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(Drop Dead Studios) Spheres of Power: Official Support Thread

No, he's right. His Tradition feats are being counted against his normal feat count as well.

I've added this to my to-do list for 1.10. In the meantime, I recommend using an Adjustment to clear your feat-count errors.
 
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Apologies! I wasn't looking closely at the screenshot and it was the end of a very busy week. Sleep makes it easier to see things this morning that should have been obvious yesterday.
 
The CL 0 does round up to 1, but then it gets divided in half for calculating save DC, and it's that fraction that gets rounded down to zero (because fractions always round down in Pathfinder unless otherwise stated).

If the DC bonus had a minimum of 1, then a character would have the same save DC on his sphere effects at CL 3 that he had at CL 0/1. I think we can agree that would be pretty strange.
 
chaoscowboy said:
I've converted a certain evil cleric of Norgorber to spheres of power and despite clearly being negative energy channeling, he gains access to the life sphere instead of the death sphere. The class feature is called necromantic focus I believe.
TheIronGolem said:
Reproduced. You should be able to fix this by temporarily removing your deity and changing your alignment to Neutral, then you should be able to pick Positive/Cure or Negative/Inflict which in turn will set your Life/Death choice. I'll try to make this smarter in the next update so that it auto-detects this instead of relying on a selector that may be hidden.
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Just finished looking further into this one. Basically, the positive/negative selector overrides your alignment and deity, even when it's hidden. This applies to the Channel Energy feature from the core files, not to anything SoP-related.

To see what I'm talking about, try creating a vanilla (non-sphere) cleric of neutral alignment and set them to channel negative energy. Then change their alignment to Good and give them a Good deity. You'll see that your Good cleric still channels negative energy as though they were Evil. It works the same way in reverse; you can wind up with an Evil cleric who channels positive energy.

So I'm really powerless to do anything about this, because by definition Necromantic Focus has to look at your channeling choice in order to decide which sphere to bootstrap.

But there's an upside too, in that this means you have an easy (if not intuitive) way to support non-standard channeling.
 
Staves and Wands are in the Magic Items section, just like any standard staff or wand. They're listed as "sphere staff" and "sphere wand", respectively.
 
Update Time!

Core Package Version 1.10 - Released 09/04/2016
  • Classes
    • Hedgewitch Spiritualist Tradition: Fixed error that made talents unselectable
    • Hedgewitch Spiritualist Tradition: Fixed error causing bonus combat feats to be counted against the character's standard feat count
  • Feats
    • Sphere Focus can now be bootstrapped with a SoPSphere.? tag to make it automatically apply to the sphere named in the tag, similar to the Target.? tags on feats like Weapon Focus.
    • Basic Magical Training now disables itself and bootstraps Extra Magic Talent if a spherecasting class is present
    • Counterspell feats now require MSB instead of caster level, as per latest errata
  • Spheres
    • Added "Blast Type Groups" from the Destroyer's Handbook. Blast Type Groups are now used for the Energy Focus drawback and the Favored Element ability, even if you do not possess the Destroyer's Handbook.
    • Blast Type talents are now activated abilities, instead of being selected by the Destructive Blast ability. This allows for multiple blast types to be activated (such as through the Admixture talent)
    • Extended Range now throws an error if taken more than twice
    • Monastic Soul: Now bootstraps Protected Soul instead of Limited Protection, as per latest errata
    • Prepared Casting: Fixed a bug that sometimes caused HL to incorrectly claim the hero had allocated too many points to a particular sphere
    • Prepared Casting: Fixed a bug causing points assigned to a sphere to be "stolen" by other trackers tagged with the same sphere (such as Fount of Life with the Life sphere)
    • Fixed the custom class specials that grant Fate talents (they had been flagged with the Creation sphere)
    • Fixed some range-extending talents that were making their changes too late to be reflected in the talent description text
  • Data File Authoring
    • Added editor controls for easier creation of Blast Type talents
    • Added the "Race Talent Setup" tab to the editor. This is similar to the Class Talent Setup, but is intended for the creation of races that grant spherecasting abilities that scale with racial HD. To add racial spherecasting abilities to a race, bootstrap a Race Talent Setup along with abSoPCast.
  • Misc.
    • Added a "Sphere Handbooks" source group; each handbook's source will appear here once you own the appropriate data package.

Expanded Options Version 1.1 - Released 09/04/2016
  • Fixed some Witch Patrons that were missing the sphere tags that cause them to grant bonus talents

Also, starting with the NEXT round of updates, HL should now detect when updates are available and let you know at startup, like it does with other packages. The reason it hadn't done so in the past is because of some mismatched ID's I put in the .xml files that direct the updates and the .hl files they point to. Thanks to ShadowChemosh for helping me figure that out.
 
Version 1.11 has just been posted. No new content to speak of in this one, it's just a compatibility update for the Destroyer's Handbook (which I have handed off to DDS, so look for that soon!).

The Geomancer's Handbook is now in development.
 
Sphere Cleric error

The sphere cleric is not giving the bonus death sphere for inflict.
 

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catman123456 said:
The sphere cleric is not giving the bonus death sphere for inflict.
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I'm guessing that character is Evil, and his positive/negative selector is set to Positive (even though it's hidden).

There's more information in this post, but the short version is, "I can't fix it, but you can straighten it out by temporarily making the character Neutral and setting their channeling selector to match the Life/Death choice".
 
Ok, one more bug I've found regarding the Necromantic Focus Cleric ability: When selecting additional talents, Hero Lab seems to think that I've already got the Death sphere (for a positive-channeling cleric), and I get access to the Death sphere talents, but not the sphere itself. The problem is reversed when selecting negative energy channeling, with the Life Sphere unavailable, but its talents showing up as available.
 
Replying to myself here... I managed to fix the issue by removing the bootstraps for the spheres from the Necromantic Focus class special and increasing the secondary ability count by 1 in the archetype. This might not quite be RAW, since it allows you to select another Life Talent if you already have the sphere when gaining lvl 1 as cleric, but for a single-class cleric, it seems to work fine.
 
FreeBooter said:
Replying to myself here... I managed to fix the issue by removing the bootstraps for the spheres from the Necromantic Focus class special and increasing the secondary ability count by 1 in the archetype. This might not quite be RAW, since it allows you to select another Life Talent if you already have the sphere when gaining lvl 1 as cleric, but for a single-class cleric, it seems to work fine.
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DDS has confirmed to me that when a class grants a bonus sphere and you already have that sphere before taking levels in that class, you instead gain a bonus talent from that sphere. So if I understand your workaround correctly, it's fine by RAW, single-class or not.

That said, I am working on a new way to handle "bonus" spheres, because this business with bootstrapping the sphere just isn't cutting it.
 
TheIronGolem said:
DDS has confirmed to me that when a class grants a bonus sphere and you already have that sphere before taking levels in that class, you instead gain a bonus talent from that sphere. So if I understand your workaround correctly, it's fine by RAW, single-class or not.

That said, I am working on a new way to handle "bonus" spheres, because this business with bootstrapping the sphere just isn't cutting it.
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Thanks for the quick response! And since the bootstrapping seems to confuse HL's handling of prerequisites in this case, I guess I'll use my workaround for now. I like my evil cleric NPCs to be able to both use death magic and heal their allies. :)

To clarify the solution I used:

1. Create a new data file.
2. Make a new class special, "Necromantic Focus (modified)", created as a copy of "Necromantic Focus" (the SoP one, of course).
3. Remove both bootstraps from the new class special, then save it.
4. Make a new archetype, "Sphere Cleric (modified)", created as a copy of "Sphere Cleric".
5. Change the "Modified secondary ability count" array by increasing the values by 1 at every odd level (including 1).
6. Change the "Necromantic Focus" class special ability to point to the ability created in step 2 instead of the original one.
 
Accessing SOP on iPad

I have been using the SOP files on my Mac, but now want to use them on my iPad. How do I put them onto my iPad, and set them up for Hero Lab to access them?

(I asked Drop Dead, but he didn't know)

Thanks everyone!
 
Quemius said:
I have been using the SOP files on my Mac, but now want to use them on my iPad. How do I put them onto my iPad, and set them up for Hero Lab to access them?

(I asked Drop Dead, but he didn't know)

Thanks everyone!
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You need to get the .hl file onto the iPad. You could email the file to yourself or use dropbox or anything to get it onto the iPad. Once there have HL app open the file which will install it.
 
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