Picking a ruleset to start modding from?

[cscase]

Hey all,
I'm looking at making my first ruleset, and I wanted to ask for your advice on choosing a starting point. Have done some reading and tinkering and I think I'm to the point where I need to just jump in and start trying stuff.

But what I'm a little unsure of is what ruleset, if any, I ought to start from as a base. The character sheet I want to build is very simple, 2-3 tabs max without very many kinds of data. However, I would like to be able to eventually take advantage of the latest features that are available to newer rulesets, even if my first iteration is pretty basic. I have seen the Generic Ruleset and it looks like it might be a good beginning, but I also notice it's older than the latest rulesets. Is that a big deal?

One thing I am especially interested in doing is having the chat box be resizable. If I started with an older ruleset, how tough would it be for me to add that? Is that a matter of pasting some code over, or something a lot more tedious?

Thanks for your thoughts and advice!

[Trenloe]

I briefly discuss some of this in the second section of past #2 in this thread: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19018

I've also put together a top level info thread for modifying the 3.5e ruleset: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19033 Even if you're not interested in 3.5e/Pathfinder the thread still has a lot of info that can be used for most rulesets.

You probably could bring the resizable chat window into any ruleset by identifying the XML frame/class definitions used in 3.5e and the associated LUA code and copying that into your chosen ruleset. You may need to adjust the graphics used to make the chatbox resizeable too.

[cscase]

Thanks, Trenloe! I will check these links out. And thanks as well for your insight on the matter of freeing the chatbox!

[Valarian]

The Foundation Core is a good base to start from:
https://github.com/joshuha/Fantasy-Grounds-foundations-core

Click on the Download Zip