Hacking the enhancements

[UtherSRG]

I tried hacking in Warchanter so that I could plan out a Bard/Barbarian using this enhancement, but it didn't show up in the enhancement list. I had added the text at the end of this post to the enhancement file between "Bard: Music of the Dead" and "Drow: Melee Attack". What did I do wrong?

PARENTHEADING: Bard: Specialty;
ENHANCEMENTNAME: Warchanter I;
DESCRIPTION: Your studies into war have granted you a +2 bonus to your Intimidate skill. Your Inspire Courage song gains an additional +1 to attack rolls, +2 to damage rolls, and +1 to fear saves. If you possess the Barbarian Rage ability, you gain +1 use per rest. You also gain the ability to expend a use of Bardic Music to grant all nearby allies damage reduction 5/-.;
CLASSLIST: Bard;
LEVEL: 6;
PROGRESSION: 16;
COST: 4;
ICON: InspiredAttack;
NEEDSALL: Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack I, Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage I, Enhancement: Bard Inspired Bravery II, Feat: Power Attack;
NEEDSONE: Feat: Weapon Focus: Slashing, Feat: Weapon Focus: Piercing, Feat: Weapon Focus: Bludgeoning;

[RonHiler]

Hmmm, looks right. Let me put it in myself and check it out.

[RonHiler]

Okay Uther, I have it figured out.

What you put in was right. The problem lies in the prereqs:

NEEDSALL: Enhancement: Bard Inspired Attack I, Enhancement: Bard Inspired Damage I, Enhancement: Bard Inspired Bravery II, Feat: Power Attack;
NEEDSONE: Feat: Weapon Focus: Slashing, Feat: Weapon Focus: Piercing, Feat: Weapon Focus: Bludgeoning;

Specifically, the feats. The program is designed to turn off all enhancement lines with feats as prereqs that haven't been taken. This is why (for instance) you cannot see the Fighter Toughness I-IV unless you are both a fighter AND have already taken Toughness as a feat. The enhancement line won't show up, and it's not supposed to.

But now we get to the bug. If you remove the NEEDSONE line and run the program, the enhancement won't show up until you take the Power Attack Feat (from the NEEDSALL line). That works exactly how I want it to.

But if you have the NEEDSONE line in, the enhancement ought to show up if you have Power Attack and any one of the other feats. Unfortunately, it seems as though thte NEEDSONE line isn't playing nicely with the routine that determines if an enhancement line ought to be visible or not. Even if you take all three of the NEEDSONE feats, it still won't show up right. So it's really borking something having multiple feats in the NEEDSONE line.

So, basically, it's a bug, and I need to fix it.

Honestly, every time Turbine puts in new enhancements lately, they make them more and more complex in terms of prereqs, and I have to code in more stuff to handle them. Wish they'd cut it out already

As a workaround, take out the NEEDSONE line until I get it fixed, and just be mindful of the prereq you need (i.e. one of the Weapon Focus feats).

[UtherSRG]

Ah. Ok. I'll try it out tomorrow.

Gee... and I've been trying to get the devs to make the "Specialty" enhancements even more diverse.... like Way of the Archer for having some combination of 6 levels of ranger and/or rogue.

[UtherSRG]

Hrm... I moved "Feat: Weapon Focus: Slashing" up to the NEEDSALL line, and removed the NEEDSONE line and it still didn't work. So I bet that it is "Slashing Weapons"...

Indeed it is. So I restored the NEEDSONE line, and added "Weapons" to each of the WF feats, and it now works properly.

Score: 0 bugs, 1 typo

[RonHiler]

Really? Sweet! So what does the NEEDSONE line look like now?

[UtherSRG]

NEEDSONE: Feat: Weapon Focus: Slashing Weapons, Feat: Weapon Focus: Piercing Weapons, Feat: Weapon Focus: Bludgeoning Weapons;

[RonHiler]

Ah, right, gotcha. That makes sense. Thanks for doing the detective work for me on that one. Cool that it was just a silly omission.

[UtherSRG]

No sweat. It was my mistake in the first place.

Hey, if you wanna farm some of the data file work off to me, just let me know....

[RonHiler]

No sweat. It was my mistake in the first place.

Oh that's right, you did put it in, not me, hehe. My mind is off in outer space sometimes