New Game System:Fantasy Craft

[royalfa]

I am creating the data sets for this game system Fantasy Craft but have a lot of questions (non of them solved by the help).

Nevertheless with that help, the savage example, the editor tool and the dat files I have a good idea about how to proceed.

I have a question about this error I encounter (an one other thing):

I copy this from 4e data set:

<thing
id="trLevel"
name="Level"
compset="Trait"
isunique="yes">
<fieldval field="trtAbbrev" value="Level"/>
<tag group="explicit" tag="5"/>
<tag group="User" tag="BasicsNarr"/>

<!-- Calculate the Level trait as appropriate -->
<eval index="1" phase="Traits" priority="4000">
<before name="Derived trtFinal"/>
<after name="Calc trtFinal"/><![CDATA[
field[trtBonus].value = #level[]
]]></eval>
</thing>

When I try to load the system have an error message about the eval script:

Error in right-side expression of assignment

I assume this refers to the "#Level[]" but I search every dat file for this definition and can't find it!!

I will appreciate any help, guide, hint whatever to solve this....
Or let me know how I can put in the basics tab the bonus of each attribute as in the d20 3.5 system.

Thanks in advance
Roy

 

[Mathias]

Macros (the things that start with #) are defined in definition.def.

 

[royalfa]

Thanks Matias!!

I complete forgot that!!

 

[royalfa]

New Questions

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Took me a couple of hours but at last I figure it out the next two errors I have in the file:

No Group Level Defined

(Need to create a Group named Level in Tags.1st)

And

eval calls a non existing procedure...

Create the procedure in the procedure file...

My files compile and do the correct math of "point buy" attributes.

Now I have two more questions:

1. How/Where can I have a fixed amount of Character Points?, not a choice
   
2. What I need to do to display the "bonus" the character has for each attribute?

I know that must change the tab_basics but don't understand quite well his management.

Thanks in advance
Roy

 

[Mathias]

Here's the page that describes how Savage Worlds builds the attribute points and skil points pools that it uses instead of a unified character points mechanic: http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5/Character_Creation_Logic_(Savage)

 

[royalfa]

Thanks again Mathias, the link you post is empty but I find what I need and fix both things.

Now I have a trouble:

I create a thing_savingthrows.dat with the Def, Fort, Dex and Will things.

<thing
id="vDef"
name="Defense"
compset="Save">
<fieldval field="vOutName" value="DEFENSE"/>
<fieldval field="vAbbr" value="Def"/>
<fieldval field="vAttrName" value="(DEXTERITY)"/>
<tag group="explicit" tag="5"/>
<link linkage="LinkAttr" thing="attrDex"/>
</thing>

And then in the traits.str I construct the component Save

<component
id="Save"
name="Save"
autocompset="no">

<!-- Bonus from ability scores -->
<field
id="defAbility"
name="Ability Bonus"
type="derived"
maxfinal="25">
<calculate phase="Traits" priority="20000" name="Calc defAbility">
<before name="Derived trtFinal"/>
<after name="Calc attrBonus"/><![CDATA[

perform linkage[LinkAttr].setfocus
~set our value and modify our bonus
@value = focus.field[attrBonus].value
perform field[trtBonus].modify[+,@value,focus.field[name].text]
]]></calculate>
<finalize><![CDATA[
@text = signed(@value)
]]></finalize>
</field>
</component>

But when I try to refer to the linkage HL send me an error message

non-existent linkage "LinkAttr" used by script

Really I look for everywhere and don'f find how to fix this.

 

[royalfa]

Help please with linkage.

Thanks

 

[Mathias]

Linkages are defined as part of a component. In the skeleton files, the example you can look up is in the skills component - each skill uses a linkage to tie it to a specific attribute.

 

[talsharien]

Did you ever get this up and running?