Shadow Assassin Again

[Manalishi66]

Ok, I am trying to add the following class special ability. I looked at the bane weapon for scripting help...but could not figure it out. I am trying to add the damage die bonus to the end of the shuriken on the character sheet like Bane weapons do. Description of ability as follows.....

A favored weapon of many shadow assassins, shuriken are not particularly effective as ranged weapons unless they are used to deliver poison. This shadow style instead imbues each shuriken thrown with a bit of solid shadow, increasing the amount of damage done by any shuriken the shadow assassin throws by +1d6. This increases to +2d6 at 6th level, and to +3d6 at 10th level. The additional damage is treated as being normal piercing weapon damage. Thus a 2nd level human shadow assassin deals 1d2+1d6 damage with a shuriken attack.

 

[AndrewD2]

it uses the #extradamage[] macro which done by filling in a few things

#extradamage[hero.childfound[IDofWep], "EXTRA DAMAGE TEXT", field[name].text]

so you would need a script that generates the extra damage text as a string and input in there. What level do they first get this power at?

 

[Aaron]

You'll want to foreach through all Shurikens on the hero and use the #extradamage macro to add that in.

PostLevel 10000

      var extradam as string

      SOME CODE TO DEFINE WHAT AMOUNT OF EXTRA DAMAGE SHOULD BE FOR THIS LEVEL

      ~ If we're not shown, just get out now
      doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)

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

      foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where "IsWeapon.wShuriken"
        #extradamage[eachpick, extradam, field[thingname].text]
        nexteach

 

[Aaron]

Ninjaed. How appropriate.

 

[AndrewD2]

Aaron's way is better as it will cover all Shurikens on the character mine would just randomly select one if there were multiples.

 

[Manalishi66]

It's initially gained at 2nd level and improves at 6th then finally at 10th.

 

[AndrewD2]

so modifying Aaron's code you'd need something like

      var extradam as string

      field[abValue].value += field[xAllLev].value + 2
      field[abValue].value = round(field[abValue].value/4, 0, -1)

      extradam = "+" & field[abValue].value & "d6"

      ~ If we're not shown, just get out now
      doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)

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

      foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where "IsWeapon.wShuriken"
        #extradamage[eachpick, extradam, field[thingname].text]
        nexteach

 

[Manalishi66]

Thanks for the help. This should get me further along.

 

[Aaron]

Andrew, you may want to take a second look at the line where you calculate abValue. You're going to end up with an abValue of 8 at 10th level, rather than 3.

 

[AndrewD2]

Whoops, math is hard! I fixed it in the previous post now.

 

[Manalishi66]

Here is the final working code. Had to do it this was because it's picked like a rogue talent by the shadows assassin at 2nd. Just one of several abilities he can choose from.

var extradam as string

if (#levelcount[SHA] >= 2) then
field[abValue].value += 1
endif
if (#levelcount[SHA] >= 6) then
field[abValue].value += 1
endif
if (#levelcount[SHA] >= 10) then
field[abValue].value += 1
endif

extradam = "+" & field[abValue].value & "d6"

~ If we're not shown, just get out now
doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)

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

foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where "IsWeapon.wShuriken"
#extradamage[eachpick, extradam, field[thingname].text]
nexteach

 

[AndrewD2]

if it's a custom ability you can use the same code I already posted except change xAllLevl to xTotalLev and then it will calculate it without you having to do the if statements.

 

[Manalishi66]

Cool. Good to know. That will save time. Thanks again.