5E - Better Combat Effects Gold

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Originally Posted by nephranka

I went the following way which is fully automated:

Effect for the Bararian:
DUSE and AST
Ancestral Protectors; ATKHADDT: FocusOnMe

Two effects:
1 rnd RS and Bob is name of the barbarian
FocusOnMe; IFT: NAME(!Bob); DISATK; ATKHADDT: HalfDMG

0 rnds RTS
HalfDMG; RESIST: all; DMGRT

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This looks even better than my way. :o

I'm going to re-code the Barbarian to use this method for tonight's game. Quick clarification—I'm assuming that the "AST" for the first effect is referring to "Activate Start of Turn" which is abbreviated as "AS" in FGU...?

While I have your attention, my Barbarian player and I have been struggling to 'automate' the Reckless Attack and Brutal Strike combo. Do you have any suggestions for that?

The text for each respectively reads: "You can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with increased ferocity. When you make your first attack roll on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you Advantage on attack rolls using Strength until the start of your next turn, but attack rolls against you have Advantage during that time." and "If you use Reckless Attack, you can forgo any Advantage on one Strength-based attack roll of your choice on your turn. The chosen attack roll mustn’t have Disadvantage. If the chosen attack roll hits, the target takes an extra 1d10 damage of the same type dealt by the weapon or Unarmed Strike, and you can cause one Brutal Strike effect of your choice. You have the following effect options."

I don't know of a way to 'cancel' ADVATK without making it a separate effect from Reckless Attack (ADVATK; GRANTADVATK; [SELF]; [SRS]) and Brutal Strike (DMG: 1d10; [ROLL]; [SELF]). I'm also trying to achieve this without having to temporarily apply DISATK to the Barbarian. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Originally Posted by cwsoots

This looks even better than my way. :o

I'm going to re-code the Barbarian to use this method for tonight's game. Quick clarification—I'm assuming that the "AST" for the first effect is referring to "Activate Start of Turn" which is abbreviated as "AS" in FGU...?

While I have your attention, my Barbarian player and I have been struggling to 'automate' the Reckless Attack and Brutal Strike combo. Do you have any suggestions for that?

The text for each respectively reads: "You can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with increased ferocity. When you make your first attack roll on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you Advantage on attack rolls using Strength until the start of your next turn, but attack rolls against you have Advantage during that time." and "If you use Reckless Attack, you can forgo any Advantage on one Strength-based attack roll of your choice on your turn. The chosen attack roll mustn’t have Disadvantage. If the chosen attack roll hits, the target takes an extra 1d10 damage of the same type dealt by the weapon or Unarmed Strike, and you can cause one Brutal Strike effect of your choice. You have the following effect options."

I don't know of a way to 'cancel' ADVATK without making it a separate effect from Reckless Attack (ADVATK; GRANTADVATK; [SELF]; [SRS]) and Brutal Strike (DMG: 1d10; [ROLL]; [SELF]). I'm also trying to achieve this without having to temporarily apply DISATK to the Barbarian. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Yeah. Activate start any turn.

Here is what I use:
Reckless Attack; GRANTADVATK; IF: !CUSTOM(Brutal Strike); ADVATK: melee; ([SELF]; [SRS])

Brutal Strike; IF: CUSTOM(Reckless Attack); IF: !DIS; DMG: 1d10 ([ROLL]; [SELF]))


When the BS is on the RA is off and BS only works if the RA is an effect on the Barbarian.

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Originally Posted by nephranka

Yeah. Activate start any turn.

Here is what I use:
Reckless Attack; GRANTADVATK; IF: !CUSTOM(Brutal Strike); ADVATK: melee; ([SELF]; [SRS])

Brutal Strike; IF: CUSTOM(Reckless Attack); IF: !DIS; DMG: 1d10 ([ROLL]; [SELF]))


When the BS is on the RA is off and BS only works if the RA is an effect on the Barbarian.

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That looks great! Thanks again! I'll try it out at our next session.

Guess "*" is off limits in effects as BCEG will be interpreting it and potentially removing it.

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Originally Posted by ColoradoGM

I have an error with only Kingdoms & Warfare and Better Combat Effects Gold loaded. Healing effects (potions and scrolls) don't land, and this error is displayed:

Script execution error: [string "..erCombatEffectsGold:...tion_heal5e_bce.lua"]: 138: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'nPercent' (a nil value)

Healing works normally with K&W loaded, or with BCEG loaded, but the two don't get along. Posting this in both forums.

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I have a mass army battle coming up next week, really hoping you can get this fixed. On the K&W forum, Moon Wizard said :
"just pushed an update to remove the missing file issue. It looks like the DLC developer removed the unneeded directory, but forgot to remove the reference. Please run a new Check for Updates to get the latest.

For the BCEG issue; you'll have to take that up with the BCEG extension developer.

Regards,
JPG"

Edit: of COURSE I found it right after posting what I was looking for. Cheers.

Is there somewhere else I should have posted my question? It's been a couple of weeks with no response.

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Originally Posted by ColoradoGM

Is there somewhere else I should have posted my question? It's been a couple of weeks with no response.

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Try on the GrimPress discord:
https://discord.gg/grimpress

Ryan the author is away on business so likely hasn't got to this yet.

SNEAKATK isn't working correctly after the latest FGU update. With only BCEG loaded, after sneak attack is deactivated because of being used, it no longer activates when moving to the next turn in the combat tracker. Manually reactivating the effect works.

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Originally Posted by GKEnialb

SNEAKATK isn't working correctly after the latest FGU update. With only BCEG loaded, after sneak attack is deactivated because of being used, it no longer activates when moving to the next turn in the combat tracker. Manually reactivating the effect works.

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It's working for me. Make sure you have ATS set for the change state.

Thanks - it looks like it ATS got unset somehow. Tried it from scratch and it works as expected.

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Originally Posted by DMLars

Hey Ryan,

Thanks for adding the Critical Hit functionality, works great!

I found something that isn't working correctly. When using "TATKHDMGS: 5 cold,melee" the return damage is not activating. If I remove the "melee" tag it works. Also does not work with the "ranged" tag.

No other extensions loaded.

Thanks again.

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Originally Posted by rhagelstrom

Thanks for the report. I'll take a look at it and get a fix in.

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Hi! It seems that the functionality in the post above is still not working. Adding either a "melee" or "ranged" tag deactivates the damage. When that tag is removed, the damage works as it should.

Thanks again for everything you are doing!

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Originally Posted by obo

Hi! It seems that the functionality in the post above is still not working. Adding either a "melee" or "ranged" tag deactivates the damage. When that tag is removed, the damage works as it should.

Thanks again for everything you are doing!

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I tested all 3 versions.
TATKHDMGS: 5 cold
TATKHDMGS: 5 cold, melee
TATKHDMGS: 5 cold, ranged


All are working exactly as expected.

Can you post more information?

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Originally Posted by MrDDT

I tested all 3 versions.
TATKHDMGS: 5 cold
TATKHDMGS: 5 cold, melee
TATKHDMGS: 5 cold, ranged


All are working exactly as expected.

Can you post more information?

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You are absolutely right! I don't know what I did wrong when I was testing the other day, but I have restarted FG since then, and all tests works ok now. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your quick reply :-)

Hi everyone! I'm having an issue with ADVCOND: Turned. Specifically with only BCEG, Auras, and Equipped Effects loaded when a ghoul and ghast are subject to turning the effect works on the ghast but not the ghoul. I originally tried implementing this with an aura but then tried just applying "ADVCOND: Turned" to the ghoul and it does not grant advantage when my PC targets them with a saving throw with Turned in the effects, nor does dropping the turning defiance effect from the effect menu.

This is the aura i tried: Turning Defiance Aura; IFT: NAME(Ghoul); AURA: 30; ADVCOND: Turned
It works to apply the aura to a ghoul but when forced to save against turning does not apply advantage. The effect works on the ghast properly. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Edit: I tried again with only BCEG loaded and took a screenshot. Attachment 65437

Hello there!

Is there any way to check "IF: DMGTYPE(*specific element*)"? I was... researching (I'm a lazy mf that wanted to automate the Oil flask dousing a creature effect) and didn't find any way to make it work PROPERLY with the SDMGADDT nor with the TDMGADDT, as I was trying to make it add an affect that apply DMGA: 5 fire (1 use only, I already chain killed a PC for missing this xD)
I imagine that the game has some way to check what DMGTYPE has done damage, as it deactivates things like regen or undead fortitude (I may have another extention for this last one, idk)

Ty in advance!

Good day,

Sorry if I've missed it but I'm trying to automate the Oath of Glory Paladin's Aura of Alacrity and I currently have the following: Aura of Alacrity; AURA: 10 ally,Prot,sticky; Aura of Alacrity; Speed +10

This seems to apply the speed effect to allies but then it seems to stay forever, when it should disappear from the ally at the end of their next turn. Any ideas on how to fix that?

Thanks in advance

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Originally Posted by k4071c0

Good day,

Sorry if I've missed it but I'm trying to automate the Oath of Glory Paladin's Aura of Alacrity and I currently have the following: Aura of Alacrity; AURA: 10 ally,Prot,sticky; Aura of Alacrity; Speed +10

This seems to apply the speed effect to allies but then it seems to stay forever, when it should disappear from the ally at the end of their next turn. Any ideas on how to fix that?

Thanks in advance

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You can't set it to end at the set time, it's either while in the aura, or until removed from something (could be a save, or manually or whatever)

I'm getting an error with IFT: !TYPE(demon). I'm trying to automate the Alkilith's Foment Confusion. While I'm here, is there a way to add an effect based on whether the target fails by 5 or more? Other extensions in use are Auras and Equipped Effects.

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Foment Confusion. Any creature that isn't a demon that starts its turn within 30 feet of the alkilith must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw, or it hears a faint buzzing in its head for a moment and has disadvantage on its next attack roll, saving throw, or ability check.

If the saving throw against Foment Confusion fails by 5 or more, the creature is instead subjected to the confusion spell for 1 minute (no concentration required by the alkilith). While under the effect of that confusion, the creature is immune to Foment Confusion.

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Here are the effects I'm trying to use that throw the error.

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Foment Confusion; IFT: !TYPE(demon); AURA: 30; SAVES: 18 WIS; SAVEADD: BUZZING ALKILITH
BUZZING ALKILITH; DISATK; DISSAV; DISCHK

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Thanks for any help!

Attachment 65526

I see other exts (at least 7) in the picture. I will test the coding and see if I'm getting the error and get back to you.

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Originally Posted by k4071c0

Good day,

Sorry if I've missed it but I'm trying to automate the Oath of Glory Paladin's Aura of Alacrity and I currently have the following: Aura of Alacrity; AURA: 10 ally,Prot,sticky; Aura of Alacrity; Speed +10

This seems to apply the speed effect to allies but then it seems to stay forever, when it should disappear from the ally at the end of their next turn. Any ideas on how to fix that?

Thanks in advance

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The effects I came up with were the following, using the Step Counter and Walk this Way extensions:

For the Aura itself, which I incorporated into Aura of Protection:

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Aura of Protection; IF: !CUSTOM(incapacitated); IF: !CUSTOM(paralyzed); IF: !CUSTOM(petrified); IF: !CUSTOM(stunned); IF: !CUSTOM(unconscious); AURA: 10 ally,auraofalarcity[this is a custom aura]; AoE Aura of Protection; SAVE: [CHA]; IF: !CUSTOM(Alarcitous); IF: !CUSTOM(!Gift of Alarcity); SPEED: 10 inc; EXPIREADD: !Gift of Alarcity

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And for the speed extension lasting after leaving the aura:

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!Gift of Alarcity; SPEED: 10 inc; DUR: 1 [RE]

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And for the paladin who has the aura itself:

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Alarcitous

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For some reason, after restarting the campaign the errors have gone away. Question from previous post still stands, is it possible to automate the "fail by 5" effect? Thanks.

I have a question about ATKFADD. Is is possible to force a save before applying an effect on a crit fail. For example a DC 10 Constitution Save, if failed then poisoned?

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Originally Posted by Lord Skrolk

I have a question about ATKFADD. Is is possible to force a save before applying an effect on a crit fail. For example a DC 10 Constitution Save, if failed then poisoned?

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You would make the crit fail do a save first.

ATKFADD; PCheck

PCheck; SAVEA: 10 CON (R); Poisoned

Hey,

I'm missing

TATKHADDT
TATKHADDS
SATKHADDT
SATKHADDS

because I would like to give for an example effects to the attacker before the damage is rolled and not just after the damage roll. Is there any possibility to add these?

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Originally Posted by MrDDT

You would make the crit fail do a save first.

ATKFADD; PCheck

PCheck; SAVEA: 10 CON (R); Poisoned

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Works Great!! Thank you very much!!

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Originally Posted by Emmure

Hey,

I'm missing

TATKHADDT
TATKHADDS
SATKHADDT
SATKHADDS

because I would like to give for an example effects to the attacker before the damage is rolled and not just after the damage roll. Is there any possibility to add these?

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Can you give me an example of what you are trying to do?

sure:

NPC attacks PC. PC has a curse with "All hits against this creature are critical hits with additional 1d8 necrotic damage" so I want to give the NPC for the damage automatically DMG: 1d8, necrotic; CDMG;.

Curse of Autocrit; TATKHADDS: CurseHit;
CurseHit; DMG: 1d8, necrotic; CDMG;

This might be the simplest example...

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Originally Posted by Emmure

sure:

NPC attacks PC. PC has a curse with "All hits against this creature are critical hits with additional 1d8 necrotic damage" so I want to give the NPC for the damage automatically DMG: 1d8, necrotic; CDMG;.

Curse of Autocrit; TATKHADDS: CurseHit;
CurseHit; DMG: 1d8, necrotic; CDMG;

This might be the simplest example...

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After reviewing this, I see no real way of making this work without adding in the features you requested to BCEG. We will put it on the todo list of feature requests. Might be a bit before we can get to it.

Yet another Spirit Guardians question, this one for the D&D2024 version of the spell.
This is the coding I have, cribbed from this forum I think, and it mostly works, except.
$ Spirit Guardians; 'note'; (C); AURA: 15 !ally, 80DC143C; AoE Spirit Guardians; IF: FACTION(!self); IF: !CUSTOM(IgnoreSG); SPEED: half; SAVEDMG: 3d8 radiant, spell; EXPIREADD: SGI; IF: !CUSTOM(SGI); SAVEA: [SDC] WIS (M)(H); SAVEADD: SGI; SAVEADDP: SGI; SAVEE: [SDC] WIS (M)(H)

custom effects list: SGI; IMMUNE: CUSTOM(SGI)

The problems I have:
When the caster begins his turn with enemies in radius and steps out of radius, those enemies get the immune SGI effect dropped on them, which they should not as they have not taken SG damage this turn (the caster is trying to step out and back in to trigger damage).

Spell's wording: whenever the Emanation enters a creature's space and whenever a creature enters the Emanation or ends its turn there, the creature must make a Wisdom saving throw....A creature makes this save only once per turn.

Is there updated coding for this spell? Searching this forum for "spirit guardians" only turned up two posts from 2022 so I must be searching wrong, because I know I've seen extensive discussion about it.

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Originally Posted by ColoradoGM

Yet another Spirit Guardians question, this one for the D&D2024 version of the spell.
This is the coding I have, cribbed from this forum I think, and it mostly works, except.
$ Spirit Guardians; 'note'; (C); AURA: 15 !ally, 80DC143C; AoE Spirit Guardians; IF: FACTION(!self); IF: !CUSTOM(IgnoreSG); SPEED: half; SAVEDMG: 3d8 radiant, spell; EXPIREADD: SGI; IF: !CUSTOM(SGI); SAVEA: [SDC] WIS (M)(H); SAVEADD: SGI; SAVEADDP: SGI; SAVEE: [SDC] WIS (M)(H)

custom effects list: SGI; IMMUNE: CUSTOM(SGI)

The problems I have:
When the caster begins his turn with enemies in radius and steps out of radius, those enemies get the immune SGI effect dropped on them, which they should not as they have not taken SG damage this turn (the caster is trying to step out and back in to trigger damage).

Spell's wording: whenever the Emanation enters a creature's space and whenever a creature enters the Emanation or ends its turn there, the creature must make a Wisdom saving throw....A creature makes this save only once per turn.

Is there updated coding for this spell? Searching this forum for "spirit guardians" only turned up two posts from 2022 so I must be searching wrong, because I know I've seen extensive discussion about it.

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I'm slightly confused here. How does the caster "step out of the radius" when the spell is centered on them?

My understanding is the caster casts the spell, with the coding above. All non-allies should have to roll a save and take damage. Which then also applies the effect SGI because of SAVEADD and SAVEADDP (which means on a save or fail of the roll).
If the caster then moves (taking the aura with them) SGI would then be placed again however, the creatures are IMMUNE to SGI, and it won't go on them.
If a turn passes from the caster to someone else SGI should be removed (as it should be set to RTS "Remove Any Turn"). Causing those creatures to make a new save if they become inside the AURA again somehow IE they move into it or someone moves them into it, or someone moves the caster to be closer to those creatures etc.

[QUOTE=MrDDT;751830]I'm slightly confused here. How does the caster "step out of the radius" when the spell is centered on them?

Situation: caster with the aura begins their turn with enemies in range. (These enemies don't have the immunity on, as a turn change has happened and it was removed).
Caster wants to move away from the enemy, then step back into range to trigger the effect. But when they step away, FG puts the immune effect on the creature. This is the step I want to not happen. Currently I have to pause play when they step away, remove the just placed immunity, then say "continue".

[QUOTE=ColoradoGM;751831]

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Originally Posted by MrDDT

I'm slightly confused here. How does the caster "step out of the radius" when the spell is centered on them?

Situation: caster with the aura begins their turn with enemies in range. (These enemies don't have the immunity on, as a turn change has happened and it was removed).
Caster wants to move away from the enemy, then step back into range to trigger the effect. But when they step away, FG puts the immune effect on the creature. This is the step I want to not happen. Currently I have to pause play when they step away, remove the just placed immunity, then say "continue".

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I get you know. There are 2 known limitations on this working perfectly. There is no effect coding fix for it this is the best we got.

2 Known Issues.

1) If the AOE (AKA caster) moves where an effected creature is in the aura, then back to affect that creature it will not trigger correctly due to SGI.
2) If a creature on any turn (other than one where it took damage already) moves from inside the affected area to outside it then back inside it.

I see no way to make this better without having another issue pop up. Example, you can make saves happen at the start of a creatures turn, but then they would not be affected at the end of their turn as the spell description. Best we can do without having a hard ext coding change.

My suggestion is either use the 2014 rules, or know these 2 issues and manually remove the SGI when AOE moves or the creature moves.

Thanks for checking this out! It works fine in most of my tables but this one player tries to squeeze all the juice he can out of the spell. We'll just continue to adapt.

Trying to automate Genie's Wrath. Whenever I add the effect, it rolls a die. It should only add damage equal to proficiency. Help, please?

Genie's Wrath: Once during each of your turns when you hit with an attack roll, you can deal extra damage to the target equal to your proficiency bonus. The type of this damage is determined by your patron: bludgeoning (dao), thunder (djinni), fire (efreeti), or cold (marid).

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Originally Posted by Chivalrous1

Trying to automate Genie's Wrath. Whenever I add the effect, it rolls a die. It should only add damage equal to proficiency. Help, please?

Genie's Wrath: Once during each of your turns when you hit with an attack roll, you can deal extra damage to the target equal to your proficiency bonus. The type of this damage is determined by your patron: bludgeoning (dao), thunder (djinni), fire (efreeti), or cold (marid).

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This is what I've been using. The player selects it just before rolling damage. You can change "cold" to the appropriate patron's damage. Set it to Target Self and Expend on the next roll.

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Genie's Vessel (Genie's Wrath); DMG: [PRF] cold

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Originally Posted by cwsoots

This is what I've been using. The player selects it just before rolling damage. You can change "cold" to the appropriate patron's damage. Set it to Target Self and Expend on the next roll.

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Genie's Vessel (Genie's Wrath); DMG: [PRF] cold

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Yes, thank you. I just figured it out myself... And will also need to add magic depending on if it isn't a non-magical weapon

Genie's Wrath; DMG: [PRF] magic, cold

EFFINIT does not seem to be working in a 5E Campaign with only BECG. It doesn't work with regular initiative or re-rolling initiative each round.

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Originally Posted by Griogre

EFFINIT does not seem to be working in a 5E Campaign with only BECG. It doesn't work with regular initiative or re-rolling initiative each round.

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I'm not sure you understand what this coding effect is set to do. I've tested this and it's working.

This is to set an EFFECT to an INIT. Not to set a creatures INIT to and effect or a set timer.

If you want to set a creature in the CT to a set INIT number you will need to use another ext, my suggestion would be to use INITATIVE NANNY.
Using the effect coding

• FIXINIT: n - Locks the bearer’s initiative to be n, where n is any number.

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