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TikaelSol / starfinder-field-test

A Foundry VTT module for the Starfinder Field Test playtest for Pathfinder 2nd edition.
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Universal Polymer Base (UBP) - Missing #20

Open 7H3LaughingMan opened 3 months ago

7H3LaughingMan commented 3 months ago

UBPs appear to be the "physical" currency equivalent in SF2e and can be used in place of credits for crafting items. However, they are needed for certain things like Creator Capsules (allows faster crafting) and Explorer's Canteen (turns UPBs into edible nutri-paste). So being able to track them in some fashion would be useful.

TikaelSol commented 2 months ago

I'm not sure what a good way to tackle this even will be apart from just some consumable item, but some future system work may actually end up working well for this so I'm going to see how SpecialResource goes.

7H3LaughingMan commented 2 months ago

A temporary way to handle this would be to set it as treasure that stacks like coins with a value of 1 silver piece. UBP has the same bulk rules as PF2e coins which will allow it to affect a player's bulk properly, only problem with doing it like this is that it shows up at the top of the inventory with a summary of all the coins. But that might be a good thing since you can use them for trade as they are SF2e's cold hard cash option.

CarlosFdez commented 2 months ago

The correct way is to flag it as a material (materials sell for full value). The issue is that we don't have a material type item yet. There was an internal debate on whether we repurpose materials as a subtype of treasure or as a new item type entirely and new item type won.

Treasure can work in the short term though, maybe.