5E - Friend Zone

[MeAndUnique]

The primary challenge is that the formatting and text is different in every release, so the logic for the Steel Defender fails to interpret the Drake Companion correctly. While some things I may be able to address in a future update, it probably will be a little while before I have the opportunity to. (Perhaps Zaccaeus has the ability to and could be convinced to standardize the templates a bit ). In the mean time you should be able to get close with the following:
Armor Class - Add "+PB" before the parenthesis.
Hit Points - Already works so long as the creature is added to the cohort list first then the combat tracker.
Hit Dice - Work the same as HP if the Constitutional Amendments extension is also present.
Saving Throws - Add "(+PB)" after the number for each one.
Bite Attack - Change "plus PB" to "+PB" for both the attack and damage text to automate.
Breath Weapon - change "DC (spell save)" to "DC Players".

All damage type selections will have to be handled outside of any Friend Zone automation, as will the discrete improvements gained at 7th and 15th level.

[micael]

HI,

thanks for your help- I tried to change all the things you mentioned in the template, renamed it, but your formulars are not functioning- means you only see the text without calculating anything- I tried the Steel defender template and there you also see only the text- nothing is calculated: Also the hp are not calculated correctly with Constitutional Amendments. Of course I dragged the npc template into the cohort drawer of a character of my campaign as DM.


Thanks
Micael

[micael]

Hi MeAndUnique,

any chance for an update to your ext- seems that most of the automatic functions are no longer available (see above)?

Thanks
Micael

[MeAndUnique]

HI,

thanks for your help- I tried to change all the things you mentioned in the template, renamed it, but your formulars are not functioning- means you only see the text without calculating anything- I tried the Steel defender template and there you also see only the text- nothing is calculated: Also the hp are not calculated correctly with Constitutional Amendments. Of course I dragged the npc template into the cohort drawer of a character of my campaign as DM.


Thanks
Micael

This sounds like there is a conflict with another extension at play; with only Friend Zone and Constitutional Amendments loaded I am seeing everything work as intended with the Steel Defender. Likewise, with one possible additional edit (see below) everything is working as intended for the Drake Companion. In order to help address the problems you are encountering I will either need to know which extensions is in conflict or detailed steps to produce the problem in a clean campaign with only these two extensions loaded.

For the Drake Companion HP, the line on the Other tab that describes the hit points will need an apostrophe added so it reads as "...the ranger's level". However, this should only be necessary for the purposes of multiclassing to ensure the drake only benefits from levels in the ranger class.

[micael]

I have a lot of ext, but deactivated them all except Friend Zone and Constitutional Amendments (modules I have also a lot but they should do no problems?)- and still drakes and steel defenders are only shown *PB as text?

Thanks
Micael

[MeAndUnique]

I have a lot of ext, but deactivated them all except Friend Zone and Constitutional Amendments (modules I have also a lot but they should do no problems?)- and still drakes and steel defenders are only shown *PB as text?

Thanks
Micael

I guess I'm misunderstanding the problem. The intended functionality is that the PB text is parsed along with the rest of the text for the purposes of calculating the resulting numbers correctly, however it does so without actually changing the associated text. So what is expected is that indeed the Saves or AC should retain the PG text, however the calculations when attacks and saving throws are made should account for the caregiver's proficiency bonus being added. Same for attacks and damage, and most other text, which will otherwise continue to behave as they normally would on the NPC sheet.

[micael]

Ah, yes ok then its functioning- all except the hp and DC Players- they are not counted correctly and DC players can´t be rolled at all- its just text- steel defender has still 3hp in template and drake only 15 instead of 20 in lvl3.
Any idea why? Do you mean the Players= Name of player for and last name or just the text "DC players"? And not in the other sheet but on the main sheet, yes?
Thanks
Micael

[MeAndUnique]

Ah, yes ok then its functioning- all except the hp and DC Players- they are not counted correctly and DC players can´t be rolled at all- its just text- steel defender has still 3hp in template and drake only 15 instead of 20 in lvl3.
Any idea why? Do you mean the Players= Name of player for and last name or just the text "DC players"? And not in the other sheet but on the main sheet, yes?
Thanks
Micael

Hmmm, for the hit points I guess try right clicking and selecting "Reparse Hit Points". For the DC that is my bad, I mistyped it sorry. It should be a "DC Player Dexterity saving throw" (no 's' in Player).

[micael]

Thanks but reparsing is not functioning with hp instead an error message is coming: error, radial: can´t find menu icon (heal) spell- infact I don´t understand where FGU should know how many hp is the right one? No formular for hp given?
thanks
Micael

[ErikDWick]

EDIT: The recent FGU hotfixes seem to have solved the issue proving it was not a problem with Friend Zone or with Constitutional Amendments. Cheers!

After the most recent FGU update this extension is no longer working.

My compiled logs:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p4li9fdhhw...30228.zip?dl=0