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An implementation of the 5th Edition game system for Foundry Virtual Tabletop (http://foundryvtt.com).
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[Feature Request] Allow items to upcast their ability #1422

Closed aaclayton closed 2 months ago

aaclayton commented 2 years ago

Originally in GitLab by @Merudo

In D&D 5e, a large number of magic items allow the user to upcast/scale their ability by consuming additional charges.

For example, a Wand of Fireballs (SRD) should let the user upcast the Fireball spell, inflicting an additional 1d6 damage per additional charge consumed.

However, the 5e Foundry system does not allow the upcast of item abilities. This makes a large number of magic items impossible to accurately implement in Foundry without the use of complex macros or modules.

One way to solve this problem would be to add an additional field to an item's details page, so that the item's ability can be scaled according to the Charge/Resources consumed.

aaclayton commented 2 years ago

Originally in GitLab by @thingscouldgetdicey1

i had this issue with my games. and it was super frustrating. because you couldnt link charges to upcasting therefore ruining tracking of charges.

aaclayton commented 2 years ago

Originally in GitLab by @playest

I feel that items that can upcast their spells basically works the same as the alternate rule for spell points. But since this is not implemented (as far as I know) in the system I think it's probably a lot of work.