5e - Glancing Blows houserule & Damage Adjustment Tags

[rhagelstrom]

Sure thing!

The extension is Better Combat Effects Gold by Grim Press.

https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/155/view

It does a whole bunch of stuff, but the conflicting thing happens with their automated Sneak Attack. Its set up so that if you have the Sneak Attack effect on you, a one-use DMG bonus is added to your next damage if you hit with an attack with a qualifying weapon for Sneak Attack. It also automates sneak attack damage for you based on your Rogue levels.

With both extensions active, if you make an attack with a creature with the Sneak Attack effect, something flares up and throws an error message. The attack will still roll and show if it is a hit or a miss, but the sneak attack automation won't trigger correctly. This error is thrown whether or not you qualify for sneak attack (like if you have disadvantage or no ally near the target).

Looking at the BCEG conflict, it seems GB is overriding onAttack but never calling the original, which we can work with if you need it that way but I'd also suspect there are more conflicts with other things not yet discovered.

[ThatDudeOverThere]

Update: version 1.0.2 seems to be working as intended with the latest version of Blissful Ignorance.

[ThatDudeOverThere]

Looking at the BCEG conflict, it seems GB is overriding onAttack but never calling the original, which we can work with if you need it that way but I'd also suspect there are more conflicts with other things not yet discovered.

If you have any specific re-writes to propose we are willing to work with you to get it fixed. Unfortunately none of thus actually use Better Combat Effects Gold and so we are unable to test for compatability. We aren't unwilling to make changes, we just don't currently have access to the extension to know what changes to make, or to ensure they actually work.

As it is a paid extension I can't just download it to test for compatability. I personally can't justify paying for an extension I don't use, to fix a compatability issue with an extension we are giving away for free.

[rhagelstrom]

If you have any specific re-writes to propose we are willing to work with you to get it fixed. Unfortunately none of thus actually use Better Combat Effects Gold and so we are unable to test for compatability. We aren't unwilling to make changes, we just don't currently have access to the extension to know what changes to make, or to ensure they actually work.

As it is a paid extension I can't just download it to test for compatability. I personally can't justify paying for an extension I don't use, to fix a compatability issue with an extension we are giving away for free.

I put in a PR on your GitHub earlier today for your review that resolves the issue and should keep GB from butting heads with others in that area.

[BlazingAzureCrow]

Just popping in to note that I'm still having conflicts between this and Blissful Ignorance. Was this confirmed resolved?

[BushViper]

Just popping in to note that I'm still having conflicts between this and Blissful Ignorance. Was this confirmed resolved?

Having the same issue.

[BushViper]

The Glancing Blows extension prevents the DMGR code from Better Combat Effects Gold from functioning.

I don't know if there are any other conflicts, but this is one I came across personally.

[BushViper]

Turns out that Glancing Blows also prevents the Rob2e Mirror Image extension from functioning as well.

I love the concept and intend to keep using glancing blows, but my group decided to go back to tracking it manually because there are too many conflicts with more comprehensive extensions.

[BushViper]

I assume this ext has been abandoned given that the conflicts persist?

[rhagelstrom]

I assume this ext has been abandoned given that the conflicts persist?

You can try my branch https://github.com/rhagelstrom/Glanc.../bceg-conflict I put in a pull request a while back on the Authors GitHub.