Quaterstaff Finesse

[Zakzahn]

I'm wanting to make a feat that uses Dex instead of Str for attacks with the Quaterstaff ala Weapon Finesse. However when looking at the Weapon Finesse feat as a place to start, it does not appear to have any coding in it at all. Am I missing something?

Zakzahn
Coding Newbie

 

[chava]

Look at the coding for Dervish Dance.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Yep agree with chava as Dervish Dance should get you really close as it affects Scimitars only. So just need a few tweaks to have it affect quarterstaff and not give a bonus on damage based on dex.

The reason their is not really a script on Weapon Finesse is that it sets a Tag on the hero that causes a background program to run. So unfortunately it is not a script. There are several feats that do something similar. Two-Weapon fighting I am pretty sure is another one as is Double Slice.

 

[chava]

Other feats that don't have scripts for reasons similar to Weapon Finesse: Weapon Focus, Greater Weapon Focus, Weapon Specialization....

Which means you sometimes need to get creative when mimic-ing those feats

 

[Zakzahn]

So does this seem right?

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

~figure out the difference between our DEX and STR modifiers (minimum 0, since the feat says "can", not "must")
field[abValue].value += maximum(#attrmod[aDEX] - #attrmod[aSTR], 0)

~ Otherwise, go through to all quaterstaff on the hero and replace their Strength bonuses to Hit with Dex bonuses.
foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where "IsWeapon.wQtrstaff"
eachpick.field[wAttBonus].value += field[abValue].value
nexteach

It seems to work well

 

[Unseelie]

So does this seem right?

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

~figure out the difference between our DEX and STR modifiers (minimum 0, since the feat says "can", not "must")
field[abValue].value += maximum(#attrmod[aDEX] - #attrmod[aSTR], 0)

~ Otherwise, go through to all quaterstaff on the hero and replace their Strength bonuses to Hit with Dex bonuses.
foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where "IsWeapon.wQtrstaff"
eachpick.field[wAttBonus].value += field[abValue].value
nexteach

It seems to work well

How well does that work with two weapon fighting since the Quarterstaff can be used as a dual weapon?

 

[Zakzahn]

"How well does that work with two weapon fighting since the Quarterstaff can be used as a dual weapon?"

Seems to work just fine.

In a bitter twist of irony, I am no longer going to be playing the character that was going to use this. Oh well, will have to pull it out some time in the future.