Hey, so I'm creating my homebrew world with several homebrew races; however, the snippet post on these forums is the equivalent of attempting to read Japanese. I'm hoping to get some help with this to help me understand it better. The first issue I'm having is with getting the racial bonuses to appear properly for the example I'll use my subrace which gives the player a +2 to Wisdom and a +1 to an Ability score of their choice. (I'm unsure if there is a way to create a drop down menu with snippets? Also, is there any other things Snippets are useful for in making things appear on the Character Sheet? Thank you in advance for your help!
Snippets don’t actually add any features, nor do they create stuff like dropdowns. They are basically little “snippets of code” that can automatically do math to display within text on the character sheet. That’s really all they do. Like, you know how some class features on the character sheet periodically include a number or XdX displayed in bold in the middle of the regular text, and those numbers automatically increases as you level up or improve stats or whatever? Those are snippets.
For those Racial Ability Bonuses, those need Modifiers, specifically the following Modifier:
Modifier: Bonus->Subtype: [Ability]->Fixed Value: X
So you would add the ”Bonus->Wisdom->2” modifier to the base Race as part of its own Trait since its what the Base Race contributes to character creation. Then your Subrace would get the following;
(You could just add both to the aubrace, but then you would need to add the Modifier that grants the +2 Wis to every subrace.)
Also, there’s generally no need for snippets on Traits like that since those Racial Traits usually get the “Hide on Character Sheet” box checked to keep the clutter to a minimum for the players using those races. Since snippets are only intended to display txt on the character sheets (as opposed to Descriptions which never display on character sheets), and since those Traits don’t need to get displayed on character sheets at all, including anything in the snippet fields for those traits is a wast of effort.
Hey, so I'm creating my homebrew world with several homebrew races; however, the snippet post on these forums is the equivalent of attempting to read Japanese. I'm hoping to get some help with this to help me understand it better. The first issue I'm having is with getting the racial bonuses to appear properly for the example I'll use my subrace which gives the player a +2 to Wisdom and a +1 to an Ability score of their choice. (I'm unsure if there is a way to create a drop down menu with snippets? Also, is there any other things Snippets are useful for in making things appear on the Character Sheet? Thank you in advance for your help!
Snippets don’t actually add any features, nor do they create stuff like dropdowns. They are basically little “snippets of code” that can automatically do math to display within text on the character sheet. That’s really all they do. Like, you know how some class features on the character sheet periodically include a number or XdX displayed in bold in the middle of the regular text, and those numbers automatically increases as you level up or improve stats or whatever? Those are snippets.
For those Racial Ability Bonuses, those need Modifiers, specifically the following Modifier:
Modifier: Bonus->Subtype: [Ability]->Fixed Value: X
So you would add the ”Bonus->Wisdom->2” modifier to the base Race as part of its own Trait since its what the Base Race contributes to character creation. Then your Subrace would get the following;
”Modifier: Bonus->Subtype: Choose Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, or Charisma->Fixed Value: 1”
(You could just add both to the aubrace, but then you would need to add the Modifier that grants the +2 Wis to every subrace.)
Also, there’s generally no need for snippets on Traits like that since those Racial Traits usually get the “Hide on Character Sheet” box checked to keep the clutter to a minimum for the players using those races. Since snippets are only intended to display txt on the character sheets (as opposed to Descriptions which never display on character sheets), and since those Traits don’t need to get displayed on character sheets at all, including anything in the snippet fields for those traits is a wast of effort.
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