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Houserule for saves

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Rysor

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Hello, I am new to Hero Lab, just purchased it today as well as most of the modules. I have done a couple custom items and traits today playing with the editor. In our games we have a house-rule for saves where we use the better of two stats, Str/Con for Fort, Dex/Int for Reflex, Wis/Cha for Will. We also use a straight +2 to the good saves of the class at lvl 1 and then a +1 to all saves every 3 levels after that. Does anyone have any suggestions for scripting this as an optional way of calculating stats?

I appreciate any thoughts!
 
Ok, so I would need to add an adjustment for each save on each of my characters as well as npc's I create for the game I am going to be running. Calculate the correct save for the house-rule and what HL shows and create an adjustment for the difference, which I would update each level. I guess it wouldn't be too bad once I have the correct script written to do that, as I would just have to copy and paste the script each time and modify the value. I am not very familiar with the syntax for the editor but would I need to do something like-

#applybonus [hero.child[svFort], field[pAdjust1].value]
#applybonus [hero.child[svWill], field[pAdjust2].value]
#applybonus [hero.child[svRef], field[pAdjust3].value]

and then create 3 fields one for pAdjust1, pAdjust2, pAdjust3 with the correct values to bring the saves to what they should be for the house rule? Please forgive me for being a newb with this.

I would like to find a less manual solution, but getting something to work at all would be good.
 
Couldn't this be done with a mechanic? The scripts would be similar above but would not require manual intervention.
 
I would love if it could be done as a mechanic. Is anyone familiar with the script for it that could help me? I have only had hero lab a few days and do not know where to begin and what scripts would be needed for something like this.
 
I have a working mechanic for this making several assumptions because I don't know his house rule exactly.

The +1 / 3 levels applies only to classes and not racial hit dice or templates.
The +2 base save bonus applies to all base/core classes and not to monster HD or prestige classes or templates.
The best ability bonus pick applies to all creatures.

Is this all correct Rysor?
 
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