Item that grants abilities to other items

[Trentyn]

In the editor, I want to make an item (say a ring or amulet) that when equipped grants the Bane ability to any weapon the character carries. How would I do that? I've tried multiple versions of:

foreach pick in hero from BaseWep
    ~Try to assign iBane ability -does not work
    perform eachpick.assign[Ability.iBane]
    perform eachpick.assign[HasAbility.iBane]
    
    ~Separately add the Bane bonuses
    ~Increased attack bonus -works
    #applybonus[atrBonEnh,eachpick,3]
    #applybonus[dmrBonEnh,eachpick,3]
    ~Increased damage dice -does not work
    "plus 2d6 bane" &= eachpick.field[wDamExtra].text
    
    ~perform eachpick.field[wDamExList].modify[+,1,"plus 2d6 bane"]
    ~eachpick.field[wDamExList].matrixtext[3,1] = "plus 2d6 bane"
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How would I do this? Ideally I would want to use the existing ability and just assign it to each weapon.

 

[Aaron]

There is a macro for that. Instead of:

    "plus 2d6 bane" &= eachpick.field[wDamExtra].text
    
    ~perform eachpick.field[wDamExList].modify[+,1,"plus 2d6 bane"]
    ~eachpick.field[wDamExList].matrixtext[3,1] = "plus 2d6 bane"

Try

              #extradamage[eachpick," plus 2d6 bane", field[thingname].text]

 

[ShadowChemosh]

How would I do this? Ideally I would want to use the existing ability and just assign it to each weapon.

Just to be be clear you can't actually do this. Scripts can not actually assign a Thing or Pick to something else.

So Aaron's method is mimicking the bonus from Bane but is not actually going to be giving the Thing iBane to the weapon.

 

[Trentyn]

Try

              #extradamage[eachpick," plus 2d6 bane", field[thingname].text]

Awesome thank you.

Are macros like this documented anywhere? I had to find #applybonus by searching the forums...

 

[AndrewD2]

There are a number in the Pathfinder help files, plus I've got this HERE