How To: Edge Adds Special Statted Ally

[tatteredking]

Setting: RunePunk
Edge: any of the Arcane Companion Edges

There are several Edges in RunePunk which grant a special ally, with a special statblock. Is there a way to code this, that when the Edge is taken, it automatically adds an ally with a specific stat block, and specific abilities?

 

[CapedCrusader]

Define "special statblock"...

Is this Ally a creature or a person? If you created it as a creature in the Editor, you could then add an ally, switch to the ally character in Hero Lab, then go to the configure window and change it from NPC to Creature, and then go to the main window and change to the creature type you created. That might get you what you want.

 

[tatteredking]

let me try that

that works.

 

[tatteredking]

OK getting back to this project after a while and trying to figure out where I was.

2 questions.

1) To take this certain ally (Demon Servant), one needs to first have the Arcane Servant: Demon Edge. How do I code it so you can't take the Ally without that edge? I've never really worked with Parent/Child relationships in HeroLab.

2) The demon servant starts with one demonic ability, which I have coded on the Racial Ability table. They all begin with abRPDA. I am attempting to have a warning come up stating that you need one demonic ability, and to have it clear when you take one. I have tried the following as an expr-req

hero.tagis[Ability.abRPDA?]<>0

As I mentioned, limited understanding of Parent/Child relationships in HeroLab, and am wondering if that is coming into play here. Is the code above stating that the Parent needs to have a Demonic Ability? I'm not sure how to get this to clear.

FURTHERMORE....the demonic abilities available to the Demon Servant are based on the Parent's rank.