Replacing class skills

[egg_green]

Greetings, all!

My campaign uses a new skill called Sneak instead of the usual Hide and Move Silently. I went into the editor and added the skill, told it to replace kHide, and added the "Hidden" tag to Move Silently. Everything looks great, except for one thing:

My new skill isn't a class skill for anyone! As I understand it, shouldn't using the "replaces" field cause my new Sneak skill to be a class skill for anyone who already had Hide as a class skill? I've tried adding ranks to Rangers, Barbarians, and Rogues, and it seems to be cross-class for all of them.

Is there any way to fix this without having to edit the class helpers for every class?

Thanks a bunch!
--Emmanuel

 

[Colen]

egg_green wrote:
>
>
> Greetings, all!
>
> My campaign uses a new skill called Sneak instead of the usual Hide and
> Move Silently. I went into the editor and added the skill, told it to
> replace kHide, and added the "Hidden" tag to Move Silently. Everything
> looks great, except for one thing:
>
> My new skill isn't a class skill for anyone! As I understand it,
> shouldn't using the "replaces" field cause my new Sneak skill to be a
> class skill for anyone who already had Hide as a class skill? I've tried
> adding ranks to Rangers, Barbarians, and Rogues, and it seems to be
> cross-class for all of them.
>
> Is there any way to fix this without having to edit the class helpers
> for every class?


It should indeed work the way you think. Unfortunately, the replace
mechanism isn't handling this stuff properly. We're working on a fix for
this, but it probably won't make it into the next patch.

Until then, the easiest thing to do is probably to just add an
adjustment to any character who should have Sneak as a class skill.
There should be a "Class Skill" adjustment that will do this.

Hope this helps,

--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development