[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Feature Requests-1305070 ] SPELLS tag enhancements

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Feature Requests item #1305070, was opened at 2005-09-27 04:16
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Category: Spell Support
Group: For 5.12
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Eddy Anthony (eddyanthony)
>Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: SPELLS tag enhancements

Initial Comment:
This is a proposal for enhancements to the SPELLS tags.  This is 
related to the Spell chooser feature as the changes I propose would 
provide a way for the spell chooser (once we have one) to pass the 
choice to the SPELLS tag so it will output as such.

Part A. Spellbook name and spell name to accept substitution.

This would allow two things, it would enable the spells tag to use 
%CHOICE as the spell which would then be the chosen spell for 
EQMODs or Abilities. This would provide a way to output a spell 
block for custom equipment which cast spells like wands, staffs, 
you name it. Because the caster levels and DC's of spells in 
equipment is set at the time of creation and these vars are available 
in the EQBUILDER.SPELL chooser that info could be pulled and 
added to those properties since they already take variables. There's 
only one that doesn't or at least not fully, but that brings me to..

Part B. TIMES property to specify hours, days, weeks (etc..) 
or # of charges

There are a few examples in the RSRD of creatures with SLA's 
which can be used in intervals other than days. Some can cast 
theirs x per 'hour' or x per 'week'. So we need a way need a way to 
change this, additionally to get SPELLS to work in an EQMOD it will 
need to take %CHARGES. The syntax I'll suggest is to add a 
second optional property to TIMES delineated by a comma. I.e.

|TIMES=x,HOUR| for x per hour or
|TIMES=x,WEEK| for x per week or
|TIMES=%CHARGES,CHARGED| for x number of charges

For completeness we could have:
HOUR, DAY, WEEK, MONTH, DECADE, CENTURY and CHARGED

Examples:

This would be used in the Wand EQMOD:

SPELLS:Wand of %CHOICE|
TIMES=%CHARGES,CHARGED|
CASTERLEVEL=%CASTERLEVEL|
%CHOICE,10+(%SPELLLEVEL/2)

This would be used in the Archmage High Arcana Spell-Like Ability:

SPELLS: Archmage Spell-Like Ability|
TIMES=2|
CASTERLEVEL=var("CL=Archmage")|%CHOICE,10+INT

To get this to work in an EQMOD some changes will need to be 
done. SPELLS will need to be enabled to work from EQMOD files, it 
does not currently. The CHOOSE:EQBUILDER.SPELL will need to 
be able to output a spell name variable, when used with this chooser 
%CHOICE outputs the whole range of spell properties the chooser 
allows on to select. So the LST "SPROP:Wand of %CHOICE" will
produce this on output:

Properties:Wand of SPELLNAME[Create Water] CASTER[Adept] 
SPELLTYPE[Divine]
SPELLLEVEL[0] CASTERLEVEL[1] CHARGES[50]

I'm unsure if just the name can be pulled from this chooser, 
%SPELLNAME and SPELLNAME did not do the trick.

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>Comment By: James Dempsey (jdempsey)
Date: 2006-08-20 00:53

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Currently under discussion on pcgen_experimental.

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Comment By: Eddy Anthony (eddyanthony)
Date: 2005-11-21 03:40

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I know we started talking about some way of adding other units to the spell
frequency... 

Has anything been done on this?

Ones I've run across and would like to be able to cover 
(including those we can do already marked with *):

1 every x:
Rounds
Minutes
Days (*)
Weeks
Months

At will (*)
Continual

Barak

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