Effects library

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Originally Posted by jshauber

I am new to FG and seem to have most things down thru trial and error and watching youtube vids as guides. One thing that still eludes me is the effects and how to apply them.

I downloaded and unzipped the file but not sure what to do with it next? It doesn't show up in my library and I am not sure how to get them into the game.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is about the last hurdle I need to get over to really enjoy all aspects of the program.

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These are not exactly 'necessary' they are just a way of making use of some of the effects found on the FG Library Page. This looks like you actually don't want to 'unzip' it.... you should change the .zip extension to .mod and put it in your 'modules' folder. Then, inside FG, go to the Library and activate it as a module. After that these effects should be available when you click your effects button at the upper right of the screen.
Effects in general can be easily made by using the information on the web page I pointed to above. These effects can be added to spells to be applied to characters during combat. I'm pretty good with these and would be glad to give a tutorial sometime if anyone is interested.

So I think I am being dense, but how does this mod work? One of our players is a Barbarian, so I drag the Barbarian Rage item from the list onto their character in the combat tracker. It shows up on the list, I can click the on/off item on it, but it doesn't seem to do anything - STR/CON stay the same, as does the AC. Am I missing a step? Or does this merely work as a countdown tracker and I have to create a /Mod shortcut that applies the changes myself?

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Originally Posted by Illrigger

So I think I am being dense, but how does this mod work? One of our players is a Barbarian, so I drag the Barbarian Rage item from the list onto their character in the combat tracker. It shows up on the list, I can click the on/off item on it, but it doesn't seem to do anything - STR/CON stay the same, as does the AC. Am I missing a step? Or does this merely work as a countdown tracker and I have to create a /Mod shortcut that applies the changes myself?

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Effects only come into play when a roll is made - so STR will only apply to attack, damage and strength based skill checks. DEX will be applied to ranged attacks, dexterity based skill checks and will also modify AC when attacks are made against that the person with the DEX effect active.

Make a few rolls and you should see something like [EFFECTS: +2] in the chat window when the roll is reported.

This means that you have to make the appropriate rolls from the character sheet/NPC sheet/CT for the effect to kick in.

Ah, that makes sense. I guess it means adding temporary hit points manually when Rage kicks off, but I can deal with that. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Illrigger

I guess it means adding temporary hit points manually when Rage kicks off, but I can deal with that. Thanks!

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Don't use temporary hit points as these are used up first when damage is dealt to the Barbarian - see this thread (and the one it links) for more info on this (post #7 in particular): http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums...ll-effect-quot

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Originally Posted by Illrigger

So I think I am being dense, but how does this mod work? One of our players is a Barbarian, so I drag the Barbarian Rage item from the list onto their character in the combat tracker. It shows up on the list, I can click the on/off item on it, but it doesn't seem to do anything - STR/CON stay the same, as does the AC. Am I missing a step? Or does this merely work as a countdown tracker and I have to create a /Mod shortcut that applies the changes myself?

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What Trenloe said...plus it does not change any values on the character sheet.

Best thing I am finding is to just play around with stuff for a bit, maybe get someone to log on and be a player so you can see things live. Trial and error is working for me. Just putting in the effects and trying them shows me syntax errors so I know how things should be constructed.

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Originally Posted by jshauber

Best thing I am finding is to just play around with stuff for a bit, maybe get someone to log on and be a player so you can see things live. Trial and error is working for me. Just putting in the effects and trying them shows me syntax errors so I know how things should be constructed.

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You can also simulate a player logging in by starting another instance of FG on the same computer as the GM running the campaign and connect (join game) with a host address of localhost - this will load up as player and will allow the GM to see what the player sees and can control a PC from the player side.

For those of you who are interested in effects I've thrown together an extension for the 3.0 PFRPG ruleset that adds alignment as a condition. This allows the IFT (IF Target) conditional effect to be used for alignments (if the alignment has manually been added as a condition to the target), allowing things like a Paladin's smite evil to be coded as an effect and only trigger if the target is of a specific alignment - based off the manually added alignment condition.

See this post for details and the extension: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...l=1#post168789

I can't seem to get knowledge skill bonuses to work anymore.. am I doing it wrong or is it broken? Anyone know?
I've tried:
SKILL:1 knowledge arcana
SKILL:1 knowledge (arcana)
SKILL:1 knowledge:arcana
SKILL:1 knowledge [arcana]
I'm sure I had this working before at some point.. but it just won't seem to work.. anyone know what I'm doin wrong?

It's not you. There were some minor changes to the effects system to adapt to all the other damage and heal changes, and multi word skill bonuses broke. Working on a patch.

Cheers,
JPG