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Save more than one set of "Hero Settings"

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Xorez

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Hello,

is there a way to save more than one set of "Hero Settings"?
Is there also a way to update "Hero Settings" for an entire Portfolio?

Thanks for your help.
 
I have been trying to work this out as well. I am using the Auto Bonus rules from Unchained but want them to apply to PC's only. It would be very useful if I could set this in the menus somewhere.
 
The only way I have found to do this with out coping the game system is to set up template portfolio's. I just setup the settings and then save the portfolio with those settings and name it as player characters or Player only and one that says NPC's only or something along those lines. Then all I do is open that portfolio and then save the portfolio as my characters name and the template stays clean for next use. I don't know if there is a better way but it does work pretty well. Hope this helps a little.
 
*Ninja'd*

I have a created a hero with the settings that my GM wants for his "house rules". Then whenever I start a new PC, I copy that empty one to a new portfolio and work from there.

I don't know of a way to modify a bunch of portfolios from within HL, but I'm pretty new to HL overall. It would be pretty easy to do from the standpoint of editing the XML directly assuming you had access to a tool like sed, Python, or Perl. (Otherwise, you could use an XSLT, but that's a chore.)
 
In the Tools menu, you can use "Duplicate Game System" to create a copy of Pathfinder. Each copy can have different default settings, and can have different sets of added-on files installed.
 
Mathias said:
In the Tools menu, you can use "Duplicate Game System" to create a copy of Pathfinder. Each copy can have different default settings, and can have different sets of added-on files installed.
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Okay i hoped i just missed something as it doesn't seem unusual to have different sets of houserules for every group.

If i duplicate the game system and buy the data pack from a new book, will this also be available in the duplicate?
 
Azhrei said:
*Ninja'd*

I have a created a hero with the settings that my GM wants for his "house rules". Then whenever I start a new PC, I copy that empty one to a new portfolio and work from there.

I don't know of a way to modify a bunch of portfolios from within HL, but I'm pretty new to HL overall. It would be pretty easy to do from the standpoint of editing the XML directly assuming you had access to a tool like sed, Python, or Perl. (Otherwise, you could use an XSLT, but that's a chore.)
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Thanks for your reply, i didn't know that portfolios are just xml files. i might give it a try.
 
jbearwillis said:
The only way I have found to do this with out coping the game system is to set up template portfolio's. I just setup the settings and then save the portfolio with those settings and name it as player characters or Player only and one that says NPC's only or something along those lines. Then all I do is open that portfolio and then save the portfolio as my characters name and the template stays clean for next use. I don't know if there is a better way but it does work pretty well. Hope this helps a little.
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Thanks for your reply, in my case this doesn't help as i am the gm and want to manage the player party with HL. But since i have 5 groups with different people and therefore a different set of rules its sometimes a bit inconvenient to manage applied rules by character with only one set of defaults.
If you could set a default by portfolio or have different named sets it would be a lot easier.
 
Actually, I think Matthias' suggestion of duplicating the game system is your best solution. It would also allow separate house rules for each group, should that be necessary. For example, I'm thinking of APs like Curse of the Crimson Throne that had a lot of material for the GM to use that the players didn't have access to, but even if the GM did use it, they wouldn't necessarily want that stuff to "bleed over" into any other campaigns they were running...

YMMV.
 
jbearwillis said:
The only way I have found to do this with out coping the game system is to set up template portfolio's. I just setup the settings and then save the portfolio with those settings and name it as player characters or Player only and one that says NPC's only or something along those lines. Then all I do is open that portfolio and then save the portfolio as my characters name and the template stays clean for next use. I don't know if there is a better way but it does work pretty well. Hope this helps a little.
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That will work for what I am doing, set a PC, NPC and Monster Template up and then use each of them when I build different things.

Thanks
 
Just to add to this thread a little. The "template" .por file that holds all the right settings for a specific campaign is what I give to my players. At the start of a new campaign I set which books or "houserules" are in affect for this campaign or game I plan to run. I email to all the players and they have an easy way to start characters with all the right books and options selected.

The only thing you have to be careful of is that HL automatically turns on "books" when a new license is activated. If a player gets a new set of Licenses those will turn on for the existing character. That is something to keep in mind about these "template" .por files. You get new books and suddenly those book will be available for your template.por file. :(
 
Yeah, but you're sooooooo good at this HL scripting stuff, you probably have some bootstrap scripts that automatically change the configuration!

:D
 
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