I don't know if this was intended, but when I was making a variant of one of my races, it shows all the parent features in the character builder. Like for example, the Ability Score Increase is supposed to be slightly different between the two, but instead of getting the one from the variant race, I instead get both ability score increases. Is this a bug or is there something that I was missing. I feel like I should have just made this subrace as its own race. Now I deselected it as a variant, but its still showing the parent features in the builder. And I know it isn't because the homebrew hasn't updated, because I then decided to disable the Ability Score Increase for the Parent Race, and while that disappeared, the rest of the features offered by the parent race was still there. I also changed the name of one of the features and that changed as well within the maker.
I'm guessing this is something that's supposed to happen though, isn't it?
When you made the features for the variant race, you have to indicate for each one which features they replace from the original. I’m guessing that you never designated which ones replace what, so it just gave you everything instead.
Once you re-edit the variant, make sure to save the whole thing again using the main save button so it triggers the system to pick up the changes.
When you made the features for the variant race, you have to indicate for each one which features they replace from the original. I’m guessing that you never designated which ones replace what, so it just gave you everything instead.
Once you re-edit the variant, make sure to save the whole thing again using the main save button so it triggers the system to pick up the changes.
Oh, you're right about the not designating. This was my first time making a variant race, so I just expected it to make me make all the features over again. But yeah, that was the problem.
I don't know if this was intended, but when I was making a variant of one of my races, it shows all the parent features in the character builder. Like for example, the Ability Score Increase is supposed to be slightly different between the two, but instead of getting the one from the variant race, I instead get both ability score increases. Is this a bug or is there something that I was missing. I feel like I should have just made this subrace as its own race. Now I deselected it as a variant, but its still showing the parent features in the builder. And I know it isn't because the homebrew hasn't updated, because I then decided to disable the Ability Score Increase for the Parent Race, and while that disappeared, the rest of the features offered by the parent race was still there. I also changed the name of one of the features and that changed as well within the maker.
I'm guessing this is something that's supposed to happen though, isn't it?
When you made the features for the variant race, you have to indicate for each one which features they replace from the original. I’m guessing that you never designated which ones replace what, so it just gave you everything instead.
Once you re-edit the variant, make sure to save the whole thing again using the main save button so it triggers the system to pick up the changes.
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Oh, you're right about the not designating. This was my first time making a variant race, so I just expected it to make me make all the features over again. But yeah, that was the problem.
Happy to help.
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