Genesys (FFG RPG) work in progress

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Originally Posted by sevrick

Not sure if you know or not but when creating a character in FGU, the character sheet is completely blank with no box or tabs except the name and a few other fields. I know Unity is secondary just thought I would mention it since it is a really big issue for Unity.

I also had an idea for the skill section. You could have a button that cycles the skills and the way they are arranged, like how you did for the Actions tab. For example maybe have a button that says "All" which shows all the skills in alphabetical order. "Grouped" Shows the skills separated into General, social, combat, and Knowledge. "Ranked/Group Skilled" Shows only skills that the npc has ranks or group skills as in the case of minions. Just some ideas I had floating around.

Edit: I also have been adding abilities to the actions tab and am seeing the possibilities. Like adding Skill vs Skill to the radial menu. I know it like dnd they have a target where it lets FG know where you are targeting your spell/ability. It could then get the ranks of the target and upgrade the current spell. It seems rather complicated though. As I am adding more and more NPCs I am noticing a lot of Skill vs Skill abilities in there stat block.

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Hmm, I have tested it on Unity, actually just tested again, and i dont have that issue with the character sheet

Are you on the LIVE version, or TEST? Please dont use test, it is too unstable, and changes too many times on a week, and i cannot garantee it will work there
Can you check if you are on live version?

About the skills tab, i will try to make it work like you said, it would be very nice indeed

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Originally Posted by johniba

Hmm, I have tested it on Unity, actually just tested again, and i dont have that issue with the character sheet

Are you on the LIVE version, or TEST? Please dont use test, it is too unstable, and changes too many times on a week, and i cannot garantee it will work there
Can you check if you are on live version?

About the skills tab, i will try to make it work like you said, it would be very nice indeed

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Ok I found out what the problem was I had a campaign made a long time ago with this rule set and must have had issues, so I deleted it and made a new campaign with the ruleset and now it works fine. Also I do use the live version.

Quick update for the day:
- I managed to add the Dicepool Tracker window into the ruleset... it works just like the one in the Star Wars ruleset, showing dicepools from all players.

It is still not looking very good, but it works. I will see if i can make it look better later.

I will be releasing this feature in a few days, once i finish some other parts of the ruleset (improvement to race database record, vehicles database and player vehicles)

Awesome, makes my life so much easier as a gm. Awesome

NEW RELEASE - FGClassic and FGUnity compatible

(This version was tested with the latest LIVE version of FGUnity.)


I am still working on features in the Species, Career records, and also the Vehicle features.
Altough they are not ready I worked on several features so I thought of releasing this version!


RELEASE NOTES July 31st

1 - Combat Tracker:
A lot of new features here!
- Combat tracker for GMs now display: Wounds Threshold/Current, Strain Threshold/Current, Defense (Melee/Ranged), and Soak, and if npc it will display category (minion, rival, nemesis)
- You can now drop Damage, Critical Damage directly on a pc/npc in the combat tracker!
This feature also works for map tokens
I have not added any details for the Player's Combat Tracker. Let me know if you guys think we should add something there....


2 - Critical Damage
- If you drop critical damage on a Minion, it will no longer receive a critical. It will instead receive one minion's worth of damage (killing a minion on the group), like Genesys Core rules...

3 - Dice Pool Tracker
- Dice Pool Tracker is now available!
With the Dice Pool Tracker window, Players and GM can see a list of everyone's Dice Pool in real time.
This is a familiar feature from those that are used to the Star Wars Ruleset, and I implemented it now on Genesys
For now, it is always available to players, I will later add an Option so the GM can enable/disable to players...
Also notice, if the GM selects "Hide Dice pool" in his/her dicebox, the GM dice pool will not display to players.

How to open Dice Pool Tracker: right click with your mouse on the Dicebox, and select "Dicepool Tracker"
(p.s.: The Dice Pool Tracker is not looking very nice now, I will improve the whole ruleset appearance soon, and will work on this)

As always the new version can be downloaded here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...R-?usp=sharing

Awesome. I am looking forward to testing this out. Still working on Libraries I am done with Genesys core, and Expanded Players guide, and am getting close to finishing up Realms of Terrinoth.

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Just noticed the Column after Soak in the combat tracker has no displayed name for the npcs being Minion, Rival, or Nemesis.

Also those of you looking for the dice pool tracker, right click the dice pool bar and select Dicepool Tracker.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

Awesome. I am looking forward to testing this out. Still working on Libraries I am done with Genesys core, and Expanded Players guide, and am getting close to finishing up Realms of Terrinoth.

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I will see that i finish species and career database and release it so you can have a go.

Just some things I noticed

• Just noticed the Column after Soak in the combat tracker has no displayed name for the npcs being Minion, Rival, or Nemesis.
• Looking at the skills database the filter for "Name" seems out of place. Category or Characteristic may be more suitable.
• When selecting a skill there is no indicator of it being selected.

Also those of you looking for the dice pool tracker, right click the dice pool bar and select Dicepool Tracker.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

Just some things I noticed

• Just noticed the Column after Soak in the combat tracker has no displayed name for the npcs being Minion, Rival, or Nemesis.
• Looking at the skills database the filter for "Name" seems out of place. Category or Characteristic may be more suitable.
• When selecting a skill there is no indicator of it being selected.

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Thanks

Just made a note to remind me to fix that

So I got a question. While adding NPCs I noticed that some NPC stats say they have for example a sword, as one of their attacks. Now the stat block doesn't give any information other than it's damage, crit, and Special. For the most part the damage lines up with the stat block if I just add the weapon to the inventory. However some NPCs, such as the Assassin has the Precision talent. This allows for the ability to change the characteristic the cunning instead of brawn when using the Melee (Light) skill.

So I guess I am saying the items need a new category, "Characteristic". You could have it auto select the appropriate char when you enter the skill, but allow for it to be changed. This would also be needed for star wars, IE Lightsaber styles.

Can you unlock the weapon and change it?

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Originally Posted by sevrick

So I got a question. While adding NPCs I noticed that some NPC stats say they have for example a sword, as one of their attacks. Now the stat block doesn't give any information other than it's damage, crit, and Special. For the most part the damage lines up with the stat block if I just add the weapon to the inventory. However some NPCs, such as the Assassin has the Precision talent. This allows for the ability to change the characteristic the cunning instead of brawn when using the Melee (Light) skill.

So I guess I am saying the items need a new category, "Characteristic". You could have it auto select the appropriate char when you enter the skill, but allow for it to be changed. This would also be needed for star wars, IE Lightsaber styles.

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good idea.

I will do that...

I'm loving the progress on this.

Sorry if this has been asked earlier, but is there any chance the Star Wars libraries or other assets located elsewhere into this?

This will be great for when my group decides to play something other than Star Wars, but it would be great if I could combine both so I don't have to switch in the future ;)

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Originally Posted by mossfoot

I'm loving the progress on this.

Sorry if this has been asked earlier, but is there any chance the Star Wars libraries or other assets located elsewhere into this?

This will be great for when my group decides to play something other than Star Wars, but it would be great if I could combine both so I don't have to switch in the future ;)

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The genesys ruleset isnt finished enough to start on an star wars extension, from what I can tell. As to the Star Wars Libraries that I do plan on do them when the extension is available. It will take quite a bit longer to complete them since there is a ton of content.

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Originally Posted by mossfoot

I'm loving the progress on this.

Sorry if this has been asked earlier, but is there any chance the Star Wars libraries or other assets located elsewhere into this?

This will be great for when my group decides to play something other than Star Wars, but it would be great if I could combine both so I don't have to switch in the future ;)

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Currently, the database structure in the modules from star wars are different but i do want to convert at least a module with items, races, etca to create a module for star wars
I will soon create a new star wars ruleset also, so this will come in handy.

If you have a module with those assets that you could share, please send me a private message, i want to have a look at the data structure, i can work on it

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Originally Posted by sevrick

The genesys ruleset isnt finished enough to start on an star wars extension, from what I can tell. As to the Star Wars Libraries that I do plan on do them when the extension is available. It will take quite a bit longer to complete them since there is a ton of content.

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Maybe i can see if i can write a script to convert some data from an old star wars module, so i can save you time...

I should also add that I love the fact you're making this compatible with both Unity and Classic. While I intend to eventually upgrade to Unity, my group are all using Classic at the moment, and having this version carry over between them is a great idea.

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Originally Posted by Hardbushido

Can you unlock the weapon and change it?

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Some fields are hard coded, like for example what characteristic is for what skill, but i will work on a change.

So i will make it in a way that when the weapon is in the inventory, we allow players to customize, and even change the combination of characteristic+skill, so that if they have a talent that allows a different combination, it works

One thing more I noticed while adding Shadow of the Beanstalk. Named characters have motivations. This might be a good opportunity to add a place for motivations to NPCs and PCs since it is apart of star wars as well.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

So I got a question. While adding NPCs I noticed that some NPC stats say they have for example a sword, as one of their attacks. Now the stat block doesn't give any information other than it's damage, crit, and Special. For the most part the damage lines up with the stat block if I just add the weapon to the inventory. However some NPCs, such as the Assassin has the Precision talent. This allows for the ability to change the characteristic the cunning instead of brawn when using the Melee (Light) skill.

So I guess I am saying the items need a new category, "Characteristic". You could have it auto select the appropriate char when you enter the skill, but allow for it to be changed. This would also be needed for star wars, IE Lightsaber styles.

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I did some tests and gave this some thought.

I think there are several ways to implement this, one is if i add the stat to the weapon in inventory so players can modify, another already exists

First, reading the Talent description:

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Precision (from Realms of Terrinoth, page 84)
When making a Brawl or Ranged check, your character may use Cunning instead of Brawn and Agility.

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We could do this modifying the weapon (i would need to change the code), or the way i will describe below (you can already do this)

One important part in this Talent in the description, is the "your character may use...", meaning everytime you choose to do such a roll, you decide if you want the default way or use the talent option.

For that, this is how you can do it:

For this example, lets say my char wants to use an Axe (Melee Light Skill, that uses Brawn)
To allow me the option of using Cunning instead, this is what i do:

1 - First, I go to the main char page, and add a new skill:

I created a skill that is exactly like Melee Light, but uses Cunning (check the attached image)

Skill description "Melee-L-Precision", Category "Combat", Characteristic "CU"
I added the same number of ranks, 2, which is the rank on my normal Melee Light skill

2 - Now, I already have an Axe on my inventory.
- Click the link icon to open the Weapon stats
- Click the Padlock icon (right side of the weapon name) to unlock it
- Change this:
Name "Axe(P)"
Skill "Melee-L-Precision" (remember, exactly how it is in the skills list)


Click the padlock again to lock the weapon

3 - If you want to have the option when rolling combat with an axe to use normal or the precision way, add another copy of the axe to your inventory
In my attached image i show that example (notice i also edited the encumbrance of one of the weapons so it does not give me again)

Now, whenever the char wants to use Precision, i use that weapon instead of the new one.

Also notice, since this weapon has a damage with a plus sign (+3), the ruleset already knows to add the Brawn value to the total damage, and this still works with the Precision weapon using Cunning.


So for now, I think I will not do any changes.
Later on, I do want to code some automation that takes weapon properties and character talents into consideration, so I think this workaround that already exists can be used.

What do you guys think?

P.S.: I think you will notice in the pictures that now skill ranks are not numbers, they show up as Dots... I am in the middle of changing the skill list :)

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Originally Posted by sevrick

One thing more I noticed while adding Shadow of the Beanstalk. Named characters have motivations. This might be a good opportunity to add a place for motivations to NPCs and PCs since it is apart of star wars as well.

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I am creating a new tab for that, I will see if i can have it done soon :)

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Originally Posted by johniba

I did some tests and gave this some thought.

I think there are several ways to implement this, one is if i add the stat to the weapon in inventory so players can modify, another already exists

First, reading the Talent description:



We could do this modifying the weapon (i would need to change the code), or the way i will describe below (you can already do this)

One important part in this Talent in the description, is the "your character may use...", meaning everytime you choose to do such a roll, you decide if you want the default way or use the talent option.

For that, this is how you can do it:

For this example, lets say my char wants to use an Axe (Melee Light Skill, that uses Brawn)
To allow me the option of using Cunning instead, this is what i do:

1 - First, I go to the main char page, and add a new skill:

I created a skill that is exactly like Melee Light, but uses Cunning (check the attached image)

Skill description "Melee-L-Precision", Category "Combat", Characteristic "CU"
I added the same number of ranks, 2, which is the rank on my normal Melee Light skill

2 - Now, I already have an Axe on my inventory.
- Click the link icon to open the Weapon stats
- Click the Padlock icon (right side of the weapon name) to unlock it
- Change this:
Name "Axe(P)"
Skill "Melee-L-Precision" (remember, exactly how it is in the skills list)


Click the padlock again to lock the weapon

3 - If you want to have the option when rolling combat with an axe to use normal or the precision way, add another copy of the axe to your inventory
In my attached image i show that example (notice i also edited the encumbrance of one of the weapons so it does not give me again)

Now, whenever the char wants to use Precision, i use that weapon instead of the new one.

Also notice, since this weapon has a damage with a plus sign (+3), the ruleset already knows to add the Brawn value to the total damage, and this still works with the Precision weapon using Cunning.


So for now, I think I will not do any changes.
Later on, I do want to code some automation that takes weapon properties and character talents into consideration, so I think this workaround that already exists can be used.

What do you guys think?

P.S.: I think you will notice in the pictures that now skill ranks are not numbers, they show up as Dots... I am in the middle of changing the skill list :)

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It looks like it is a solution. Something about adding a whole new skill for a talent to change the weapons attack seems...cumbersome. All NPCs with a slimier talent would have to have a new skill. However you are the one who has to code this monster so if it would be a lot of work to change it don't worry about it.:) If your worried about me redoing work on the libraries don't be. If you did decided to do it I wouldn't mind updating the libraries.

As far as "Your character may use", if you get this talent 99% of the time you get it because your brawn is low and your cunning is higher. Realistically you would only ever switch is because maybe you got the "Head Ringer", "Horrific Injury", or "Gruesome Injury" that lowers your cunning pool or increases cunning difficulty to where it would be better to use Brawn.

As for the skill ranks changed to dots? What happens if you have more than 5 ranks?

P.S. If you decide to edit the script for items you might add Hard Points/Attachments while your at it. Sorry if I come off as a slaver driver. It isn't my intent. Can't wait for the final version what ever it is.:)

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Originally Posted by sevrick

It looks like it is a solution. Something about adding a whole new skill for a talent to change the weapons attack seems...cumbersome. All NPCs with a slimier talent would have to have a new skill. However you are the one who has to code this monster so if it would be a lot of work to change it don't worry about it.:) If your worried about me redoing work on the libraries don't be. If you did decided to do it I wouldn't mind updating the libraries.

As far as "Your character may use", if you get this talent 99% of the time you get it because your brawn is low and your cunning is higher. Realistically you would only ever switch is because maybe you got the "Head Ringer", "Horrific Injury", or "Gruesome Injury" that lowers your cunning pool or increases cunning difficulty to where it would be better to use Brawn.

As for the skill ranks changed to dots? What happens if you have more than 5 ranks?

P.S. If you decide to edit the script for items you might add Hard Points/Attachments while your at it. Sorry if I come off as a slaver driver. It isn't my intent. Can't wait for the final version what ever it is.:)

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Checking core book it seems skill ranks can be 0 to 5. The code for those dots can handle increases, i could easly change, or even allow for a GM to change an option in the ruleset later, if he wants to house rule...


I will add the hardpoints/attachments :)

Yeah i also looked at a database i have from star wars, to be fair i think converting that is not worth it, might aswell start a new one.

About the skill and precision, one day we can revisit this, and make it better...


Another thing about the skill... what if i allow editing the normal skills in the character/npc sheet (now only custom skills are editable)
Would that be better than creating another skill?

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Originally Posted by johniba

Checking core book it seems skill ranks can be 0 to 5. The code for those dots can handle increases, i could easly change, or even allow for a GM to change an option in the ruleset later, if he wants to house rule...


I will add the hardpoints/attachments :)

Yeah i also looked at a database i have from star wars, to be fair i think converting that is not worth it, might aswell start a new one.

About the skill and precision, one day we can revisit this, and make it better...


Another thing about the skill... what if i allow editing the normal skills in the character/npc sheet (now only custom skills are editable)
Would that be better than creating another skill?

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Opening up the skills to have their characteristics to be able to be edited would work nicely. Better even. It would also allow for increased flexibility for different settings that have similar talents. Also with this you would only have to change the characteristic and any weapons would already work out of the box, so to speak. Brilliant. You many not even have to revisit it.

While I didnt find in the book where it say specifically the cap is 5, we can cross that bridge when we come to it. There may or may not be an NPC with 6 ranks somewhere.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

Opening up the skills to have their characteristics to be able to be edited would work nicely. Better even. It would also allow for increased flexibility for different settings that have similar talents. Also with this you would only have to change the characteristic and any weapons would already work out of the box, so to speak. Brilliant. You many not even have to revisit it.

While I didnt find in the book where it say specifically the cap is 5, we can cross that bridge when we come to it. There may or may not be an NPC with 6 ranks somewhere.

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ok, so i will do that, i will allow editing, plus i will add an option later so the GM can change the global settings for his campaign to allow higher than 5 skill points.
I am also going to implement a "Settings" database.
That way we will have like the player choose a setting when creating his char, and the settings skills will be populated
I will also allow players to drag skills from the skills database to their sheet, for further customizations

I am re-skinning the character sheet also, i will see if i can upload it later today or tomorrow so you can give your feedback

Bugs

• Spell Descriptions can't be bolded
• Item Descriptions when bolded the text shrinks.
• Talents Descriptions symbols font doesn't change.

So how do you want to handle ICE in Shadow of the Beanstalk? You could handle it like you do with weapons and armor. Meaning when you enter in the Type section weapon it adds the boxes needed for that item. You then could add this feature to the Shadow of the Beanstalk extension, since it is pretty unique to this setting.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

So how do you want to handle ICE in Shadow of the Beanstalk? You could handle it like you do with weapons and armor. Meaning when you enter in the Type section weapon it adds the boxes needed for that item. You then could add this feature to the Shadow of the Beanstalk extension, since it is pretty unique to this setting.

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Let me read the rules in the book, I am very unfamiliar with ICE in SoB... I will get back to you after that

Meanwhile, I want your opinion, and everyone else's on some re-design i am doing with the character sheet.
Do you think it is too much?

Please have a look at the attached image (work in progress)

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Looks way good man. It gives it a more Genesys theme with the color scheme. While it isnt the most important thing it is a welcoming site.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

Looks way good man. It gives it a more Genesys theme with the color scheme. While it isnt the most important thing it is a welcoming site.

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I promise i will not waste too much time working on this.

I am focusing on the other missing parts first

I agree. it gives it a great look that adds a lot to the overall feel. Well worth it.

Agreed. Looks more thematic.

I like it a lot! Great job.

I am almost done with the Libraries. It should be out today or tomarrow. I will wait for the Secret's of the Crucible extension before uploading its Library.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

I am almost done with the Libraries. It should be out today or tomarrow. I will wait for the Secret's of the Crucible extension before uploading its Library.

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Awsome.
OK, I will only probably have the update on the weekend, i am thinking sunday

I hope to add all missing stuff, including the extra details for the items record (hardpoints and attachments), species (starting characteristics etca)...
I have done the change that allows editing all skills, i think you will love it....

I will prepare the extension also.... but in the future, we might not need extensions, with the change i will be doing soon to how skills go to the character sheet....

That's Great news from both Sevrick and Johniba. Really looking forward to seeing the next stage of what you have been working on. Wish i knew enough to help!

Hey Sevrick, I created the Keyforge extension, it is available on google drive....

I hope to finish the latest updates soon, I am really excited for the next release, there are a lot of cool stuff, getting very close to a 1.0 version :)
Hopefully like i said, sunday i can finish

Sounds good. Now that I have the extension it may not be out tomorrow. I will shoot for Sunday as well.

I noticed a weird bug. When I tried dragging one special ability from one NPC to another I got this error:

Script Error: [string "scripts/manager_char_genesys.lua"]:81: attempt to call global 'addRacialTrait' (a nil value)
Runtime Notice: s'charactermanager.lua:onDrop: Type = shortcut'
Runtime Notice: s'charactermanager.lua:onDrop: shortcut class = referenceracialtrait'
Script Error: [string "scripts/manager_char_genesys.lua"]:442: attempt to call global 'shareWindow' (a nil value)

I even tried unlocking the one I was dragging it to and still the same thing. The reason I even did this is because I am doing drones and most of them have several similar abilities.

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Originally Posted by sevrick

Sounds good. Now that I have the extension it may not be out tomorrow. I will shoot for Sunday as well.

I noticed a weird bug. When I tried dragging one special ability from one NPC to another I got this error:

Script Error: [string "scripts/manager_char_genesys.lua"]:81: attempt to call global 'addRacialTrait' (a nil value)
Runtime Notice: s'charactermanager.lua:onDrop: Type = shortcut'
Runtime Notice: s'charactermanager.lua:onDrop: shortcut class = referenceracialtrait'
Script Error: [string "scripts/manager_char_genesys.lua"]:442: attempt to call global 'shareWindow' (a nil value)

I even tried unlocking the one I was dragging it to and still the same thing. The reason I even did this is because I am doing drones and most of them have several similar abilities.

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OK, yes i found a couple of issues with dropping records on pcs or npcs
I will put that bug on my list to fix

I am already reviewing a couple, for example, i will see if dragging a species/archetype on a character, if i can make the starting characteristics, etca, go to the character sheet automatically
So, i will see if i can look at the other issue you reported

Feature Ideas

• Ability to auto success, advantage, Failure, and Threat to dice pool, skills, and weapons.
• Ability to auto add dice to skill checks and weapons.

I wished for this several times while playing star wars when I had a tricked out Lightsaber or Gun. Just getting it out there so I don't forget.:)