Sooo, attack formatting in the present GURPS ruleset??

[Honken]

So I am restarting my GURPS Traveller campaign fairly soon, and it would be nice to just drag and drop skills and attacks from the NPC's. Do anybody remember how the formating was supposed to be for it to work?

Thanks in advance!
/H

[Andraax]

You just drag and drop the level. It's like "14" for a level of 14. Damage on weapons is identical to that in the book: "5d pi" for example, is 5 dice piercing.

[seycyrus]

It seems to be,

Skillname (level):[attack type damage damageType, reach]

example

Shortsword (10):[swing 2d cut;1]

Edit: that's a comma near the end. I previously had it as a semicolon.

[Andraax]

I just always use the GCA export filter, so I don't even know what's it's supposed to be. :-)

[seycyrus]

I use the CGA export filter as well, but I do something wrong, and sometimes have to fix things manually.

[Honken]

Thank you for that! It worked wonders. in the Attacks field, you have to type "Skill ():[type damage damtype;reach]". If you want more then one attack you separate with either ',' or ';' no space. So it would be


Brawling (13):[punch 1d-2 cr;C],Brawling (13):[bite 1d-2 cr;C],Brawling (11):[kick 1d-1 cr;C],SmallKnife (12):[swing 1d-3 cut;C],SmallKnife (12):[thrust 1d-3 imp;C]


This works at least, i don't get to roll the damage, though rolling the skill is a good start.

Now for Ranged attacks... Any idea on format? I tried the same kinda deal, but only gets :

Script Error: [string "scripts/npcrangedfield2.lua"]:112 attempt to concatenate global 'rate' (a nil value)

/H

[Herodian]

Once you have the formatting correct, you can drag from the box to roll the attack, and hold alt and drag from the box to roll damage from the same line. While that is handy, getting the formatting correct is so tricky and arcane that I only bother with it on all but the most important NPCs.

[Honken]

So no one has any idea on how the ranged attacks should be formated?

/H

[Andraax]

I exported one of my PCs from GCA as an NPC and imported into the GURPS ruleset. This is what shows up, seems to work:

Assault Carbine (Trinity)() (14): 4d+2 pi, Acc4, Range 400/3000,RoF 15,Rcl 2

[Honken]

Ahh, nice, thanks. And from what i remember, exporting the characters was a bit of fiddling too, was there a special option you had to use or something?

/H