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.