Core Ruleset Alteration Help

[Von Stalhein]

Hi all,

I'm planning on running some FATE using the CoreRPG Ruleset. I was wondering if/how I might alter the main page of the char sheet so that there is just one (wider) column instead of two? (I'm talking about the skill/ability list with the one-line fields that have a modifier at the end.) Any advice/instruction would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks,

VS

[Blacky]

The cleanest way would be to create a new ruleset, that would import the CoreRPG ruleset, and then add in this new ruleset a few changes. That's the new 3.0 layering (cascading) ruleset thingie.

As for those specifics changes, you'll need to alter the sizing and positioning of these zones in the XML file. A specialist will probably tell you were exactly…

[Trenloe]

Have a look in \campaign\record_char_main.xml - in the "charsheet_main" class, the "skills" <list_charskill> entry that is used for the skill.

The "list_charskill" template is contained in \campaign\template_char.xml - where the columns with a width of 225 is defined.

As Blacky says, you are best doing any customisation by layering on top of the CoreRPG ruleset. Have a look at the 3.5E.pak ruleset which is layered on top of CoreRPG.

[Von Stalhein]

Thanks for the information! I've created a new ruleset that imports CoreRPG (handy that it takes just one line of code!) and then also points to its own "template_char.xml" with the alteration to the width, and the result is exactly what I wanted. Many thanks for the advice!

[Trenloe]

Many thanks for the advice!

No problem - glad you got it working OK.