New Attribute Needed for Birthright setting

[sinister]

I'm running a pathfinder game in the Birthright Campaign Setting. Along with the 6 stats for STR, DEX, ext... I need a stat for Bloodline. Anyway of adding that?

Thanks a bunch.

 

[Mathias]

You'll need to give me more information about how this stat works. Is it exactly like an attribute - same calculations for the bonus, attribute cost integrated into the point-buy system, skills based off it, etc.?

 

[sinister]

It's just like the other attirbutes in terms of its bonus and how it is generated. Its modifier is used to resist (or add to the roll) when using blood abilities (like a save throw) and the total score tells you how many special blood ability powers you get. Doesn't need to be part of the point buy since I'm having characters roll stats.

I guess I'll need to enter blood abilities as special abilties too.

 

[Mathias]

I was hoping it was more of a special stat than a 7th attribute. I'm afraid the Pathfinder files assume exactly 6 attributes in too many places for another to be added.

You can probably create it as an Ability, then bootstrap it from the template or whatever else grants a character access to this attribute.

On the Ability tab in the editor, you'll find a "Choose Amount of Activation" checkbox, and below that, fields for the minimum and maximum. You could use that to let the user set the attribute score, and then in a script on the Ability, you can convert that score to its bonus.

 

[Frodie]

What would the script say? BTW - Is there like a list of scripts?

 

[Mathias]

I need to hear more about what's done with the Bloodline stat before I can write the script for it.

There's no list of scripts, but you can see quite a lot of them by opening various examples in the editor - think of something that does a similar operation to what you want, and look at how it accomplishes the task.