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Create Button for Substitude Abilities #961

Open patrickmohrmann opened 2 months ago

patrickmohrmann commented 2 months ago

Description A button shall be available on Character and NPC sheets to trigger improved abilities. Clicking on the Button "Improved ability" shall open up a selection in the roll prompt which will then be rolled based on the related attribute.

The choices are:

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ChristopherSD commented 2 months ago

I don't think a button is necessary. I'd image we handle this via edids, meaning, rolling the ability normally automatically checks for these things. Thoughts?

patrickmohrmann commented 2 months ago

the thing is, usually most actors don't have bribery for example, so i see only two options:

  1. add those abilities as options in the roll prompt if one of the ability is rolled (the down side is, that players need to know which ability is substituded with which attribute)
  2. add a button with 20 options to trigger a roll

I don't see the ed-id is helping since we need a point to trigger this in the first place

ChristopherSD commented 1 month ago

I don't think a list of 20 buttons helps, since you still need to know what the ability is that you're looking for.l And then, a they can just look for it in their sheet (even easier with a good search function there). This can only be changed if there's some kind of trigger, as you say, that initiates the process in question, which I don't see as part of the system code itself. This should rather be a macro or something, and there, edids can be used. E.g. bartering:

  1. Click Macro: Start Barter
  2. Optional: Select Actors
  3. Get "barter" abilities by edid of all involved
  4. Start the bartering improcess
  5. conclude
patrickmohrmann commented 1 month ago

The difference between your option and my option is that there are 20 Macros vs. 1 Button with 20 Choices. only to be sure to be on the same page. this is what i envisioned Image

ChristopherSD commented 1 month ago

Okay. I think I probably don't understand the original story here 😅 What is the use of having a button to select an ability to roll instead of just clicking on the ability to roll it?