[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Feature Requests-1268890 ] Gestalt characters

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Feature Requests item #1268890, was opened at 2005-08-24 14:42
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>Priority: 3
Submitted By: Paul W. King (kingpaul)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Gestalt characters

Initial Comment:
Unearthed Arcana allows for gestalt characters. Could 
PCGen be updated to allow this mixing of classes?

Paul W. King
TM SB, OGL/PL Chimp, Data Gibbon, BoD

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>Comment By: Paul W. King (kingpaul)
Date: 2005-08-24 19:14

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Ah. I didn't realize that the code couldn't track separate
class levels concurrently.

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Comment By: Devon Jones (soulcatcher)
Date: 2005-08-24 17:50

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the problem is in the data.  there is no way the current
data is written for me to determine even which things I
should compare with one another to give you the best
progressions.

each gestalt combination is really a new class - the only
way I think we are ever going to be able to do gestalt is to
have people enter in the class they want.

If you use gestalt, you *can* jsut add your charcter's
gestalt class in the lst.

I don't see another way to do it without significantly
changing how the data works.

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Comment By: Paul W. King (kingpaul)
Date: 2005-08-24 17:44

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Can't even do it via a plug-in? I wasn't expecting you to
redo the entire code.

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Comment By: Devon Jones (soulcatcher)
Date: 2005-08-24 17:00

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More importantly, becasue of the near infinite possibilities
here, it means that gestalt would require us likely to scrap
significant portions of pcgen and re-architect the whole
thing form the ground up to support it.

Sorry, but code wise, gestalt is a pipe dream.

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Comment By: Paul W. King (kingpaul)
Date: 2005-08-24 16:00

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Which is why I had it at 6 instead of higher. My logic was that 
this is from a WotC source, hence 'official' in many people's 
eyes. Yes, I know there are xRD stuff that still needs 
implemented, and they should be higher.

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Comment By: Eddy Anthony (eddyanthony)
Date: 2005-08-24 15:36

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I gotta agree with Tir here. in every discussion in the BoD and outside of it 
this feature has been evaluated as very dificult to do as well as not in high 
demand. As long as there are areas in the core materials in need of code 
development (and there are a few) then this needs to be on the back 
burner.

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Comment By: Andrew McDougall (tir-gwaith)
Date: 2005-08-24 15:26

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Why is this P6?

To me this is a matter of a lot of code and design work for
a niche.  I hate to mention it, but I'd be more inclined to
support SS monster progression POS than Gestalt. because of
all the complexities Gestalts would need.

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