Hello I'm trying to figure out some effect coding. I'm trying to Ignore 2 point of damage received from each attack and raise Fort saves one die higher on the die chain. For the Ignores 2 point of damage I attempted to use DR but it appeared that it would only stop the first 2 damage received. For the die increase of the fort save I was able to use "DIESAV:1" to raise all the saves, but could not figure out how to make it effect Fort only.
Hi Boobrother,
Thanks for the question... To raise only your Fort saves, use the effect 'DIESAV:1 fortitude'. That works for attacks (melee or ranged) or abilities (strength, agility, etc.) also - for example, 'DIEATK:1 melee' raises the action die for melee attacks only. The same goes for numerical modifiers (i.e. 'SAVE: 2 fortitude' for +2 bonus to fortitude saves).
Can you clarify what you want the damage reduction to do? Is the NPC dealing damage more than once on its turn and only the first damage is being ignored? It's possible that FG cannot do what you need, but I want to make sure I understand the question first. Post more details for me if you can...
Thanks!
Leo
The effect is for a 3rd party Drunken Monk class. When drunk they get the following effects: "When under the effects of alcohol a drunken monk ignores 2 point of damage and makes all attack and physical rolls (including Fort saves) at a d24". I read it as each time they are attacked they reduce the damage taken by 2. Thanks in advance. On facebook people were talking about the advantages of different VTT programs, I listed your assistance, availability, and continual feature upgrades as a major selling point of DCC Fantasy Grounds!
I appreciate that Boobrother!Quote:
Originally Posted by Boobrother
I feel like DR:2 should work for that, but I will check it out. I did recently update the damage script so maybe something is off. Certainly the intention is for that effect to do what you’re asking.
The "reflex", "fortitude", and "willpower" designators do not seem to be working with SAVE or DIESAV; on either platform FGC or FGU. I know they were working before. In fact I am getting script errors when using any of these designators with an effect. Script execution error: [string "scripts/manager_string.lua"]:81: attempt to get length of local 'set' (a nil value)
I fixed the DR issue. It wasn’t applying when the damage was higher than the DR value. The update will hit the Test channel this Tuesday or next and then Live the Tuesday after that.
I updated the save script to fix the DC bug with Luck checks and get the party sheet saves working. The changes were not much, so I’m sure it’s a simple fix.
Thanks for the bug reports...
Just a side comment... Damage reduction for DCC isn’t really addressed in the core rules to my knowledge. As I recall, it’s mentioned in the mummy NPC stats and description, but it’s unclear if it functions like 3.5E rules. I have implemented it as a straight damage adjustment without the nuances of 3.5E DR. If anyone has a different understanding of this, let me know!
I submitted a fix for the script error generated by typed modifiers in effects bonuses (i.e. SAVE:2 fortitude). The normal testing process takes a couple weeks before you will see this in the Live version, but you can get this in the Test channel sooner - I'm guessing next Tuesday for Test, and 10/6 for Live.
Hello Leozelig! I hope you are doing well during these crazy times!! I just want to thank you for all of your hard work on DCC. Its awesome and totally appreciated!
I have a wizard that gets to use a D30 roll when casting one of his spells. So, when cast normally (with the spell roll using a d20), everything works as it should. The spell effect comes into the dialouge box and everything! Its awesome. However, for that particular spell, when we hit the +2 die, then cast the spell from the tab under his spells, the die roll works no problem (a D30 result comes up). However, none of the spell effects come into the dialouge box. I also tried to change the actual spell 'die' for that spell to d30 on the PC sheet. I was not able to do that. At least, i couldnt figure that out? Maybe if I did that it would work as intended? Not sure. Either way, it would be good if we could see the spell effects with changes in the dice chain whether down or up if you get what i am saying?
I hope I have been clear enough and you get what I mean? If not, please let me know and Ill try and explain differently.
Cheers,
ryan
DMrabs, I tested this in live Unity. The +2d button did not produce a chat display from the spell table. However, when I went in and changed the die on the character sheet it worked properly. The way you change the spellcheck die manually follows:
1) On the Actions Tab of the Character sheet open the spell details by clicking on the 'magnifying glass' at the end of the spell entry; this lists out the cast action and spell effects individually.
2) Click on the 'magnifying glass' at the end of the Cast/Save entry; this opens a SPELL/ABILITY CHECK window that details the CHECK/SAVE/ON SAVE information.
3) Right click the 'Dice' field on CHECK and use the radial menu to "Clear Dice".
4) Drag and Drop the d30 die into the 'Dice' field and you're all good to go.
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Hope this helps.
Tab
Bug Report: Using FG Unity and FG Classic; with the DCC RPG Annual "specialty" cleric (such as Cleric of Shul), when dragging and dropping level advancement the 'Attack' field and 'Spellcheck' field do not update properly and I get the following error.
"Script execution error: [string "campaign/scripts/manager_char.lua"]:1336: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil)
It works properly for the standard cleric from the Core rulebook.
Tab!! Thank you SO much! Im such a rookie. its ridiculous actually. I followed what you did and it now works perfectly. Thank you again! Sorry for wasting peeps time with this one. Cheers, Ryan
It's all good man, I learn new things about FG and specific rulesets continuously. The questions you ask may be the same one someone else has.
I have several one-shot games using the DCC RPG ruleset for an online convention hosted by Goodman Games next weekend, October 17 & 18! There is a small fee for attending the convention $5 for a badge and $4 per game. Not many games are available on Fantasy Grounds. See my listed games here: https://tabletop.events/conventions/...query=Tabarkus
How did the games go, Tabarkus? It looked like you were able to mostly fill your games. I had a full table for Shadow Under Devil's Reef on Friday night, but then I only had 2 players sign up for Blood for the Serpent King on Sunday so we cancelled. I also played in the DCC Open Tournament (Return to the Starless Sea) and a playtest game with Michael Curtis, and those were tons of fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tabarkus
Also, thanks for helping with DMrabs' question. I'll have to check on why the casting table results don't show with the dice swap desktop button. I usually get an email when someone posts but not this time, and I have been busy the last few weeks so I missed that post.
I assume your DCC Annual bug occurred after I submitted my update a few weeks ago, but I will check on that.
I picked up a few minor bugs myself, so I will knock these out soon:
* Backstab attack for blowgun generates script error when item dropped to inventory
* Item 'Hammer, small' in Equipment table (Table 3-4) links to hammer weapon (from Trained Weapon column in Occupations table)
* Formatting issue for 'Patron Bond' casting table
* Skill die for 'Cast spell from scroll' not adding to thief skills on class drop
I should have another round of updates out soon. I am a little backed up with new features, but feel free to make suggestions if you have them...
I had originally scheduled 4 games; two of those didn't pan out so I cancelled them. It's a tough call on whether to leave a game up hoping on last minute players. But the two games I ran went very well, good strong group that ran well together. And the games I cancelled allowed me to join two as a player including Blood for the Serpent King which was a ton of fun.
Looking forward to the upcoming updates!
I expect to submit an update this week, which includes a bunch of minor updates and bug fixes.
Here is a partial list:
- Crit and fumble roll buttons on NPC sheets.
- NPC sheets can specify the fumble die in the AC field.
- Placeholder text will be added for bonus languages due to Intelligence.
- New spells are automatically marked as prepared when dropped to the char sheet.
- Blank saving throw actions for spells are hidden in 'Combat' mode.
- Specific invoke patron spells for each patron.
- NPC entries for the four types of familiars.
- Casting table results will now display in the chat window when a dice swap button is pressed (bug fix).
That's probably half of them. I'm going to save the spell failure chat message for the next update because it involves a lot of data entry, and I will try to include some of the other chat message options for spells in that update as well, such as displaying the mercurial magic effect and manifestation. I haven't abandoned the idea of auto-rolling misfire and corruption results, but I believe that would involve a massive amount of data entry (if it's even possible).
I created a module for "Lost, Failure, and Worse" nested tables with Corruption, Misfire, and Patron Taint tables for every core spell. Then I somehow corrupted the module and lost it all. So I have to redo it. That was a lot of data entry!
I recommend celestian’s Table Import extension if the data is in table format. That won’t help with misfire tables of course. I need to start breaking things down into categories - tables, items, npcs... The library has become enormous at this point. Thank goodness for the search bar!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tabarkus
I submitted a bunch of updates that should hit the 'Test' channel on Tue Nov 3 and go live on Tue Nov 10 if testing goes smoothly. I will try to post some screenshots of a few updated features before it goes out.
Looking ahead, I have a list started for the next update that you can expect probably in December:
- Generate a chat message for failed spell checks based on casting table results
- Create an option to generate a chat message for the spell manifestation and mercurial magic effect on a successful spell check roll
- Parse the NPC crit threshold from the special properties field using the format 'crit on <threat range>' (the format in the core rules)
- Add new art from 8th printing
Keep in mind that is just a working list and not final in any way...
Awesome! I will hold off on redoing my own tables for spell corruption and misfire! Thankfully, that's a lot of data entry.
I was leaning towards auto-rolling corruption/misfire based on the spell check result and using a data file for chat messaging rather than creating (tons of) rollable tables, which would make the core rules modules enormous. It takes a little while for the modules to load from the library as it is.
Here is the list of updates for DCC RPG 1.1.6:
RULESET
[Updated] Fumble die for NPCs may be specified in ‘AC’ field – for example, ‘11 (fumble d8)’ will roll a d8, and ‘15 (scale mail and shield)’ will roll a d12.
[Added] Buttons created on NPC sheet for crit and fumble rolls.
[Added] Placeholder added for bonus languages based on intelligence – for example, ‘Two additional languages for Int bonus’.
[Updated] No additional languages other than Common are added to the char sheet for occupation/class drops when Int score is less than 8.
[Updated] ‘Notes’ label in spell record changed to ‘Mercurial Magic’.
[Removed] Tooltip text for ‘Notes’ field in spell record.
[Fixed] Spells on Actions tab were not displaying in ‘Combat’ mode for wizards and elves (i.e. when ‘Spells by Level’ values all equal 0).
[Updated] Save actions are hidden in ‘Combat’ mode if no saving throw is specified.
[Updated] New spells are automatically marked as prepared (i.e. not lost) when dropped to char sheet.
[Updated] ‘Prepared’ value in power group dialog box on Actions tab is automatically set to 1 for new spell groups and updated to ‘Spells by Level’ value if applicable for existing spell groups.
[Fixed] Script error generated for ranged backstab weapons (e.g. blowgun) when dropped to char sheet.
[Fixed] Skills with dice strings in ‘Advancement’ section (e.g. ‘Cast spell from scroll’ for thief class) were not applying to the skills list for class drops.
[Fixed] Casting table results do not display in chat window when dice swap desktop button is pressed.
[Updated] General rolls from the desktop will display the die value when a dice swap button is pressed.
CORE RULES MODULES
[Fixed] ‘Hammer, small’ result in Table 3-4: Equipment links to the trained weapon item from the occupations table instead of the equipment item.
[Fixed] ‘Patron Bond’ spell record displaying extra column lines in casting table for result 12-13.
[Updated] Trained weapons include parenthetical phrase from ‘Table 1-3: Occupation’ – for example, ‘Hammer (as club)’.
[Added] NPC entries created for familiars (guardian, focal, arcane, and demonic).
[Added] Specific invoke patron spells created for each supernatural patron.
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A question/thought Leo, is it possible in FG to make the chat display of Spell Manifestation and Mercurial Magic display in a different color and/or font? Seems to me that that would help with chat text differentiation with a large volume of text.
Yes that’s the plan... I’ve never done it for a chat message, but I believe it’s possible.
Hey guys,
Thank you for all of the fantastic updates and work that has been going on! I can tell you fully that the crew loves it.
Not sure if its just on my end, however we did run last night (first time since last update), and we had a lot of problems. None of us could make our attack rolls or damage rolls on tokens or creatures in the game (dragging the die or attack/ damage onto a token). Every time one of us tried we would get multiple errors or it simply would not let us. It did not matter because we could still roll the dice in the 'dice box' normally, and then manually input everything. BUT nothing was working for any dice rolls or effects on actual PC's or monsters if that makes sense.
Anyways, all good. I am sure it will sort itself out. Again, thank you all for the hard work with these incredible updates. Just letting you know that something is def not right with my game at the moment.
cheers,
Ryan
Thanks for the report. I will definitely check that, Are you using the Unity version? Was there an error message, or did it just not work? I didn’t intentionally change anything with targeting and attack/damage rolls, but it sounds like that’s where the issue is. I will do some testing on my end and get back to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMrabs
Leo!!! Whats up!!?? ;)
Yes, we were using Unity. All of us got script error messages when we did it, all players on their end and me as well. I am not sure how to copy the error messages for you to see? Thanks for checking regardless.
Cheers, ryan
There is a copy to clipboard button in the console window that pops up when the script error occurs, but I will check it out. Thanks again for the report - hope it didn’t mess with your game night too much!
EDIT: I wasn't able to reproduce the script error. Maybe you can paste the error message from the console window for me, and I can figure it out from there.
"General rolls from the desktop will display the die value when a dice swap button is pressed."
When I roll a die from the desktop with a dice swap button pressed I get a script error.
Ok, I see the error - it's the same problem in both cases DMrabs and Tabarkus, and it seems to be unique to FGU. Here are the errors:
Handler error: [string "scripts/manager_action_attack.lua"]:403: attempt to concatenate field '?' (a table value)
Script execution error: [string "scripts/manager_actions2.lua"]:11: attempt to concatenate field '?' (a table value)
In both cases, they point to this line of code:
rRoll.sDesc = rRoll.sDesc .. " (" .. rRoll.aDice[1] .. ")";
...which simply appends the string value of the first die rolled to the chat message. I suspect this is probably a widespread error, since this line of code exists anywhere the die value is displayed in the chat message. Interestingly, this line of code has not changed since before DCC became an officially-supported ruleset, so I suspect this is a Unity conflict and not a bug with the latest updates for DCC. Regardless, I will get it fixed.
Thanks for the bug report...
you probably want one of these:
rRoll.sDesc = rRoll.sDesc .. " (" .. rRoll.aDice[1].value .. ")";
or
rRoll.sDesc = rRoll.sDesc .. " (" .. rRoll.aDice[1].result .. ")";
Im guessing...
It works with my test ruleset, and I believe the syntax is correct - see screenshot. It looks like Unity automatically displays the first die value, so maybe I don't even need this code any more - that would be wonderful.
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EDIT: To clarify, it works in the Live channel using a copy of my updated DCC ruleset. I'm wondering if the conflict is with the Test version of CoreRPG...
The dragdata dice data object returned by FGU always returns the dice data in the format { #1 = { 'type' = 'd6' }, #2 = { 'type' = 'd6' }, ... } or { #1 = { 'type' = 'd6', 'result' = #4 }, #2 = { 'type' = 'd6', 'result' = #2 }, ... }. In FGC, it fluctuated between a straight string list { #1 = 'd6', #2 = 'd6' } and the other format, depending on where it is in the roll cycle.
Since that information gets saved under rRoll.aDice; then any manipulation or usage of the rRoll.aDice field needs to check the type (i.e. type(rRoll.aDice[1]) == 'table')) before maniuplating or using.
Regards,
JPG
Thank you, JPG - that helps a ton actually. Looks like damned was correct, so thanks to him, too.
I am going to consider whether we still need that in the roll description since it now displays over the die icon. Or maybe for now I will just submit a fix.
EDIT: I'm just going to remove those lines of code since they are redundant with the default roll output now. I do need to update some other bits of code based on that info however - for example, the dice chain CT effects are probably not working.
I submitted the bug fix today. According to Smiteworks policy, you will get this on Tue Nov 17. Sorry for the disruption, I was not aware that the dice data format had changed.
In addition to fixing the bug for dice rolls, I added a couple more things to the Tue Nov 17 update:
[Fixed] Filters for ability check effects were not working - i.e., 'CHECK: 2 strength' was applying to all ability checks instead of strength checks only.
[Updated] Dice chain effects now accept filters as follows:
- DIEATK: melee, ranged
- DIECHK: strength, agility, stamina, personality, intelligence, luck
- DIESAV: reflex, fortitude, willpower
- DIESKILL: <skill name>
So, adding the effect 'DIEATK: 1 melee' increases your action die for melee attacks from a d20 to a d24, but ranged attacks still roll a d20. Don't ask me why you would want to do that, but now it's possible ;)
I've pushed the updates to the Test channel for the most recent updates that @leozelig made.
Cheers,
JPG
Oh nice, thank you Moon!Quote:
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This is still very much a work in progress, but I am working on the chat message for spell manifestation and mercurial magic. I created an option for each - set to off by default, so nothing to do if you don't want this feature. These will display if the spell check is successful, the option is turned on, and the field is not blank on the spell record. After dropping a spell to your character sheet, you will need to update the 'Manifestation' field so it only shows the specific manifestation for your character.
Feel free to leave suggestions...
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