Rules within Rules

**Giomancer** · May 25th, 2015, 20:52

Let's say, for example, that I create a ruleset for Legend of the Five Rings. L5R uses the Roll/Keep system, which is used by two other games I know of, but isn't used as a system unto itself. Is it possible to create a basic archive that could be used by L5R, but kept separate for someone to use in a 7th Sea ruleset, yet *does not* appear in the campaign list?

**Moon Wizard** · May 25th, 2015, 22:55

Not currently. I thought that would be a nice expansion for later. Sort of a "libraries" feature for rulesets. It's not currently on our roadmap though.

Cheers,
JPG

**Giomancer** · May 26th, 2015, 22:28

I thought of a neat way to do this (from a ruleset dev standpoint, anyhow) in the base.xml:

Code:

<root ...>
    <display name="" visible=0 />

..you'll notice I snuck in a "name" string, too! I know, I'm terribly subtle. =P A setup like this is (hopefully) easily backwards-compatible, since if the <display ...> tag doesn't exist, FG can default to its current behavior (name is archive/directory name, visible is 1).

Obviously, writing the code would be a different matter entirely.. I'll have to check out the wishlist in your sig, too.

- Gio

**Trenloe** · May 26th, 2015, 22:55

Originally Posted by Giomancer

I thought of a neat way to do this (from a ruleset dev standpoint, anyhow) in the base.xml:

Code:

<root ...>
    <display name="" visible=0 />

Can you expand on what this actually does and how it would be used?

**Giomancer** · May 27th, 2015, 04:47

Originally Posted by Trenloe

Can you expand on what this actually does and how it would be used?

Well.. as I wrote it, <display> contains name="", which would allow FF to display a name in the new campaign list different from the archive name. The visible variable says whether or not the name will be visible in that list at all.

EDIT: It's just the first run of an idea, and I didn't try to check it very well.

**Trenloe** · May 27th, 2015, 05:13

I'm still unsure as to what you're trying to accomplish. But, hey, run with it...

**damned** · May 27th, 2015, 07:15

Possibly its related to the other post... the Display Name for the Ruleset in the Ruleset list in Create Campaign is derived from the Archive or Folder name containing the Ruleset...?

**Moon Wizard** · May 27th, 2015, 07:40

The name of a ruleset is always the name of the folder or PAK file it was loaded from.

Regards,
JPG

**Valarian** · May 27th, 2015, 07:47

I've got a roll/keep die handler in my Yggdrasill ruleset, in the community rulesets folder in my signature. Yggdrasill uses a system where you roll a number of d10 and keep 2 (normally), or 1 if wounded. You may be able to do something with that for L5R. I query the results, finding the highest two, and then rebuild the dice element to only show those dice.

**Giomancer** · May 28th, 2015, 00:19

Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

The name of a ruleset is always the name of the folder or PAK file it was loaded from.

Regards,
JPG

I understand. It was an idea of how it might look from the xml side if ever implemented, that's all.

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