How do I set the Ability that a new Skill is based on?

**Minty23185Fresh** · January 1st, 2019, 18:22

If I add a new Skill to my campaign there doesn't seem to be a way to associate it with its corresponding Ability. It seems as though there should be an Ability field on the record editor.

In the following screenshot I have created a new Skill. But I can't associate it with an ability. There is no field to do so.
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The entries in the Player's Handbook have such fields, here are the contents of the Acrobatics Skill when "disassembled" by some custom lua (note the "stat" field):

Code:

s'reference.skilldata.acrobatics.text@DD PHB Deluxe' | s'<p>Your Dexterity (Acrobatics) check...
s'reference.skilldata.acrobatics.stat@DD PHB Deluxe' | s'Dexterity'
s'reference.skilldata.acrobatics.name@DD PHB Deluxe' | s'Acrobatics'

Or I can glean the same information by dragging the Skill from the PHB to the (New) Group on the Skills Recordset Library dialog:
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And then looking at the db.xml file:
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**Zacchaeus** · January 1st, 2019, 19:03

Indeed. I just did some experimenting thinking it might pick up the stat from the wording (Your Intelligence (Awesome) check) but it doesn't. I don't know if this is intended, the implementation for adding an ability just wasn't added or whether there is a bug somewhere. But Moon Wizard will know.

**Minty23185Fresh** · January 2nd, 2019, 00:49

Originally Posted by Zacchaeus

Indeed. I just did some experimenting thinking it might pick up the stat from the wording (Your Intelligence (Awesome) check) but it doesn't...

Thank for the confirmation Zacchaeus! I tried that too before submitting, sorry I should have mentioned it. It would have saved you some time.

Ya can work around this issue of course, by hand editing the db.xml file. But that’s a bit unfriendly

**Trenloe** · January 2nd, 2019, 05:37

The reference.skilldata... record is not used to construct the skill in the PC sheet. The reference record is primarily used to match the lookup when the link next to a skill is clicked - to provide additional informational data regarding the skill.

You could manually edit a skill record to add the ability, but then you'd need to drag/drop that skill record to every PC created to add that skill. This may be what you want, I don't know if you're wanting to add a new common skill that every PC has or a rare skill that only some have.

If you are looking at a common skill all PCs have, all of the base skills that are added when a PC is created are defined in the DataCommon.skilldata LUA table, this includes the ability the skill uses. More information on how to add custom skills in this thread: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forum...n5-Suggestions

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