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Trying to convert pathfinder starwars mod, attribute problem.

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Tysoe

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I've been looking at joining a group playing a Star Wars modified Pathfinder game. I love using Hero Lab and thought I could modify the Pathfinder licence with the authoring kit to incorporate the changes.

I have come up with one limitation I'm not sure I can get around. The Star Wars pathfinder has an extra 7th ability score. I'm willing to purchase the Authoring Tool but reading the forums it looks like the Pathfinder sources I would need to change are closed source and I wouldn't be able to modify them but would have to rewrite the whole Pathfinder system instead.

Is there any way to add a 7th ability score to my pathfinder license?
 
the authoring kit is very basic and you would need to cveate the scripts for everything you do. the editor allows you to modify an existing system, so you could use Pathfinder for a mondern world, but still using the PF basics.

for a new ability you would need to use the authoring kit but i think you might find that it would require a massive amount of input to build a whole system in it. i beleive Frodie used the authoring kit for a Modern setting. so you might want to send him a private message and talk to him about it.
 
No, there are so many things that need to alter or look up attributes, that the existing list is effectively hard coded.

I'm afraid that in order to accomplish that you would need to start from the authoring kit's skeleton files and re-build the entire Pathfinder system.
 
Ah ok, that's what I feared. My coding abilities and time are too limited to start a new system from scratch. Thanks for clearing that up.

Since it's a new group and we haven't played enough to know for sure it's a keeper I'll try updating that ability separately on paper and look into game system creation in more detail later. I can do almost everything else with the Tools/ .user editor so hopefully not a total loss :)
 
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