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Hi guys,
After todays update you might get Character Sheet errors on making attacks. Please do one of the following:
open your Armor, unlock it and add a Min STR - use 0 if not listed in the rules
delete your Armor and add it back in from Equipment
Thanks!
The following posts describe some recent changes to the ruleset. These changes impact NPC records, item (armor) records, and combat mechanics. I will explain each one in detail.
The contents of the traits tab and the attacks tab for the NPC record have been changed from unformatted text to formatted text. If you have created your own NPC records, then you need to update those manually. The following image shows how. First, unlock the record. Second, copy and paste the text from the upper slot to the lower slot. Third, and formatting such as bold font as you desire. Eventually, the upper slot will be removed. Please make any changes before then.
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Armor now includes a MIN STR requirement. If a character does not meet the minimum requirement, then a penalty is automatically imposed on melee and ranged attack rolls.
This value needs to be set on existing PC character sheets. Either edit the item record, or delete and re-add the armor to the PC. The default value of zero is not displayed (shows as empty).
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Effects have been added to the ruleset as records in the Core Rulebook Player. The following image shows adding an effect to a PC sheet. The effects automatically impose boons / banes on the various attack and challenge rolls. There is a series of boxes to the right of an effect entry. These boxes indicate the number of boons / banes imposed on each type of roll.
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Effects can also be added from the Combat Tracker. This is where you apply effects to NPC actors.
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De is used to set Defense to a specific value. AtB is used to grant a bonus to attackers.
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The above examples use afflictions. The effects system can also be used to handle other aspects of the game, such as bonuses from spells or penalties from the environment. You can add your own directly to the actors as needed. Here is what Blessing would look like. Finally, note that the effects have an on switch. This is useful for dealing with bonuses from cover that apply to some attackers but not others.
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invalid attachement?Quote:
Originally Posted by spoofer
I tried to fix them. They work and then they break. :(
I will try adding them here.
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Ok, I have figured out that when I upload, there is a sequence of mouse clicks that works and another one that messes up the files. If I don't mess them up then they work.
Is the description for Close Wounds right? It doesn't seem to make sense?
No you are right it is incorrect.
The Triggered text is appearing in the Description.
We will get that fixed asap.
There are other affected spells to it looks like.
Thank you for pointing this out. I was not aware of this specific pattern and did not code for it. As damned said, we will fix asap.
I think the link to the reference manual may be broken for Dead by Dawn
Can you post a screenshot of what you are seeing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Skellan
Sure. When I click on Reference Manual it just opens an empty window. It is probably just a broken link somewhere :)
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Thank you for reporting. I have fixed the reference manual, and a few other things, including NPCs. The new version may take a bit of time. We need to work a few bugs out of the revised NPC attack tab before new versions of stuff with NPC data can be released.
Great! Thanks for your hard work
Hi, first I want to say thanks for the hard work. For how new the system is it's working great.
I'm unsure if this best place to ask but I noticed there is a space for initiative in the combat tracker but it doesn't allow me to input a number.
SOTDL doesn't really roll for initiative but there is the option to roll a d6 to resolve conflicts.
With my players coming from 5E they're used to acting individually and the option to give them a turn order would be much appreciated.
Initiative is set as either FAST or SLOW From the main tab of the PC Sheet for PCs, and from the Attack tab inside the Combat Tracker for NPCs. Doing so fills in that space. Turns are completed one actor at a time, individually, as in D&D.
In general, we do not implement options, as we need to need to give priority to the core rules first (which are still yet to be completely implemented). However, I will make sure that Damned is aware of your request. Meanwhile, initiative ties are broken by Agility --- higher Agility goes first.
Ah, thank you. This implementation of SOTDL's initiative is actually pretty good. I'll simply allow players to act in the order they appear in the combat tracker.Quote:
Originally Posted by spoofer
I noticed the effects seem to be duplicating the attack/challenge modifiers. I am not sure if this is a known issue?
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Thanks. I was away for a few days and am working on this issue now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skellan
Hello, and thank you for the ruleset! I'm having issues with effects. I'm new to Fantasy Grounds, so apologies in advance if this is because of my inexperience. As you can see, the applied effects are not affecting the fomor's stats. Attachment 55966Attachment 55965
Since the update today I get following error: Attachment 55967
There is also an empty table : Attachment 55968
Hi Locotomo I apologise the first one is me - I deprecated two files but forgot to remove them from the master list when I pushed the update. They wont affect the game. The empty table has been passed on to the guys doing the content updates. Thanks for the report.Quote:
Originally Posted by Locotomo
Welcome SynmadQuote:
Originally Posted by Synmad
Fantasy Grounds effects do not normally adjust the stats that they effect. What happens is that any rolls using or targeting those stats also check the Effects list and will apply those values as well. Please note we found after the last attacks update that Attack Effects were kind of being applied twice, once if Strength/Agility was effected and once more if Attacks were effected. We have thus today removed Attacks from the Effects values - they are still mentioned in the descriptions and all Effects/Afflictions etc that we found so far that effect Attacks also effect Strength/Agility so we think this will address the issue.
Please note that about the same time you posted your message an update went live - so update again to grab that new build. But note that it contains an Error (see message above) that should not effect game play once loaded.
Thank you for reporting. I reparsed all of the Shadow paths to remove the broken links.Quote:
Originally Posted by Locotomo
The damage from NPCs in modules seems to have disappeared. This seems to be affecting all the modules I have looked at, One Perfect Moment, The Slaver's Lash, The Man who Fell to Urth etc. Monsters & Characters from the core rules are ok.
Yikes thanks for reporting SkellanQuote:
Originally Posted by Skellan
We are working on that right away.
Which adventures are you running right now?
No worries. I am running One perfect moment at the moment but I have the pdf too, so no rush for me.
Gwydion and I have chained poor old spoofer to his desk and anytime he looks like slacking off one of us pokes him with a very big stick.
This was due to the changes in how we make spell and weapon attacks and challenge rolls being more aligned.
We are in the middle of a major overhaul of the NPC attack tab. I updated the core books and supplements first. I am working on the adventures, but as there are a lot of them, it is going to take some time. Give me a week to get through everything. If you an urgent request, please post it.
Stuff like this happening just means you are working to improve the ruleset. No stress, it is cool.
We pushed updates to 10 products last night and James has pushed them live.
Wow, you really do have him chained to a desk ��
Good job ��
Watching him work made me tired and I may dozed off. He must have snuck in and posted while I was cat napping.
I was able to create some tools to automate much of the task. I have updated the NPCs for the adventures.
We have queued up updates for 13 more products. They wont hit till sometime tomorrow.