Forlarren spell-like ability

[CorzatTheGray]

So the Forlarren from Bestiary 2 has a few options for its spell-like ability. The way that the Bestiary words it is that most cases manifest as heat metal but can also choose from the list of chill metal, flame blade, flaming sphere, gust of wind, summon swarm, or warp wood.

HL only lists the Forlarren as having heat metal. I was wondering if it were possible to be able to make the selection once the race was chosen rather than my sloppy work around by copying the race and changing the spell-like to summon swarm.

I needed this for a module and hacked it together, but I want to do it right as well.

I haven't had a chance to look wrack my brain to remember if there is any other race that allows selection of racial spell-like abilities to look into either.

I almost want to say that it should work a little like how humans are able to select their racial ability bonus, but will need to look into that.

So how would I go about getting the racial spell-like ability to be selected on the Background tab?

 

[Aaron]

Probably the best way would to be to create a racial special with a selector among the small list of spells. Have that racial special bootstrap all spells on the list with mutually exclusive bootstrap conditions. Then put an eval script on the special that, based on the spell chosen by the selector, fulfills one of the bootstrap conditions but none of the others.

 

[CorzatTheGray]

Thanks Aaron!
I'll feel my way through all that when I have the time...
Still prepping for the run through of the module!