How To - create a Help Action
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, February 24th, 2017 at 02:23 (25722 Views)
Entry to show how one might go about creating items / feats / traits within the Character Sheet's Action Tab; to allow a player to track the usage of certain things that have effects.
In this particular case we will create a Help Action; to be used when you want to help another player during a skill check, or an attack.
Within the screenshots below the red boxed objects are where you need to focus to create this item within the Actions Tab.
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- Click the Edit List icon
- Click the Add Power icon
- Need to type 2 things in the 2 circled textboxes:
- New Spell or Ability textbox type "Help Action"
- In the other unnamed textbox type "Regular Actions" - this will change the name of the group from Powers to Regular Actions
- Click the Stop Editing List icon
- Click the Mode textbox until it changes to Combat then click the Display textbox until it changes to Actions, then mouse over the Help Action and right-click to open the radial menu and select Add Action
- The radial menu selections have changed, now click the Add Effect option
- You need to do step 5 & 6 one more time as we are creating one effect sub-action for helping with a check, and helping with an attack
- Time to configure each of the 2 effect sub-actions:
- Click the 1st effect's magnifying glass icon to open the Spell / Ability Effect dialogue popup window
- Type ADVCHK into the Description textbox
- Within Duration click and select the textbox and type 1 as this effect will only last for 1 round of combat
- Within Targeting / Expenditure click the Expend? Textbox and select the On next action option
- Close the Spell / Ability Effect dialogue popup window by clicking the X in the upper right of the popup
- Repeat steps 7.1 to 9 to configure help attack effect; wherein the only difference is step 7.2 and we must change ADVCHK to ADVATK
- Click the Magnifying Glass icon to minimise the effect sub-actions, and note that you’ve 2x effect icons
- Mouseover each effect icon to bring up a tooltip text to help identify the Help Action type
- Time to enter the PHB description for Help Action, so click the Shield icon and a new dialogue popup will open that needs to be populated as indicated in this screenshot
- Finalise the PHB description by clicking the Padlock icon and we are DONE!
To use Help Actions within your session do the following:
- Ensure that your Character Sheet’s Action Tab is in the Mode Combat Display Action
- If you are assisting your Fighter to do a Strength / Athletics check, then before the fighter rolls, drag / drop the ADVCHK effect icon to the fighter’s avatar in the CT
- When the fighter rolls, they will automatically receive advantage on the roll, at which point the effect you added to the fighter will disappear from the CT