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d6 Star Wars

thedarkelf007 said:
Another question:

How can I change / set the race in the static form from he authoring kit from another item.

example:
- Star Wars has templates
- Each template is assigned a race
- I want to auto select the race when the template is selected or leave it blank if no template is selected
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You'll need to tell me more about what "Template" means in this game system. Are they unique, or can there be more than one template on a character? If a template requires a certain race, does that work the other way around, too? Certain races must always have certain templates?

By default in Hero Lab, races are selected from a chooser (rather than from a table like on the abilities tab - tables allow the user to add more than one thing from a category, choosers only allow a single selection from that category).

The thing selected in a chooser can only be changed by the user, and not by Hero Lab (with the exception that you can set a default value for it, if you wanted a new, blank character to be human, for example, rather than having no race selected).

So, if there can be 0 or more templates, but there must be exactly one race on each character, I'd recommend making the templates an automatic function of the races that require them, rather than the other way around.
 
I had a go at customising the character output.

As you can see I have force sensitive, skills, templates and races working.

Advancement is elusive, will ask questions later for help, but all skills are now entered correctly.

I will eventually line up the attributes correctly, and the template information is missing if custom build is selected.

Force skills and advance skills appear in new section when in use, specialisations appear with the skill.

I will look at how to add skills to a character with a template that can then be removed by user.

Though next I will be completing the Template descriptions in the selection window and making it the first Tab on the character builder, then move on to a Race Tab, and more to follow. After playing with the character sheet I believe I can customise the tabs a lot more now to make them work as I need them to.
 

Attachments

Word wrap:

Is it possible to have text wrap in a label on the tabs like you can have in the output?

If so how can you do this?

Currently if you exceed the width it just goes off the screen.
 
Actually in Star Wars D6, templates aren't required, and the race they default to isn't required either. Templates are essentially created characters that you can use and change to make the character you want. Want to play Han Solo? Well, take the "smuggler" template. Since it already defaults as human, nothing to change there, and then just throw down your skill dice, and you're set. Wanna play an Ithorian Jedi? Take the "Alien Student of the Force" template, and switch out the race to be Ithorian, then throw down your skill dice, and wa la! Of course, you can just make a character from scratch, which is what I always do.
 
That is a simplification...

Templates are good starting blocks, but provide a good starting point for players not skilled in the system. Default races for templates are there to be used as standard unless agreed upon by the GM. Though I can't see many GM's not agreeing depending on what the player is trying to achieve. Wookiee, Ewok or Mon Calamari template on Rodian does not make sense to me, but who knows what a player would wish to do.

So I have built it to take the template as default and give some standard text based on chosen template, pre-add the skills from the template, pre-set the attribute values from the template. A custom template can be chosen with no pre-sets, but no template descriptions.

Once a template is chosen, the user selects the race, with races containing attributes outside the template greyed out (but still selectable).

Once you have chosen a race, errors will be reported if the racial max or min are exceeded.

Then you can change the starting attribute points to match the race, or to a different idea or concept. Also select force sensitive as its skill points are taken from the starting attribute points. Though doing so will lock in the choice of starting template. Errors will be thrown if a force skill or power is selected without being force sensitive. Force templates will be allowed without force sensitive, but as they pre-select the indicated force powers errors will still appear.

Next you can select new Skills, including Skill Specialisations, and assign skill points.

Once skills have been chosen, you need to decide on force abilities if you have taken any force skills.

Then I am adding a new section for making your own background, personality, objective, quotes and connection with other characters where different from the template. (this section will not be required on character sheets, but is good for role-play pointers).

Then Armour, Weapons, Equipment, Minions (Droids and followers), Starships and Vehicles.

Droid characters will need their own tab for modifications.

Force will include force traditions of which Jedi and Tyia are explained in the main rules, so other will be included as the three defaults.

So if you want Alien student of the force it has three force tradition options, and no race specified...

If you want Young Jedi, then warning will be encountered if Human and Jedi tradition are not selected.

As always, warnings can be ignored, but they are there for when players do something unexpected so the GM can approve or not allow.

I have also set up Droid and Force characters as optional for character creation so they can be turned off for some games.

This is still a work in progress but it is getting there.
 
Impressive. Most impressive.....

Kudos to you and your ambition with this D6 project. I have been thinking of this for a while, but lack the time/skill in its implementation. I am intimately familiar with the system, and even own 99% of the books. If there is anything I can do to help, reference data or something, since I am not very programming savvy, let me know. If you have existing setups for configuration, I am able enough within HL to enter data like that. I am ultimately looking at trying to adapt the D6 system to use in D20PRO, although I am sure that automation will be improbable due to the programs base design intentions. I feel that it would be easy enough to use in this manner, as the D6 system is easy enough to use, just roll xd6! So, much thanks for starting this project. I am waiting with baited breath for a useable D6 HL product.
 
I'm doing a little reformatting of files which you can help if you want to, once that is completed I have left over to input weapons, vehicles and starships.

Send me you email address and I will pass you the details I could use help with.

Work is kinda swamping me right now, but I am intending on starting to use it this Friday as I start a d6 Star Wars game.

Advancement and character sheets need a little more work as well.

I have also worked out how to do supplements starting with Galaxy Guide 4.

I also need to do NPCs and creatures for encounters
 
Hi All, while trying to share the new game system for other to test, what do they need to do?

I have created a .hl file, which imports correctly, but only sees to open in demo mode?

have I missed anything here?
 
If someone doesn't own the authoring kit package, then any game systems created with the authoring kit will run in demo mode for them.
 
If you want to test, send me a PM and I will send you the file.

:-)

Slowly working on it when I have time, still cleaning up the presentation of skills having just made races and templates work better.
 
hmm have an interesting issue with Advancement

When I try and advance a type of skill (I have Dex, Kno, Mec, Per, Str, Tec, Adv and Force skill types) of the type Force, I get the following error that I can't seem to fix.

"This selection is not permitted (all effects are ignored)"

Anyone got an idea on how to fix it?
 
That sounds like the sort of error you'd get due to containereqs or conditions, or some other way of controlling whether something is live or not - it happens when something that's been added manually by the user becomes non-live, and in a way Hero Lab doesn't expect.
 
I'm guessing that Force skills aren't allowed to be taken unless something gives you access to them. If that's the case, I'd recommend using a prereq to keep those who can't use them from taking them, instead of controlling their live/non-live state - that way, if a user starts making a force-capable character, and changes their mind about what sort of character to build, when they delete whatever gave them access to the force skills before deleting the skills themselves, they'll only get an error message from each skill, and you won't have to worry about the live state of those skills.
 
Was a containerreq.

already had prereq's in a later update of the code, but left the containerreq in there.

Works now thanks, you pointed me at the right source :-)
 
I'm currently documenting what I have done, and intend to display the design up if any one wants to comment on it or take inspiration on what they are doing themselves...
 
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