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You guys are welcome! Thanks for the suggestions. I will brush up on my lua coding - I am really bad with parsing code.Quote:
Originally Posted by Myrdin Potter
Give me some examples of how you want the attack line to read so I understand how it's different. Do you want it to be exactly like 5e? PCs and NPCs? That level of complexity might not be worth the effort, but I like a challenge. :)
Oh, my god, Leo is really going over the edge now. Someone call Arkham Asylum and let them know.
I think that the key things that are needed is the framework for the modules so that we can easily cut and paste text into them.Quote:
Originally Posted by leozelig
I have converted enough adventures for 5e and DMed enough 5e games to know what I like - the automation of the attack role (hit or not hit with modifiers applied) and the automation of the spells that do direct damage that all run well from the combat tracker for the NPC and for the character tracker.
The ruleset itself seems very functional and I think you did an excellent job. Slowly adding more to it is good, but an easy framework for all of us to create reference manuals and spells and equipment in a good format so that we can drag and drop links into character sheets and adventures would be good. Anything that auto-populates onto the combat tracker is good. I think the easier it is for GM to create content and run games, the more that will use the ruleset. Hopefully my nudge to Goodman games results in something. In theory, I am about a 30 - 40 minute drive from their San Jose location, I can always picket them. :-)
I also think that increased and built in functionality for handling funnels and other pure DCC mechanics is great.
Well I doubt it will ever be shared - compatibility with the combat tracker and party sheet is highly unlikely without a lot of work that I don't plan to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by vodokar
Funnel adventures can get pretty crowded on FG with 3-4 PCs per player. For the last funnel I hosted, I shared images of the purple sorcerer sheets. We had 1 FG character sheet per player for making attack rolls and stuff. It was a little clumsy...
Yes, hence why npc sheets are more the direction to go. Player logs in with a character that is named for themselves. You drag and drop npc sheets onto their character portrait. They receive and can control these npc sheets as their characters. npc sheets are already compatible with the combat tracker. Not sure about the party sheet, but that's not really that important.
Thus, if you can make modifications to the standard npc sheet, you can make this work. The level 0 sheet doesn't need to be fancy. They won't live long enough to appreciate it. ;). Similar to the standard npc sheet format with just simple attack line etc. Keep it small in size so that the player can comfortably have all four open at once, but functional enough to have the information they need.
And the character that survives and becomes the PC then gets recreated on the character sheet.
Maybe make a monster that is a "zero level" template as well?
Great idea, Myrdin.
You guys are getting carried away now :)
Nah, actually just trying to save you some work. Repurpose what functionality already exists.
See screen capture image attached: I tried editing the client.xml file by copy and pasting the code block in the first red rectangle and putting it in the section inside the second red rectangle and changing the spell name, level, description, etc., but I'm pretty sure I'm doing it wrong. Is there any chance you could show me where/how I should be entering the spell data. Even if it was just a screen capture of part of your working client.xml file I can figure out what I'm doing wrong -- once I see what the code block is supposed to look like I'm perfectly content to fill in the blanks myself. I apologize, I'm not much of a coder.Quote:
Originally Posted by leozelig
Thanks in advance
Of course - I will post an example later, maybe swapping in some SRD spells so I don't anger the copyright gods.
That'd be great. It could even be "foo, foobar" in place the actual text and that'd be fine. I'm just struggling with the syntax and where to put things.
I used the bless entry from the SRD as an example. Let me know if this doesn't clarify it for you...
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Originally Posted by leozelig
Hi I'm getting some errors - I can't rename NPCs, and get red text on opening most images.
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Ruleset Error: window: No vertical anchor defined for control (nonid_name) in windowclass (imagewindow_header)
Ruleset Error: window: Control (isidentified) anchoring to uncalculated control (nonid_name) in windowclass (imagewindow_header)
Are you running the latest version of FG? I ran a game 2 days ago with no errors.
Yeah, I'm running FG V3.2.2. and DCC V2.8.
I downloaded the latest version of the module and that fixed an issue with duplicating the side bars, but now it seems that both the maps and the NPC's generate errors to do with their names - and I can't rename new NPC's.
Its odd.
3.2.2 is not the latest version of FG - it is still a test version :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Grey Hunter
It breaks most 3.2.1 rulesets in some way....
Dammit, I must still have test versions checked from the last update that broke the 40k ruleset I was using. I'll see if I can roll back!
Thanks for the help!
Leo, just to give you a heads up. If you haven't tested under 3.2, they moved a lot of things around and changed things in corerpg which is going to cause some bugs.
As predicted the update has caused errors for DCC pack.
Ruleset Error: window: No vertical anchor defined for control (name) in windowclass (table_header)
Ruleset Error: window: No vertical anchor defined for control (name) in windowclass (table_header)
Ruleset Error: window: No vertical anchor defined for control (name) in windowclass (table_header)
I think Leo already has the fixes ready, but hasn't pushed them yet. Community developers are never notified prior to these things going live, and are usually gone at our day jobs when they do.
Updated to v2.9
I fixed an error with critical hit determination (again). Otherwise, this is mostly a compatibility update for FG 3.2.2.
Uploaded a minor bug fix, a very basic class record, and additional string fields for spell records (general, manifestation, corruption, and misfire).
Screenshots below...
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Oh, just great. Now I'm going to have to re-do everything. Stomp Stomp. You couldn't have done that like 4 months ago. ;) He he.
I had the same thought as I spent a couple hours rearranging a bunch of stuff in my module file :DQuote:
Originally Posted by vodokar
Seriously though, I had a thought. Can you add a second tab, similar to how some npc sheets in rulesets are, that accepts formatted text. This could be used to put the spell check tables.
Done. Good suggestion. The download link is the same as above.Quote:
Originally Posted by vodokar
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I love it. Will be nice to be able to have it all in one convenient place.
Taking a look at implementing a more permanent list of items in the software finally and noticing that the fields don't change anymore depending on the item type. In a previous version of the ruleset, one could state 'weapon' or 'equipment' as type and the fields would change depending on the item type designated. Any chance that could be implemented again or a radio button/toggle to switch between types? Selecting 'weapon' type for instance doesn't currently bring up and fields for inserting dice for damage, and attempting to create items in the character sheet doesn't keep any of the data if dragged to the Items window.
Thanks for doing regular updates!
I will check it out. Did you try capitalizing 'Weapon' or 'Armor'? I wanted it to be a little more customizable with the text field rather than string cycler, but if it isn't working, I will change it back.
Yeah, I was case-sensitive when typing it in and it's not doing anything to change the fields.
Working on it. It is definitely supposed to switch fields for Weapon and Armor types, so something is broken.
Fixed bug with fields not showing on the item record for types weapon and armor.
Download here.
Seems to be working again now, thanks for the quick update!
You know this already since it happened in the game tonight, but dragging and dropping a result from the chat window to a creature in the combat tracker throws a script error.
There was a game tonight? Why am I not receiving notification of such? I would have loved to have reprised the roles of the ShatterBreaker Brothers.
It was a simple fix before. I don't know why it is broken again, but I will figure it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Myrdin Potter
hey vodokar, good question :)
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...PM-EST-(GMT-5)
I seem to recall that the Shatterbreaker bros. are now the Shatterbreaker bro.
I was about to point out the LFP post. :-)
It is amusing to be a player in the ruleset developer's game and toss up an error. It is also fun to play sometching that is not 5e and not worry so much about all the automation that does not exist. The DCC ruleset is quite good, automates the key things and the rest you just do manually.
It does need auto elf to dwarf taunting, though. Maybe next version. :-D
Not sure how I missed the posting. I'm usually watching the forums like a hawk. The last episode we were able to make was The Doom of the Savage Kings when we just entered into the dungeon. Both Brothers were still alive at that point. Anyway, it was totally unintentional to miss after that one; I was going thru some really tough and dark times during the making of my ruleset at the time and it just slipped my mind. Since then, I had been hoping to get back into the game if possible.