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Making Feats without the Authoring Kit

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UndeadDan

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I was looking at the possibility of coding my own feats since our current campaign started in 3.5 and converted to Pathfinder.

On the wiki page it said something about being able to create/edit feats within HL and the authoring kit being primarily for creating your own systems.

Of course my players have some of the most egregiously complicated feats: Spellcasting Prodigy, Vow of Poverty, as well as a bunch of Book of Exalted Deeds feats.

Anyway, am I missing the built in editor and it's power or would I need to get the Authoring Kit?

I also have at least one non-PF race and a non-PF weapon that I have to create as well.
 
Purchasing the Authoring Kit will not give you any extra capability to edit parts of an existing game system than the editor for that game system gives you. The Authoring Kit is only for new systems (or for 4ed and Savage Worlds - the example systems built with the Authoring Kit).

The editor is accessible from the Tools Menu...Launch Editor, and after opening it, I'd recommend selecting the first option in the Help menu within the editor - that's the editor manual for the game system you're working on.

Even if you don't own the d20 system, I'd recommend downloading it and running it in demo mode, then look around the d20 folder on this forum for links to the user-created content - I believe most of the feats you're looking for have been added to the d20 files by users. By opening two copies of Hero Lab at the same time - one running Pathfinder and the other running d20, you can load that user content into the d20 copy's editor, and use it as a template to create the same things in the editor of the copy running Pathfinder.
 
Yeah, feel free to pattern your programming after the community files. Vow of poverty was especially painful to figure out how to do.
 
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