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New skills replacing old SRD skills

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fugue27

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Can someone give me advice or point to the correct instructions on how to do this in Hero Lab:

I want to either 1)replace most of the skills by changing their names (and making them all class skills) and deleting others or 2)delete every SRD skill and make my own ones from scratch.

I have successfully added new skills but then I cannot get rid of the old SRD ones! When I right click on them, the option to delete or rename is greyed out and I cannot select it!

Please email at fugue27@animail.net or post here if you can help or point me to the correct documentation!

Thanks!
 
The "Replaces Thing ID" field on the middle right of the editor doesn't do what you need? Or are the replacements not one-for-one?

The problem with deleting the skills is the number of things trying to look them up - consider the case of deleting the Ride skill - off the top of my head, there's a feat tree (Mounted Combat) that would fail to compile because its pre-req target doesn't even exist anymore.
 
No, not one-for-one. There are a few that remain the same (ride, concentration, heal) but the rest are renamed, consolidated (spot and listen become Perception, etc), or just deleted (crafts, use rope, professions, etc).

I will check out the Replaces Thing ID field and work on it some more. I have no coding knowledge so I just try things and see if they work! Thanks for the help!
 
If you want to make wholesale changes like this, it's easiest to simply hide all the old skills (and feats etc that reference them) and create all-new ones that are marked as class skills for the appropriate classes. That way you can start from scratch, and not worry about chasing down every tendril of the old behavior.

You can hide skills and feats using the "hidden" element, as described here:

http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5/Hidden_Element_(Data)
 
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