Issue with special racial trait

[terraleon]

So I've created a skill, Craft Clockwork.

I have a race with a racial special which gives a bonus to this skill and to Intimidate.

I've got the special in the race, and it's giving the bonus to intimidate, but not Craft Clockwork.

I've added the Eval Script to the special, duplicating the Intimidate one:

doneif (tagis[Helper.SpcDisable] <> 0)

#skillbonus[skCraftClo] += 2

But the bonus doesn't show up. Any thoughts? The skill is there, and I've entered a temporary bonus for now to make it work on the sheet, but I'd like to get the special to work.

Thanks!

 

[Mathias]

What phase & priority did you give your Eval Script?

You're certain skCraftClo is the Id you gave the Craft (clockwork) skill you created? You've checked the capitalization, as well as the spelling?

 

[terraleon]

Positive. I've used c/p to ensure no transcription error of the skill name. The skill shows up in the listing as it should, and a manual adjustment (on that tab) of it does put the bonus there.

The script has a priority of 100 and phase of "First."

 

[ShadowChemosh]

The script has a priority of 100 and phase of "First."

I have very few scripts that run that early. I would advise changing it to "Pre-Levels 10,000". That is where most of the Skill bonus scripts all run.

 

[terraleon]

I have very few scripts that run that early. I would advise changing it to "Pre-Levels 10,000". That is where most of the Skill bonus scripts all run.

Why? What does that do?

It works now...so that's good, but I obviously need to read a lot more.

thanks!

 

[Aaron]

Hero lab runs scripts in an order, some things have to happen before others. For example, any ability that calculates DC based on an attribute, has to do that after the attributes are set. For that reason, the Phase and Priority of a script are very important.