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Just noticed that Encounter With a Truly Alien Being (a Career Event) has Control as the Attribute it raises, mechanically, but the description says it should be Reason.
I checked the rulebook and that says Reason, so I'm guessing it's the Control in the detail panel that's wrong.
Thanks for the report. I'll push an update for this with the next weekly update.
Hello all! Thanks for the gorgeous LCARS UI for the STA stuff! Wonderful!
Unfortunatley I am having some difficulties with using both the weapons as statted in the STA module to make attack rolls, and creating custom weapons to circumvent the issue.
All weapon items appear to be incorrectly referencing Security/Security as the attack roll made. The STA CRB (p174) says that attacks are a combination of an attribute and discipline roll, like the other rolls in the 2D20 system. Melee attacks use Daring + Security and ranged attacks Control + Security respectively. There is no way way to set an Attribute for the attack attribute, as it only references Disciplines in the attack Attribute slot of the weapon item detail card. This seems to break the calculations for all combat automations. See the steps to reproduce the issue below.
REPRODUCE
1) Open an existing weapon item
2) Unlock Item sheet
3) Attempt to edit the ATK Discipline to the appropriate Attribute
Expected: To be able to select an ATK Attribute for the automation roll
Actual: The field is limited to Discipline cell selection
Thanks for all your hard work! I'm sure this will be remedied swiftly with the quality on display!
The controls on weapons are for the attack and damage discipline used. From the core rulebook I have looked over I couldn't find any other need for the attribute to be changed from it's default. It appears only the discipline was changed. Nerve pinch comes to mind. Since some attacks use different disciplines for the TN it was added to allow that change. I will try to reproduce the others you have reported.
Hey Dominic,
This is the issue I was talking about on Discord, vis a vis Nerve Pinch not calculating the TN correctly. I think Will had some others as well.
I am specifically unable to even set an attribute to be rolled. It only allows for disciplines. All phasers in my FGU roll security/security when fired via the automation on the combat tab. I had to create an unarmed attack weapon item to use in the combat tab automation as it is not present in the items and am only able to select two Disciplines for it. The roll is an Attribute and a Discipline. There is currently no way to select an Attribute, it just clicks through Disciplines. There is no way to create an attack that will roll an Attribute and a Discipline IE Daring+ Security for a melee attack using the weapon items or custom weapons.
I'm struggling to find a way to clarify the issue further? All I need to do is open a weapon to see that it rolls security/security. If I test the roll, it rolls the appropriate math for security/security. There is no weapon attack that I am aware of in the STA system that rolls Security/Security or ANY Discipline/Discipline combination. All rolls are resolved with an Attribute/Discipline, so why am I unable to create an attack that uses the combat automation using an Attribute/Discipline. Furthermore, I'm confused as to why all the phasers in the CRB transcription into FGU list Security/Security in their item description when the actual rulebook clarifies that it is a Control/Security.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the UI and math, or I could be misunderstanding your explanation, but the issue seems pretty self evident to me upon a cursory examination of the system.
EDIT: I was factually misundertsanding ATK and DMG discipline UI. There remains the issue of the TN's not updating to reflect changes made to the atrributes/disciplines, as with the example given with the Nerve Pinch below though
Items are not setting the TN number correctly if you change the default Discipline. Example is Nerve Pinch.
To recreate - drag Nerve Pinch to the sheet, and change the ATK and DMG fields from Security to Science (normal for NP) or any other Discipline.
Roll produces a TN that says Daring + Science in the chat card, but is calculating Daring + Security TN, regardless of the change.
Creating a new item and setting the ATK and DMG fields to Science then dragging the NP to the sheet produces the same miscalculation when rolling.
https://discord.com/channels/2745828...45960449818695
Right, I will check it out. Just wanted to explain why you see Security/Security in the controls on the item. They represent being able to change the discipline for the calculation. I haven't seen anywhere in the materials I was given where the Attribute wasn't set by the type of the attack. I'm not disputing the validity of your reports and will attempt to replicate and see what might be causing the issue. Just wanted to be sure it was relayed the logic of the sheet.
I pushed a hot fix for the attack Tn and damage rating not updating when changed on the item sheet for the PCs.
Awesome, thank you!
RE: Choosing Attributes - RAW yes, they only put forward Control + Security for ranged and Daring + Security for melee. I personally would rather use Fitness + Security for melee, and Daring for an extra special, Kirk Flying Butt attack, so the drop down would be nice in that case. I understood that you'd put it in w/o the drop down to reflect the CRB RAW.
Anyway, Cheers again for hotfixing the TN calculation so quickly!
Issue with Token & Portrait selection and assignment
My GM and I were setting up crew for the newly created ship.
We had the Party Sheet open, along with my PC and Support and the GM had all the other PC's and the support PC
The Support for several players were not yet assigned tokens, so the GM dragged in a token from assets.
This overwrote the portraits and token for my PC as well as the two other just added (to ship crew) support sheets
When I changed my PC token back, it then overwrote those same two characters token along with mine.
The GM was able to assign tokens to support character sheets, but I could not
We are both now confused
Thank you for the report. I will add this to my list to investigate.
I am Reg's GM and figured a fix to the issue. Tokens being placed on the Token Slot, seems to fix the issue. Myself or the others were probably placing tokens on the Portrait Slot on the character sheet. Why it linked 3 characters together and then 2 others is a mystery.
Well Star Trek does operate with some new features that no other ruleset has had the pleasure of testing out. Companions are bit of an odd ball record as it's owned by the player, but also needs to operate like an NPC. So it might be some drop code with one of those templates that thinks it's the player and not the companion itself. That's just one working theory. I won't know anything more concrete till I have some bandwidth to look it over.
Crew Names truncated
Another minor annoyance that has cropped up.
We've just started a new campaign and while everyone is getting used to who's character belongs to whom, we thought that we'd append our real names at the front
The portraits at top left are too small and the Party Sheet truncates them as if centred.
The only place the full text shows up in in Chat for rolls or typed comments
So there's nowhere at a quick glance to check who is is who.
Is there a way around this?
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I'm currently on vacation and wont' be able to look at this till I am back.
Enjoy your much-deserved break!Quote:
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No rush and never expected otherwise - just wanted to add it to the list of things to look into.
See you next Year
During a test session with our DM and another player familiar with the Pen & Paper version - we think that there might be a glitch in ship combat for how DM threat and Player Momentum spends are calculated to apply to subsequent attack damage rolls.
So when we spend two momentum by clicking penetration twice, the Momentum is reduced, but the target ship's Resistance is NOT ignored by the purchased amount.
Also the special effects any StarFleet deltas that are rolled are not cumulatively applied to numerous systems of the target ship
...and we have another possible glitch for combat.
The difficulty for either ship-to-ship or personal combat seems to ignore the difficulty set by the DM and the defaults are always 1 for ship - either phaser or torpedo - or 2 for personal weapons
This doesn't change for momentum spent.
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Originally Posted by Reg
You will have to add the effects by hand. It's not automated.
If an action has a built in difficulty, it can't be overridden by the difficulty selection. As the GM's difficulty selection is always on it would cause havoc. That is why you are seeing the difficulty not changing for those actions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reg
These two things seem to be contradictory.Quote:
Originally Posted by superteddy57
Energy weapons are the primary armament of most
vessels, as they are straightforward, effective, and do
not require additional heavy munitions stores — only
rechargeable power cells and relays that connect to the
vessel’s power systems. Attacks using energy weapons
have a basic Difficulty of 2. Making an attack with an
energy weapon has a Power requirement of 1, and
may spend up to two additional Power to increase the
damage by +1 per additional Power spent.
Torpedo weapons, such as the common photon
torpedoes employed by vessels of many species, are
programmable, self-propelled projectiles with an explosive
payload, such as a quantity of antimatter, or some manner
of field generator. Attacks with torpedoes do not have
a Power requirement, but also cannot use additional
Power to add bonus . However, firing torpedoes can
be considered to escalate hostilities, so attacking with
torpedoes immediately adds 1 to Threat. Characters may
choose to fire a torpedo salvo instead of a single torpedo
(also known as a “Full Spread”), which adds 2 more to
Threat, but which adds +1 to the attack’s Damage and
grants the Spread effect. Attacks using torpedoes have a
basic Difficulty of 3.
- RANGE: This will be one of Close (or C), Medium (M), or Long (L). This is not a maximum range, but rather the optimal range of the weapon. If the target is at that distance, the Difficulty of the attack is unchanged. If the target is closer or further away, increase the Difficulty of the attack by +1 for each category (Close, Medium, Long, or Extreme) away from the weapon’s Range. p.231
- Then there's things like attack patterns and evasive manoeuvre that will also create a difficulty change that don't seem to be automated, so would require the GM to alter the default difficulty for an attack shot.
That's before you consider any of the story might dictate.
Would it not be better to default to 2& 3 that the GM can then alter depending upon circumstances?
You can add the DIFFICULTY effect to increase or decrease such cases.
https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...vanced+Effects
I guess this is a bug... when I export a character, most of the apostrophes are converted to the "’ ;" text (space inserted so that it doesn't show up as an apostrophe). I suspect that a lot of the apostrophes used in talents and item descriptions are the "curly" type instead of the straight type, which is causing the issue. I don't think it's a problem, but it is sort of annoying, and in some items like the tricorder, for example, both types are used.
That would be something that is inherent from CoreRPG and not something that can be resolved with the ruleset. Until something is done at that layer, I would suggest trying to copy and paste into a text editor and changing them to a standard apostrophe.
Well, using the Tricorder example, it looks like the text that is put into descriptions of talents or items can use a straight apostrophe within the ruleset, but the things that come from the book are locked so we can't edit them ourselves. It would be nice if future books just use the straight apostrophe when they're written to avoid the issue.Quote:
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I can add it to my list to investigate and see if I can find a solution.
When I *click* the question marks that have tooltip popups for attributes and disciplines, I get the following error in chat: "UtilityManager.sendToHelpLink - Missing URL". The tooltip popup appears to be working properly (in that when I mouse over the question mark, info on the attribute/discipline pops up).
That is on my list. They aren't meant to be clicked and should just be mouse over tooltips.
I also found similar issues with the support character tokens. I created a support character, and when I clicked on its portrait to change it, it changed portraits and tokens for itself and the "parent" character. When I drag-copied it to another character, it didn't change until I changed the second character's. Changing a copied support character sometimes didn't change the parent character and sometimes the parent didn't change a copied support character. Opening the "Assets" window and dragging from there to a portrait/token on a character seemed to force the character (support or parent) to keep the dragged choices no matter what other characters did.Quote:
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This was sort of a haphazard testing, so I don't have specific steps/reproductions, but can do it again with actual methodology if needed.
Thanks, this was reported and it's being looked into. Thanks for the report.
The talent "The Ushaan" doesn't include the Starfleet Delta when it describes the Ushaan weapon. It looks like FG doesn't support the delta in an actual font, so I think it should use dC6 to notate that as other talents do (I think The Ushaan is the only one missing the dC6).
Please let me know the module you are seeing this as it helps direct it to the correct developer and makes it easier to find.
I was able to locate it in the Core Rulebook. I will push an update for this when the beta goes LIVE with the ruleset.
Trying to add a PC to the ship in the party tab gives an error (creatChild a nil value - typo?), adding NPCs does work.
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Script execution error: [string "..rek Adventures 2d20:..anager_charship.lua"]:750: attempt to call field 'creatChild' (a nil value)
(recreated in a new campaign)
Apologies, you are correct, I didn't spell createChild correctly.
Pushed hotfix for this issue.
The talent "Know My Ship" (in fantasy grounds core module) should be "I Know My Ship" (per core rulebook page 137).
I've updated the Core Rulebook module with the change for the typo. Will be available with the next update push.
I just ran 'The Rescue at Xerxes IV' last night. It was my third time. I recall there being NPC records included for the Neanderthals, Xerxes Jaguar, and Dr. Heidi Schipp. Text in the story clues me in that there should be.
*edit This is from the Core Rulebook
That is correct, there should be 3 NPC records available with the starting adventure with the Core Rulebook (The Rescue at Xerxes). I opened that module and could locate those records under the NPCs link in the library and they show up in the sidebar button (masterindex) as well. Are they not showing up for you?