[Pcgen-trackers_Docs] [ pcgen-Documentation Bugs-1936418 ] Add note: Spell file CLASSES tag can take Subclasses

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Documentation Bugs item #1936418, was opened at 2008-04-06 23:26
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Category: Documentation Clarification
Group: For 5.14
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Maredudd (maredudd800)
Assigned to: Maredudd (maredudd800)
>Summary: Add note: Spell file CLASSES tag can take Subclasses

Initial Comment:
Taken from PCGenListFileHelp: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PCGenListFileHelp/message/15695

> -----Original Message-----
> > Not a bug... you cannot assign spells to a subclass, nor has PCGen
> > ever been able to (at least via the CLASSES tag in the spell.lst).
> 
> Then it is a docs bug? Lists Enchanter in the example.

Wow, didn't see that... but I do believe that would be a doc bug, especially
given Tom's comment on how they are keyed.

IIRC, I discovered this while working on some WotC subclass or another long
ago, so I've done it the way I detailed in my last message ever since.

Flagging for the Tracker Monkeys.


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Comment By: Maredudd (maredudd800)
Date: 2008-04-07 10:22

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I've reopened this tracker as the original intent was incorrect.

Sublasses can be included in the CLASSES tag with a caviat as stated
below, compiments of taluroniscandar:

[BUG]Re: Classes and Subclasses and Spells

> > 5.13.10 and in my opinion after reading this, a bug.
>
> Not a bug... you cannot assign spells to a subclass, nor has PCGen
ever been
> able to (at least via the CLASSES tag in the spell.lst).
>
> And it really doesn't need to... you give the base class the
spells that
> every subclass has, via SPELLLIST or entries in the spell.lst file,
and then
> use KNOWNSPELLS in the subclass lines to add those spells (to the
*base
> class* list) that are not the same among all the subclasses.

Incorrect.
Not a bug.
User is not adding all the necessary tags.

You can do this. The RSRD Psion DOES this.

You just need to add the subclass to the SPELLLIST tag
SPELLLIST:2|Psion|Telepath

SPELLLIST:2|Wizard|Abjurer

SPELLLIST:2|Bubba|Gump
SPELLLIST:2|Bubba|Shrimp

Place the SPELLLIST tag in the subclass lines not in the class lines.
See the Psion for a working example.


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Comment By: Michael Gray (mhgj)
Date: 2008-04-07 10:03

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If the info about subclass being used in the CLASSES tag was removed,
please put it back.

subclass etries are valid there and have been so for over three years.

Make a note to add the subclass to the SPELLLIST tag in the relevant
subclass writeup. That is what was causing the problem.


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Comment By: Maredudd (maredudd800)
Date: 2008-04-07 00:20

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Docs updated.

svn #5829

Tracker to be closed.

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