawful_g

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How would you do this? I have an item that applies a bonus to one selected Dex based skill. There are no tags on the skills for thier linked attribute, and the only Item I have found that does something similar (the Circlet of Persuasion) does it through an eval to att to all Cha based skills, rather than one of the user's choice.
 
You would just apply the bonus directly to the skill, rather than to the attribute score bonus of that skill. As far as I know, there is no way to modify the attribute bonus to one specific skill.

I'm guessing you want to do this to allow the player to be flat-footed and loose the bonus to that skill?
 
No, I just want to limit the drop down selection to skills that use Dexterity. As I have it now the drop down is all skills, and the bonus is applied only if the selected skill is dex based.
 
For the different traits I have done I just create a Custom Expression for those specific skills. In Pathfinder their are only 7 skills that are Dex based so it goes pretty quickly.

In example:
Code: 
thingid.skAcrobatics|thingid.skDisable|thingid.skEscape|thingid.skFly|thingid.skRide|thingid.skSlieght|thingid.skStealth
You will need to double check the Thingid's as I am not near HL so those are my best guess. It would be nice to have a Dex Tag similar to what their is for Knowledge and Profession skills but their is not. Or at least none that I know off.

But the above Custom Expression works and their should be very little reason for their to be future Dex skills added to the game.

Hope that helps.
 
Fair enough, I always try to code for future additions, but I think I'll do that if there is no better way.
 
There's something in the APG (can't remember exactly what) that requires the selection of a mental ability score-linked skill - I just left that at all skills and added "Note: " text to tell the user there isn't a way to enforce that restriction currently.
 
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