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HeroCreationLab / hero-creation-tool

Step-by-step module tool for creating 5e characters in FoundryVTT
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V11 Request - Background item type for Races #149

Closed FredXVI closed 1 year ago

FredXVI commented 1 year ago

With the update to foundry V11 they have added a background item to the game. The background item allows you to setup races with selections and prompts for their subraces. I would like the background feature type to be added to the available race options in the creator. Below is a picture of two types of items. One is a race as a race feature attached to the item, and the other is a background with advancment preset. The builder will not acknowledge the background feat type as valid. image

FredXVI commented 1 year ago

image To my understanding it would be re-defining what the hero creation tool acknowledges as a available object type for race from a feature to a background. From there you could pull features from the advancment of the object but that is more like a bonus. I just am looking for this bare bones functionality.

ccjmk commented 1 year ago

Hi @FredXVI ! thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I think you might be misunderstanding Backgrounds here, because they are.. literal backgrounds! If you see the Backgrounds compendium provided by the system by default, you will see that it contains only Acolyte, and the accompanying feature "Shelter of the Faithful"; this is one of the backgrounds as defined in the Player's Handbook, pg 126-127, and the only background available in the freely available SRD (System Reference Document, available HERE (page 60-61), the stuff people can use from 5e without having a commercial agreement with Wizards of the Coast... almost, not a lawyer here so this is layman speech)

And you CAN select the background in the "Backgrounds" tab btw.

Races will be expanded once the system implementation provides a Race item with Advancements, that should happen semi-soon! https://github.com/foundryvtt/dnd5e/issues/342

FredXVI commented 1 year ago

I was not aware that dnd5e was looking to add a feature with advancement to the races of the game, as that is ultimately what I am looking for at the end of the day. Hense the idea to use the background feature type as it DOES offer advancement in this category. I will say I was not saying to replace the feature type, but mearly to permit the system to check for other object types in the section. I appreciate you bringing the development for races with advancements to my attention I was not aware of this.