PFRPG Spell Description Formatting

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Originally Posted by bmos

I can probably make a 'compatibility patch' version of this for the interim :)
Hopefully the job hunt takes you somewhere good, although months without salary is quite a bummer.

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thanks :)

ah, an interim patch would be super cool :D

Turns out I was able to do the patch in the main extension!
No real need to integrate the two, really. Much easier than I thought.
v1.1.7 is here :)

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Originally Posted by bmos

Turns out I was able to do the patch in the main extension!
No real need to integrate the two, really. Much easier than I thought.
v1.1.7 is here :)

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ah, very cool, thanks a lot :D

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Originally Posted by bmos

Turns out I was able to do the patch in the main extension!
No real need to integrate the two, really. Much easier than I thought.
v1.1.7 is here :)

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I tested this with the PFRPG - Spellbook, and both extentions loaded, and it works great. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by dllewell

I tested this with the PFRPG - Spellbook, and both extentions loaded, and it works great. Thank you.

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Thanks for the confirmation, any community testing is greatly appreciated :)

I made huge improvements to the code this morning.
No changes to functionality, but here is v1.2.
57 additions and 386 deletions to keep things nice and trim/tidy.
It's now 5.18 KB instead of 8.34 KB :D

v1.4 now released.

• Better detection of spells for automatic upgrading of their spell descriptions.
• Checked compatibility with upcoming Tuesday update.
• Cleaner code

I don't know why, but when I use this extension with modules that I created for a campaign, all the spell descriptions of custom effects and consumable items that I created for specific NPCs disappear. The spell descriptions of the PFRPG - Spellbook are kept for the NPCs that I dragged & dropped these spells to. When I deactivate the extension, the descriptions come back immediately. This is quite peculiar and impeded some of my games since I was clueless at that time as to why the descriptions I wrote in the module were simply not there when they were loaded in my playing campaign. I only found out today that it was indeed this extension that was problematic. Any idea as to why this happens? Should I do an extra step while exporting my modules or is there a specific description layout needed to carry over when the module is loaded?

Note that I haven't created a spell entry for the custom effects for the NPC's.
Also, the spell description of the PFRPG Action Library that I dragged & dropped in NPC's disappear too.

I am using FGU

Thank you very much for your help.

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Originally Posted by Khoredran

when I use this extension with modules that I created for a campaign, all the spell descriptions of custom effects and consumable items that I created for specific NPCs disappear.
When I deactivate the extension, the descriptions come back immediately.

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That's because this extension hides the 'true description' and fetches the (usually better) fully-formatted description from the spellbook module.
I can update it to have it bring over the real description when it doesn't find a match from the spellbook, I think that would solve your use case.
I have filed this as issue #5 and am looking into it now. Strangely I do have code to do this already, but something must not be triggering it correctly.

That would be amazing! Thanks to you, I now understand why my issue occured and it might help other people out there that wanted to use this extension but got missing descriptions when using custom-made modules! I am very impressed by the quick response and I'm eager to download the updated version of the extension that will work for me.