Trying to make scaled Dragonborn breath

[thundershot]

For the life of me, I can't figure out how to turn this into a special ability. I'm terrible at scripting, and I can't find a monster to copy it from. I'm trying to make a 4E Dragonborn in Pathfinder in HL based on someone else's design. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish.


Breath Weapon: Dragonborn can use a breath weapon three times per day. The breath weapon is a line with a range of 5 feet plus 5 feet per Hit Die, to a maximum of 100 feet. It inflicts 1d6 damage plus 1d6 per 3 HD the Dragonborn possesses. This damage may be acid, cold, electricity, or fire; the specific type is chosen at creation and cannot be changed afterward.


Thanks
Chris

 

[Mathias]

Try looking at the Breath weapon that's used by the half-dragon template - that gains 1d6/HD, rather than 1d6/3HD, but everything else sounds the same.

 

[thundershot]

Okay, I tried that, but I'm not sure which fields to alter in the script. I tried changing something and it gives me errors. Here's the field:



var energy as string
energy = "(energy)"
if (root.tagcount[BloodEner.?] <> 0) then
energy = root.tagnames[BloodEner.?]
endif

~our value is our total HD - our class levels
field[abValue].value += herofield[tHitDice].value - herofield[tLevel].value
if (field[abValue].value <= 0) then
perform assign[Helper.SpcDisable]
endif

field[abSumm].text = field[trkMax].value & "/day, Breath Weapon deals " & field[abValue].value & "d6 " & energy & " damage, DC "& field[abDC].value & "."





And then the other is here:


var HD as number
HD = herofield[tHitDice].value - herofield[tLevel].value
field[abDC].value += 10 + round(HD / 2,0,-1) + hero.child[aCON].field[aModBonus].value



I can see that I need to make it so that the total character level affects it instead of just racial HD, but I tried removing that little part and it errored on me.

 

[Mathias]

Would you mind posting the change you made - show me exactly what differs between the original and the new version? That would help me diagnose the error you've run into.

 

[thundershot]

var energy as string
energy = "(energy)"
if (root.tagcount[BloodEner.?] <> 0) then
energy = root.tagnames[BloodEner.?]
endif

~our value is our total HD - our class levels
field[abValue].value += herofield[tHitDice].value
if (field[abValue].value <= 0) then
perform assign[Helper.SpcDisable]
endif

field[abSumm].text = field[trkMax].value & "/day, Breath Weapon deals " & field[abValue].value & "d6 " & energy & " damage, DC "& field[abDC].value & "."



and the DC one



var HD as number
HD = herofield[tHitDice].value
field[abDC].value += 10 + round(HD / 2,0,-1) + hero.child[aCON].field[aModBonus].value



the DC is working. What I have a problem with is getting the program to actually put the true damage to the breath weapon on the sheet instead of "1d6 every 3 levels". Maybe if it was in the attacks section...

Also, I can't seem to find where to put which energy type the PC chooses.