Progressive Darkvision

[AndrewD2]

I've got a class (archetype) ability that grants darkvision 60 or extends existing darkvision by 30 feet starting at 2nd level, and then at 6th, 10th, 14th, & 18th levels increases it by 30.

I created 5 class specials, each bootstrapping raDarkVis setting the Value on the first to 60 and the abValue2 to 30. Then the rest are just have the abValue2 set to 30 for the increases. For some reason whenever I add 6 levels of the class it jumps from 60 to 120 and then continues adding 30 at the appropriate levels.

I have the bootstrap conditions set as count:Classes.Bard >= (insert level) at First 500.

I can't for the life of me figure out why it's adding 60 at level 6 instead of just adding 30. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Andrew

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Darkvision default is 60ft. So by setting the first bootstrap to 60 its adding 60 + 60 to get 120....

 

[AndrewD2]

not setting that to 60 and just setting the abValue2 to 30 has nothing happening at 6 level and it staying at 60, and then going up to 90 at 10th level, 120 at 14th and 150 at 18th

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Its a bug on the Darkvision Thing itself from what I can tell. The 30 in the abValue2 is being added from the one at level 2 and level 6 giving a bonus of 60 plus the base amount of 60 and giving 120. The first 30 should be ignored actually as its set to 60.

The bigger issues are things like Half-Orc does a bootstrap with no value and assumes it will get at least 60....

Spent an hour trying to find a fix and I have to admit I am close but have not found the fix yet. Its really advanced the way that these have a half dozen raDarkVis on a character and its trying to add itself up...

 

[AndrewD2]

Yeah what I ended up doing was doing was adding a SpecSource tag to the raDarkVis bootstrap and then doing a findchild and manually changing the abValue and abValue2 based on the level. It seems to work.