Building out spell effects for NPCs

**tadkil** · October 25th, 2015, 01:37

I've figured out how to add spell effects for PCs. For example, Bless was relatively easy to figure out how to add and build just based on the interface and the wiki.

How do you add this sort of spell effect to a monster? I spent about an hour trying to build out Bless for the Eye of Gruumsh and could not figure out what I was missing. What are you recommendations & is there some documentation I am missing for effects?

Thanks,

Tad

**Moon Wizard** · October 25th, 2015, 03:52

There's no current way to automate this effect right on the NPC sheet. The internal spell parser gets about 90% of the spells correct, but won't handle certain ones including bless.

There's some new code in v3.1.3 that will automatically set up the PC sheet with the correct effect, but it has to override the text parsing to do it. This means I can't use the same mechanism for the NPC effect parsing inline. I may be able to do something to get it to add to the CT when NPC added though. Let me look at it.

In the mean time, the formula in the CT entry for bless should be [EFF: ATK: 1d4; SAVE: 1d4; (C) (D:10)]

Cheers,
JPG

**tadkil** · October 25th, 2015, 04:15

Thanks Moon Wizard.

**epithet** · October 25th, 2015, 06:10

What's the (C) for?

**Willot** · October 25th, 2015, 06:30

Concentration I assume. You can only (generally) have one concentration spell at a time.

**tadkil** · October 26th, 2015, 21:15

Guys, where's the best tutorial/documentation for writing spell effect formulas?

**Zacchaeus** · October 26th, 2015, 21:47

Well you can try here and here and also here and here too.

Note also that the forthcoming version 3.1.3 (in test) has all of the spell effects built in so that they can be dragged and dropped and just work..

**tadkil** · October 27th, 2015, 00:24

Originally Posted by Zacchaeus

Well you can try here and here and also here and here too.

Note also that the forthcoming version 3.1.3 (in test) has all of the spell effects built in so that they can be dragged and dropped and just work..

Thanks Zacchaeus. Looking forward to the drag & drop, but I always want to feel like I have mastery. Thanks for the direction.

**Zacchaeus** · October 27th, 2015, 11:48

Test version now also includes overrides so spells that previously didn't auto parse now do when dragged into the NPC sheet.

**GunnarGreybeard** · October 27th, 2015, 12:12

Originally Posted by Zacchaeus

Test version now also includes overrides so spells that previously didn't auto parse now do when dragged into the NPC sheet.

That's definitely going to be helpful.

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