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Thanks for the fast response.
After updating I get a different error:
[12/22/2025 10:54:27 AM] [ERROR] Script execution error: [string "CallOfCthulhu7E:..skill_specializations.lua"]:19: attempt to index field 'name' (a nil value)
The details form doesn't open but an empty row is added to the list; after that I can normally edit the empty row.
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Pushed another fix live to address this.
Fixed
thank you very much
I'm running into an issue with adding points to the Cthulhu Mythos skill is not reducing the max sanity. I have tried it with a fresh campaign with nothing loaded, just the base CoC ruleset. Is there something extra I need to do?
Pushed a fix to address your report.
The issue is fixed. Thanks for the fast turn around.
I have an issue with the Chase tool, it doesn't work anymore for me. Delete hazard button has disappeared, I only have the option to add new one. Hazards doesn't show up on the footsteps graphic above and I'm getting a console error when locking the chase. I'm running all the latest updates for Fantasy ground and Call of Cthulhu ruleset
When posting please provide the compiled logs to help us see what you are experiencing. I'll try and see if I can replicate.
here's the compile log
thanks
Thanks, will be huge help. I'll take a look.
Pushed an update to address the errors you were seeing.
Dit that and it still doesnt work even in a new out of the box campaign. Additioanally I get some error when I drag a chase to combat tracker and it doesnt show. I'm sure it was working a few months ago.Attachment 66181Attachment 66182Attachment 66183
I didn't know it was having trouble in the combat tracker. I focused on the record, please be a bit more elaborate when reporting to help make sure the exact issue is being looked into. I'll look this over when I have a free moment.
I'm going to need more time with this. I'm not quite understanding what was being done from the previous developers and need to work through it a bit more.
I'm in need of knowing how data is supposed to be laid out for the chase feature. Can you post a link of your zipped up campaign so I can do some testing with my changes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Livius21
There’s a video that may help with you understanding how chases work.
Thanks! it's not the process of the chase, but how the data is stored and saved in the campaign. Don't want to break chases in action if I don't use the same node names.
So I'm not the only one experiencing this problem?
Like I said before the chase editor is broken. The hazards were showing in the small footprint graphic at top of window. There is also the remove (-) button for hazard that has now disappeared. Chase not adding to combat tracker is also another problem. Just try to replicate what the video is showing. If it can help, I have bought Fantasy ground and Cthulhu module in may 2025 and it was all working at this time so I'm guessing that some patch done after this is causing the problem. Many thanks for your help
Heres my zipped out of the box campaign.
thanks
(2nd attempt at posting, 1st one seems to have been lost)
Hello,
I've some problems with skills in character creation:
1 - "Fighting (Brawl)", "Lang - Own" and "Credit Rating" are marked as professional skills even before chosing a profession. It's not possible to add a sublabel to "Lang - Own". IMPORTANT NOTE: this seems to be fixed in the update I downloaded today: only "Credit Rating" is always marked as professional skill, and the sublabel of "Lang - Own" is again editable.
2 - If an occupation has a choice of a skill with fixed sublabel (ex. Entertainer with Art/Craft (Acting)) the skill is NOT added to the skill after occupation selection.
3 - "Lang - Own" base value is no longer calculated on the INT of the character but is always a NULL value.
4 - Skills marked as [UNCOMMON] always appear in the skill list.
5 - It's impossibile to mark/unmark a skill as occupational (if I try to fix point 2 by manually adding Art/Craft (Acting) to the list I can't then mark it as occupational)
6 - it's impossible to remove a skill from the list unless it has been added with one of the buttons atop the list. (can't remove UNCOMMON skill manually)
7 - If a profession has "Lang - Own" as occupational skill, the skill doesn't get marked as occupational nor the sublabel selected is added after been chosen in the occupation mask. NOTE: This changed in my last update, before that a second line with the correct sublabel was added to the list in addition to the fixed one with the uneditable sublabel (still a bug probably, but different). Still the base value is not correctly calculated.
8 - Pretty much the same of point 7 happens with Fighting (Brawl): the already present line in the list doen't get update with the occupational mark if the occupation you choose has it as occupational skill.
I've tested everything on a newly created campaign with only References, Base Manual & Investigator Manual loaded.
I'm pretty sure that none of this beahavior was present some weeks ago, but not really sure when the changes happened with the exception of point 7 that changed with the update I downloaded today.
Thanks
I've address most of that with the latest pushes. Have you updated recently?
Can you edit your post a bit more as to what is not working and remove the things that are working from the update?
2) I tested this with artist and seems to be working fine, Can you give me an example occupation to test this with that you are seeing it in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnerman
3) will be fixed with next update
4) This is intended behavior moving forward till I can find a better solution in the code for how they handled it
5) It was intended that skills would be updated as occupation skills through the profession record. I just shored up that behavior
6) See 4. They are intended as default skills moving forward
7) See 3
Just downloaded the update and re-tested on a new campaign:Quote:
Originally Posted by superteddy57
2 - both Entertainer & Author from the Investigator Handbook; the art/craft line is not inserted.
For more clarity, all the skills written in the occupation code like the example below are not inserted:
<id-001>
<skill type="string">Art/Craft (Acting)</skill>
</id-001>
Lua line extracted from a copy of the Entertainer entry of the Investigator Handbook.
3 - "Lang -Own" is no more NULL but is calculated on 1/2 INT instead of 1xINT.
4 to 7: ok, I can understand the change but at the moment the lack of possibility to manually edit the list is quite a problem: take the example of the art\craft line missing, I can easily solve it by adding it to the list and then mark it as occupational, but atm the only way I can do that is by manually edit the db.xml.
IMHO is better to leave the list editable, at least to the Keeper.
EDIT: tried to post this 3 time this morning (Italy time zone) but all three post have been lost, this one worked flawlessly. This happened with my last post too, there's some kind of time restraint on posting or somenthing like that?
First please stop sending multiples of the same report. They are being flagged for moderation and you may not be seeing them show. I am able to see all the previous posts. It's flooding the forum.
2) I've updated the professions in the core rulebook to no longer use the parenthesis and use the sublabel in the skill to work cleanly with the system. For custom professions, using the parenthesis is not possible and thusly I went to a unified system. If any other modules have this I will be happy to update them. Just let me know which modules need updating.
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3) The recent update I just made will address this.
4 to 7) The list hasn't changed in function to what it was before I did a clean up. The list sets default skills from the eras and ensures these can't be deleted by mistake or on purpose. If a skill is added by an occupation, you can delete it from the link of the occupation from the character sheet. This is where you are able to adjust those skills. If you delete the skill from that list it will delete it from the character sheet. In any case, the GM is able to delete default skills from the sheet as requested with this update.
First, sorry for the multiple post, but I was under the impression of something not working on my side because the first post didn't appear for a whole day, at that point I tried repost it, and it appear immediatly. So I've assumed that the correct beahavior was the second one, while the not appearing was an error. Sorry, not an expert on forums, I usually avoid them like the plague ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by superteddy57
2 - Ok, tested with base occupations and the skill get inserted, but Lang - Own (Author occupation) or Fighting Brawl (Soldier occupation) doesn't get updated as occupational skills. The Investigators Handbook needs to be updated, I was testing everything with those occupations.
3 - yep, fixed. Thanks.
4 - Ok, followed your instruction and it actually updates the occupational check (with the exception of Lang - Own and Fighting Brawl). If you change a sublabel the old one remain in the list , but with the delete enabled it takes a millisecond to fix. Thanks.
Sorry, just noticed another problem: usually if an occupation has Lang - Own as on occupational skills the occupation have 9 skill entry and not 8, example: the author occupation of the base manual is missing a free choice skill.
EDIT: forgot to add that is fixable by adding the skill in the profession selection tab, so is a very low priority fix, but can be misleading if you don't pay close attention to it.
No worries about the extra posts, just wanted to let you know the system was to blame on this one.
I'm still working on the Lang Own / Fighting Brawl issue of making it an occupation skill. But glad the others are working. I'll need a bit of time to sort that one.
Sorry, it's me again.
Was doing some test to align my translation extension to the changes and stumbled on a oversight in line 42 of char_skill.lua:
local bBrawl = DB.getValue(nodeSkill, "label", "") == "Fighting" and DB.getValue(nodeSkill, "sublabel", "") == "Brawl";
Not an urgent fix, since it probably affects only me ;)
Pushed to using the Interface.getString function call instead.
First bit hopefully helps with context of problems on the Chase system. :-) Second bit is the problem I am having.
First: Please note, I removed all mods and am only running a base game for all the testing below. I have a game I have been running since August of 2024. I had some problems after the last rounds of patches with my players, and they were having errors whenever I would add a creature to the combat tracker. See below:
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So I was debugging today, and found that if I removed these lines from the DB.xml on each of the characters the error went away:
<activatechase type="number">0</activatechase>
<chase type="number">0</chase>
<chaseposition type="string">3</chaseposition>
I had to remove this from the old characters (5 of them) that have been in the campaign a long time, the newer character (no chase had been initiated, only one of them as one of the players had died late last year) did not have those. Once I removed those lines from all the combat tracker entries for the players in the DB campaign stopped causing errors. I probably should have done an easier method and removed the characters by right clicking and deleting them, then adding them back normally, it seems to have done the same thing fixing the issue (tested that after the XML edits). :-) Seems the old chase data was laying around in the combat tracker.
Second Bit: I then went to try to create a new chase, and I get another error. :-/ So I created a new campaign raw with a test character, a test chase, dragged the chase onto the player and then I tried the "Menu" then "Chase" then "Clear Chase" from the combat tracker, and I get the error below on either my old campaign or the new fresh one.
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I'll have a look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amerisun
Pushed a fix to address the chase issue you were running into.
There's still something going on with Chase in Combat Tracker. There's some kind of error when trying the Clear Chase Button and also the Roll NPC Speed Checks
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pushed a fix to address your report.
Yes it's now working as before!
Many thanks sir
the Survival skill is missing from the character sheet
Thanks for the report. I'll have a look.
I've found a couple of new bugs, the game is now all broken. All skills specialization have now disappeared from the sheet on the skill tab and its now impossible to add new one from the add new language, art & craft, figthing, science and firearm buttons at the top of the sheet.
Also creation of a new character is all bugged when trying to set occupation skills. Occupation Points from attribute selection is not limited from the choice you should have for that occupation. Occupation skills drop down lists are all empty from that same occupation window, so impossible to complete that part of character creation. For example , Soldier should have occupation point equal to 2X EDU(+DEX x 2 or STR x 2). climb or swim should be available next to occupation skills.
This is all tested with a out of the box Call of Cthulhu ruleset (2026-03-05) with no modules loaded
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I'm having the same problem. I can no longer create a character. When opening the Occupations tab, every occupation is missing its skills, including those from the Investigators' Handbook.Quote:
Originally Posted by Livius21