Non-Spellcaster needs caster levels

[Frodie]

Ok, trying to make a class special ability (for a non-spellcaster) count his hit dice as caster levels.

herofield[tHitDice].value = field[tMaxCaster].value

Basically, I am trying to give access to the craft magic item feats.

 

[AndrewD2]

The Master Craftsman feat does it with skill ranks, maybe there's something in there

 

[Frodie]

yea this is the Master Crafter script. I need to pick through it and see how to replace skill ranks for hit dice.



~ If we're disabled, do nothing
doneif (tagis[Helper.FtDisable] <> 0)

~ set our focus to the selected pick
call fTargetFoc
doneif (state.isfocus = 0)

~ Add 2 to our chosen skill
focus.field[Bonus].value += 2

~ set the hero's master craftsman total to the ranks in our chosen skill
~ item creation feats can look for this value to figure out whether they're valid
herofield[tMastCraft].value += focus.field[skUser].value + focus.field[skInnate].value + focus.field[skExtRanks].value

~ Assign a tag so we know we've taken master craftsman
perform focus.assign[Broadcast.MastCraft]

 

[Frodie]

IDK, it's beyond me, anyone have any ideas?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Yikes so their are 2 different methods that HL uses to figure out caster level on the Craft Feats. tMaxCaster and it counts tags. So the below script does set all both for you.

Post-Levels/5000

~if we're not shown, just get out now
doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)

~ Now set the Max Caster Level
herofield[tMaxCaster].value += herofield[tHitDice].value
~ Now set Caster Tags.
var iX as number
~Add number of tags here
for iX = 1 to herofield[tHitDice].value
  perform hero.assign[Hero.Caster]
next

 

[Frodie]

Thank you!!!! Works Great!!! It gave me a headache last night, lol

Thanks again!

 

[ShadowChemosh]

No problem. Yea it took me a bit to work out also. Had to take apart each craft feat as they each do stuff a little different. Then had to figure out that anything going into tMaxCaster also goes into tMastCraft. Once I saw it doing that I was finally able to make the script work for all craft feats.

I do think "Craft Construct" should look at "tMaxCaster" also instead of counting tags....