New Weapon Group

[GroundZero86]

How do I add a new weapon group to the existing list?

We use weapon groups proficiencies in our game, and I've written a feat to grant proficiency to the selected weapon group, however I need also add a couple homebrew groups to the existing PF weapon groups.

 

[AndrewD2]

Pretty sure weapon groups are just tags. Create a new tag on weapon for the weapon group.

 

[GroundZero86]

Pretty sure weapon groups are just tags. Create a new tag on weapon for the weapon group.

I thought so too, I created a new tag for one of the weapons, but the drop-down in my feat didn't contain the new group.

 

[AndrewD2]

What is your expression?

 

[GroundZero86]

In the Select What drop-down for the feat, I'm using Weapon Groups, which produces the following candidate expression:

component.SelectHelp & Selection.WeaponsGrp

For the weapons, I've created a copy of a couple of them and added the following tag to them. I've confirmed the tags are there.

wFtrGroup.Basic

Edit: I'm starting to wonder if I should have just created 20 different feats instead of one with a user selection.

 

[AndrewD2]

Alright, well there's a kinda easy fix ... you need a new selection helper.

This file should cover what you need, but I just made it based on what I've read here.

 

[GroundZero86]

Thanks Andrew for your assistance.

I think the problem I originally experienced was caused by needing to reload Hero Lab and not doing so. After I added the XML you sent me, I ended up with a duplicate "Basic" weapon group.

 

[GroundZero86]

In case anyone else comes across this thread with a similar problem...

For reference the XML from Andrew did the trick. The duplicate I mentioned was actually from the file I downloaded from Andrew. Apparently I copied it into the data folder for reference and forgot to delete it after the XML into my existing user file.

  <thing id="selWGrpBas" name="Basic" compset="SelectHelp">
    <tag group="Selection" tag="WeaponsGrp" name="Weapon Groups" abbrev="Weapon Groups"/>
    <tag group="wFtrGroup" tag="Basic" name="Basic" abbrev="Basic"/>
    </thing>

 

[Frodie]

Cool, can that be done for armor?

 

[AndrewD2]

Like a new class of armor instead of Light, Medium, Heavy?

 

[Frodie]

Yea, like basic armor. I messed around with the above script, but didn't really get anywhere. Just wondering.

 

[AndrewD2]

That script was for making a selection helper to add it to the auto selections when using the fShowCust tags in the editor.

 

[Frodie]

Yea, that's what I thought, NP, just seeing if I could, (thinking out load). Not really needed.