Racial favored terrain

[frumple]

I have a race that gets an ability in favored terrain (like the ranger ability, but just a single bonus to AC). Is the list of favored terrains available to be selected from via. a racial special, or will I have to make a special menu for it?

 

[chiefweasel]

if you create a new class for the character, its on the main class page in the editor.

 

[frumple]

It is not for a class. It is for a race. Specifically it is racial special that grants the race a +2 dodge AC in its favored terrain (chosen from the ranger list).

I have been trying to modify the scripts from the Boots of Favored Terrain to get what I need, but I am only part of the way there. I cannot get an additional text box to pop up for the user specified terrains (such as aligned planes).

 

[Aaron]

What are you putting into your candidate expression?

 

[frumple]

In the racial special I am using the custom expression: component.BaseCustUs & Helper.Secondary

This generates the correct list of favored terrains.

For my script I have cribed the following form Boots of Favored terrain:

~ Post-levels 19000

doneif (field[usrChosen1].ischosen = 0)
      
      var sourcename as string

      if (field[usrChosen1].chosen.tagis[User.NeedDomain] <> 0) then
        perform assign[User.NeedDomain]
        perform assign[User.OptDomain]
        perform assign[User.NoAutoName]
        field[livename].text = field[name].text & " (" & lowercase(field[domDomain].text) & ")"
        field[shortname].text = field[livename].text
        sourcename = lowercase(field[domDomain].text)
      else
        field[livename].text = field[name].text & " (" & lowercase(field[usrChosen1].chosen.field[shortname].text) & ")"
        sourcename = lowercase(field[usrChosen1].chosen.field[shortname].text)
        endif

#situational[hero.child[ArmorClass],"+2 dodge AC in " & sourcename & " environment",field[name].text]

I think I am almost there. I cannot get the special to open up a new text field for the under to enter a specific terrain for those ranger terrains that need it (such as aligned planes).

 

[Aaron]

Assign User.NeedDomain to the racial special if one of the aligned planes (or whichever others) is selected.

 

[frumple]

I thought I was doing that in the if statement

if (field[usrChosen1].chosen.tagis[User.NeedDomain] <> 0) then
  perform assign[User.NeedDomain]
  perform assign[User.OptDomain]
  perform assign[User.NoAutoName]

{more code}

 

[Aaron]

Hrm, let me check if racial specials aren't showing user edit fields.

 

[Aaron]

Yeah, looks like that's the problem. Not really a bug, since I think this is the first time I've run across an ability that needed this function, but I'll get on it for next month's release. Sorry to make you wait, frumple.

 

[frumple]

No problem. Thanks for the help!

 

[Aaron]

I discovered another thing to improve while working on this frumple, it looks like previously you couldn't have more than one type of non-name thing per a racial special. That is, you could have a checkbox, an array menu, or a primary and secondary selector, but not a combination of those. So I had to adjust that as well, since you need a selector (to choose the terrain) and then a user text box for further notes.

 

[frumple]

Awesome!