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joatmaos: Nov 26, 2010

Transient People posted:

Coulda swore I saw this before...dunno how I forgot about it.

Anyway, I did that, but then a second error pops up (this same error occurred before actually): C++ Runtime Error 6034. It appears that I'd need to debug the program. How would I go about that?

Does the builder run with out the cb loader? and does it spit out a log file when it gives the error message?

That is a new one on me, might have to uninstall and use the cleanup bat file and then re-install the builder and its files.

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urzafrank: Feb 21, 2011

I just wanted to point out that the assassin power called poisonous shuriken is coded as a melee weapon power when it is a ranged weapon power. could somebody please fix this? or show me how?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 18:56

Mr Beens: Dec 2, 2006

urzafrank posted:

I just wanted to point out that the assassin power called poisonous shuriken is coded as a melee weapon power when it is a ranged weapon power. could somebody please fix this? or show me how?

7 posts before yours

# ? Feb 21, 2012 19:10

Fuxache: Dec 31, 2010

I'm totally missing Binding Initiate from my character builder.

Unless I'm an idiot and just not seeing it...

# ? Feb 21, 2012 19:15

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

joatmaos posted:

Does the builder run with out the cb loader? and does it spit out a log file when it gives the error message?

That is a new one on me, might have to uninstall and use the cleanup bat file and then re-install the builder and its files.

Nope, running the builder causes it to puke the same error out. How'd I go about doing the cleanup?

# ? Feb 21, 2012 21:58

Undrhil: Dec 24, 2010

Just pointing out that the online builder updated yesterday and now contains Heroes of the Elemental Chaos. Also, Dragon 406 and Dungeon something-or-other. Oddly it still does not have War Wizard Expertise or White Lotus Dueling Expertise (or whatever the White Lotus expertise feat was called.)

# ? Feb 22, 2012 21:14

Greyhawk Fan: Dec 14, 2010

Undrhil posted:

Oddly it still does not have War Wizard Expertise or White Lotus Dueling Expertise (or whatever the White Lotus expertise feat was called.)

Here we are at the sunset of fourth edition and they still can't decide if their dragon magazine created items are "good enough" for pushing content live. Crazy!

# ? Feb 23, 2012 02:44

J.B.: Jul 23, 2011

Hello all

So, just a shout out to whomever wrote up the "Infernal Prince" theme from dragon #406. For some reason it isn't adding the +2 power bonus to "bluff" & "Diplomacy" you're supposed to gain at 5th level from that theme. If someone could tell me how to fix this that would be awesome.

# ? Feb 23, 2012 03:37

scpredmage: Sep 2, 2011

Greyhawk Fan posted:

Here we are at the sunset of fourth edition and they still can't decide if their dragon magazine created items are "good enough" for pushing content live. Crazy!

Those feats only recently got finalized, and WotC has been treating new book releases differently than it has Dragon. Worse, they're from an older Dragon issue, and might get overlooked in the next regular update.

It's still kind of sad that they can't get this kind of simple material out in a reasonable amount of time. Hell, they can just get the bloody thing from us and save themselves some trouble...

# ? Feb 23, 2012 07:03

scpredmage: Sep 2, 2011

Alright, here's all 607 RulesElements from the lastest OCB with "Heroes of the Elemental Chaos" as their source (including the source element itself).

Like with the Feywild file I posted, these have NO rules sections, meaning they won't grant powers/bonuses/whatever, and some of the prereqs might not work right in the LCB, but it's a good starting point. Plus, you know, the powers should work without really any work.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49758175/elemental.zip

EDIT: I should probably mention I'm also working on the Elementalist class...

scpredmage fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Feb 23, 2012

# ? Feb 23, 2012 07:38

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

J.B. posted:

Hello all
So, just a shout out to whomever wrote up the "Infernal Prince" theme from dragon #406. For some reason it isn't adding the +2 power bonus to "bluff" & "Diplomacy" you're supposed to gain at 5th level from that theme. If someone could tell me how to fix this that would be awesome.

Fixed.

# ? Feb 23, 2012 14:08

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

scpredmage posted:

Alright, here's all 607 RulesElements from the lastest OCB with "Heroes of the Elemental Chaos" as their source (including the source element itself).

Like with the Feywild file I posted, these have NO rules sections, meaning they won't grant powers/bonuses/whatever, and some of the prereqs might not work right in the LCB, but it's a good starting point. Plus, you know, the powers should work without really any work.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49758175/elemental.zip

EDIT: I should probably mention I'm also working on the Elementalist class...

Starting Epic Destinies and Paragon Paths ...(Done)
Starting Themes

Tivaan fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Feb 23, 2012

# ? Feb 23, 2012 14:13

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

Scpredmage

I added this for the origin, in case u need it.

<RulesElement name="Elemental Origin" type="Racial Trait" internal-id="ID_TIV_RACIAL_TRAIT_ELEMENTAL_ORIGIN" source="Heroes of the Elemental Chaos">
<specific name="Short Description"> You have the elemental origin </specific>
<specific name="Level"> 1 </specific>
Your ancestors were native to the Elemental Chaos, so you are considered an elemental creature for the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin.
</RulesElement>

I couldnt find any reference to an elemental origin ID for some of the prereq. Unless someone else found one besides the "Elemental Origins (Genasi Body)" or "Elemental Origins (Sherigras/Genasi)"

# ? Feb 23, 2012 14:47

scpredmage: Sep 2, 2011

Here's the Elementalist-build Sorcerer.

My apologies for the slight delay on posting this, but I was having some difficulty with the Elemental Specialist features; apparently the LCB doesn't like it when you give statadds level requirements, and was giving me the old "contact customer support" error every time I tried. As a work-around, I created hidden class features that kick in at levels 5 and 15 to grant the resistances and save bonuses.

I think I have it implemented right (otherwise I wouldn't be posting it), but as always I'd appreciate it if someone else gave it a once-over to check for stupid mistakes.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49758175/elementalist.zip

# ? Feb 24, 2012 01:32

SabreCat: Dec 12, 2010; d4 damage with the ill behavior

What syntax were you using for the leveled statadds? I've done plenty of them for house rules, and had no trouble.

# ? Feb 24, 2012 02:29

scpredmage: Sep 2, 2011

SabreCat posted:

What syntax were you using for the leveled statadds? I've done plenty of them for house rules, and had no trouble.

code:

<statadd name="resist:lightning" value="+10" type="resist" Level="5" />

code:

<statadd name="resist:lightning" value="+10" type="resist" requires="5 level" />

The code works just fine without the Level or requires properties (or with a requires for a class feature, which is how it's currently implemented), but every time I tried it WITH them, I got the "contact customer support" message. Took me a while to narrow down the problem to that specific code, too.

And the sad thing is, I've seen code CURRENTLY IN USE that same form without issue.

Also, turns out I had the damage bonus to arcane powers from Elemental Magic scaling wrong; I had it scaling at 11th and 21st levels (like other Spell Sources do), but it's supposed to scale at 5th, 15th, and 25th. Fixed it, and the link in my last post has the updated version.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/49758175/elementalist.zip

scpredmage fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Feb 24, 2012

# ? Feb 24, 2012 05:21

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

Here are the
Epic Destinies
Paragon Paths
Themes

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27143905/parts.zip

please review for errors or omissions

My computer at home is down so I cant check the code properly, but can work on it at work.

Tivaan fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Feb 24, 2012

# ? Feb 24, 2012 21:53

Psych0M0nk3y: May 31, 2011

Was there ever a file put together for the Amethyst books?

# ? Feb 25, 2012 06:47

Transient People: Dec 22, 2011; "When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Darn, finding a way to spawn a manifest for CBLoader is proving harder than it looked - everything I find tells me to recode stuff at a very low level. Anybody know of an easier to way to create a manifest that doesn't require loving with the code, guys?

# ? Feb 25, 2012 09:04

Balesir: Apr 7, 2011

I notice that the ('final') wizard changes from the last "update" aren't in the current fileset; is this something that is in progress, or something I could usefully help out with?

# ? Feb 25, 2012 22:16

disaster pastor: May 1, 2007

I'm trying to add a custom item for one of my players and running into two errors:

A) Adding a power to the item (which is in its own .part file), even copying and pasting from a real .part, causes the builder to break on an alleged invalid 44th character in the line before it.

B) Without the power, the item works, but I still get "Inner Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when the .parts load.

I thought I recalled somebody else having problem B, but I couldn't find it easily.

# ? Feb 25, 2012 23:45

SabreCat: Dec 12, 2010; d4 damage with the ill behavior

tzirean posted:

A) Adding a power to the item (which is in its own .part file), even copying and pasting from a real .part, causes the builder to break on an alleged invalid 44th character in the line before it.

Invalid characers are usually things like ampersands, "smart" quotation marks, and the like. What's the offending line?

# ? Feb 26, 2012 16:44

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

Balesir posted:

I notice that the ('final') wizard changes from the last "update" aren't in the current fileset; is this something that is in progress, or something I could usefully help out with?

if u want to update the wizard stuff and post it, it can be added

# ? Feb 26, 2012 16:45

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

tzirean posted:

I'm trying to add a custom item for one of my players and running into two errors:

A) Adding a power to the item (which is in its own .part file), even copying and pasting from a real .part, causes the builder to break on an alleged invalid 44th character in the line before it.

B) Without the power, the item works, but I still get "Inner Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when the .parts load.

I thought I recalled somebody else having problem B, but I couldn't find it easily.

post ur code so we can look at it

# ? Feb 26, 2012 16:46

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

Ok I believe my puter is now working again (Yay) anyways i am going to post the new files that are completed at this point

themes
pp
ep
elementalist

Tivaan fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Feb 26, 2012

# ? Feb 26, 2012 16:48

disaster pastor: May 1, 2007

I was miscounting lines. The builder chokes on the � character, but as that's directly copied from 03-base-items.part, I don't see why it does.

The full code:

code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<D20Rules game-system="D&amp;D4E">
  <UpdateInfo>
    <Version>1.0</Version>
    <Filename>85-ouritems.part</Filename>
  </UpdateInfo>
  <RulesElement name="Bahamut's Favor +4" type="Magic Item" internal-id="ID_CAMP_MAGIC_ITEM_0001">
    <Flavor> Flavor text here. </Flavor>
    <specific name="Level"> 18 </specific>
    <specific name="Gold"> 65000 </specific>
    <specific name="Magic Item Type"> Weapon </specific>
    <specific name="Tier" />
    <specific name="_Item_Set_ID" />
    <specific name="Armor" />
    <specific name="Weapon"> Axe, Light Blade, Heavy Blade, Spear </specific>
    <specific name="Item Slot" />
    <specific name="Requirement" />
    <specific name="Critical"> +4d6 radiant damage </specific>
    <specific name="Special" />
    <specific name="Power"> Power (At-Will � Radiant): Free Action. All damage dealt by this weapon is radiant damage. Another free action returns the damage to normal. </specific>
    <specific name="_Rarity" />
    <specific name="Enhancement"> +4 attack rolls and damage rolls </specific>
    <specific name="Granted Powers" />
    <specific name="Rarity"> Uncommon </specific>
    <specific name="Property"> This weapon adds an additional +1 to attack rolls against Infernal creatures. </specific>
  </RulesElement>
  <RulesElement name="Bahamut's Favor +5" type="Magic Item" internal-id="ID_CAMP_MAGIC_ITEM_0002">
    <Flavor> Flavor text here. </Flavor>
    <specific name="Level"> 23 </specific>
    <specific name="Gold"> 325000 </specific>
    <specific name="Magic Item Type"> Weapon </specific>
    <specific name="Tier" />
    <specific name="_Item_Set_ID" />
    <specific name="Armor" />
    <specific name="Weapon"> Axe, Light Blade, Heavy Blade, Spear </specific>
    <specific name="Item Slot" />
    <specific name="Requirement" />
    <specific name="Critical"> +5d6 radiant damage. </specific>
    <specific name="Special" />
    <specific name="Power"> Power (At-Will � Radiant): Free Action. All damage dealt by this weapon is radiant damage. Another free action returns the damage to normal. </specific>
    <specific name="_Rarity" />
    <specific name="Enhancement"> +5 attack rolls and damage rolls </specific>
    <specific name="Granted Powers" />
    <specific name="Rarity"> Uncommon </specific>
    <specific name="Property"> This weapon adds an additional +1 to attack rolls against Infernal creatures. </specific>
  </RulesElement>
  <RulesElement name="Bahamut's Favor +6" type="Magic Item" internal-id="ID_CAMP_MAGIC_ITEM_003">
    <Flavor> Flavor text here. </Flavor>
    <specific name="Level"> 28 </specific>
    <specific name="Gold"> 1625000 </specific>
    <specific name="Magic Item Type"> Weapon </specific>
    <specific name="Tier" />
    <specific name="_Item_Set_ID" />
    <specific name="Armor" />
    <specific name="Weapon"> Axe, Light Blade, Heavy Blade, Spear </specific>
    <specific name="Item Slot" />
    <specific name="Requirement" />
    <specific name="Critical"> +6d6 radiant damage. </specific>
    <specific name="Special" />
    <specific name="Power"> Power (At-Will � Radiant): Free Action. All damage dealt by this weapon is radiant damage. Another free action returns the damage to normal. </specific>
    <specific name="_Rarity" />
    <specific name="Enhancement"> +6 attack rolls and damage rolls </specific>
    <specific name="Granted Powers" />
    <specific name="Rarity"> Uncommon </specific>
    <specific name="Property"> This weapon adds an additional +1 to attack rolls against Infernal creatures. </specific>
  </RulesElement>
</D20Rules>

If you take out the <specific name="Power"> lines, you'll get the second error about the object reference not set to an instance of the object.

# ? Feb 26, 2012 17:11

crime fighting hog: Jun 29, 2006; I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out

It's been so long since I updated my character builder that I have forgotten how. Also sometimes when I print off sheets for my players the power cards come up blank? Does anyone have the same problem?

# ? Feb 26, 2012 19:21

Entilzha4: Feb 17, 2011

tzirean posted:

I was miscounting lines. The builder chokes on the � character, but as that's directly copied from 03-base-items.part, I don't see why it does.

CBLoader doesn't like special characters like that. Try replacing it with something like &# 2022; (without the space inbetween) and retry. I can't remember off-hand what the exact number is. Alternatively, replace that special character with *. That should make it work.

As to why it was in the original base items part file and copying it directly doesn't work, I think it has to do with the editor originally used. If you're using Notepad, copying from one file to another will cause this issue.

Entilzha4 fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Feb 26, 2012

# ? Feb 26, 2012 21:44

Ryuujin: Sep 26, 2007; Dragon God

Nice, haven't had the chance to check everything but I've noticed two problems so far. The Elementalist's Elemental Power doesn't seem to scale past 5th level, where it becomes con+2. And the Primordial Adept theme doesn't seem to let me pick the starting feature. It sends me to the class page to pick a class feature, but no options show up under the Primordial Adept Starting Feature heading.

# ? Feb 26, 2012 22:57

scpredmage: Sep 2, 2011

Ryuujin posted:

Nice, haven't had the chance to check everything but I've noticed two problems so far. The Elementalist's Elemental Power doesn't seem to scale past 5th level, where it becomes con+2.

Yeah, I was looking at the code and noticed the problem before I noticed your post...

In 24-sorcerer.part, in the Elemental Magic class feature, lines 176 and 177 are:

code:

<statadd name="arcane:damage" value="+3" requires="15 Tier" />
<statadd name="arcane:damage" value="+3" requires="25 Tier" />

But they should be:

code:

<statadd name="arcane:damage" value="+3" requires="15 level" />
<statadd name="arcane:damage" value="+3" requires="25 level" />

Don't know how I made that dumbass mistake in the first place...

Entilzha4 posted:

CBLoader doesn't like special characters like that. Try replacing it with something like &# 2022; (without the space inbetween) and retry. I can't remember off-hand what the exact number is. Alternatively, replace that special character with *. That should make it work.

As to why it was in the original base items part file and copying it directly doesn't work, I think it has to do with the editor originally used. If you're using Notepad, copying from one file to another will cause this issue.

The issue is how the special characters are encoded.

This:

code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Tells CBLoader to interrupt it as UTF-8, but by default, most text editors will encode the file as ANSI. So long as the file doesn't have special characters like that, trying to interrupt an ANSI file as UTF-8 won't cause problems, but the moment it DOES encounter one, it doesn't know what the character is supposed to be.

If you open the file in Notepad++, and select "Convert to UTF-8" from the "Encoding" menu and save the file, it should fix the problem.

# ? Feb 27, 2012 00:24

MMAgCh: Aug 15, 2001; I am the poet,
The prophet of the pit
Like a hollow-point bullet
Straight to the head
I never missed...you

A very minor issue with the elementalist from HotEC: when choosing the Earth Elementalist specialty, the added rider for Elemental Bolt lists an incorrect benefit. (The power inflicts the slowed condition on a hit rather than dealing extra damage.)

# ? Feb 27, 2012 04:10

Legit Businessman: Sep 2, 2007

Tivaan:

Awesome work with the themes. If you could be so kind as to follow the style of the Mercenary Theme (for consistencies sake), that would be great. For whatever reason, your style of theme puts the powers out of order, which makes things confusing. The merc style setup also includes the starting feature power with the text of the starting feature (if there are additional goodies, like earthforger), which makes it easier to parse.

# ? Feb 27, 2012 07:03

Tivaan: Jul 13, 2011

Drewjitsu posted:

Tivaan:

Awesome work with the themes. If you could be so kind as to follow the style of the Mercenary Theme (for consistencies sake), that would be great. For whatever reason, your style of theme puts the powers out of order, which makes things confusing. The merc style setup also includes the starting feature power with the text of the starting feature (if there are additional goodies, like earthforger), which makes it easier to parse.

I went ahead and reorganized the themes as suggested hopefully that corrects teh issue
also added the posted fixes

now working feats

# ? Feb 27, 2012 14:51

Undrhil: Dec 24, 2010

The primal aspect (?) theme is supposed to allow you to choose between two powers as the starting feature. I see where there is a place in the Class tab to choose something for the theme, but there is nothing to select. There is also no power selection in the Powers tab, which is where I thought that selection would be made anyway.

# ? Feb 27, 2012 15:07

scpredmage: Sep 2, 2011

MMAgCh posted:

A very minor issue with the elementalist from HotEC: when choosing the Earth Elementalist specialty, the added rider for Elemental Bolt lists an incorrect benefit. (The power inflicts the slowed condition on a hit rather than dealing extra damage.)

The fix: change line 234 of 24-sorcerer.part to:

code:

<modify name="ID_FMP_POWER_16222" type="Power" Field="Earth Elementalist" value="The attack deals acid damage. On a hit, the target is slowed until the end of your next turn." />

# ? Feb 27, 2012 17:39

Balesir: Apr 7, 2011

Tivaan posted:

if u want to update the wizard stuff and post it, it can be added

OK - updated file sent to dudes@cbloader.com.

# ? Feb 28, 2012 00:24

disaster pastor: May 1, 2007

Entilzha4 posted:

CBLoader doesn't like special characters like that. Try replacing it with something like &# 2022; (without the space inbetween) and retry. I can't remember off-hand what the exact number is. Alternatively, replace that special character with *. That should make it work.

Having the * in there instead of the � doesn't look as nice, but it loads! Thanks!

Still can't get rid of the "Inner Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object," though.

# ? Feb 28, 2012 01:21

Echophonic: Sep 16, 2005; ha;lp; Gun Saliva

tzirean posted:

Having the * in there instead of the � doesn't look as nice, but it loads! Thanks!

Still can't get rid of the "Inner Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object," though.

The bullet character is &# 149; (without the space) if you want to use it.

# ? Feb 28, 2012 01:33

disaster pastor: May 1, 2007

Echophonic posted:

The bullet character is &# 149; (without the space) if you want to use it.

Yeah, I looked it up and it didn't work; doesn't break, but just appears as a box in the builder.

# ? Feb 28, 2012 01:45

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 13:10

MMAgCh: Aug 15, 2001; I am the poet,
The prophet of the pit
Like a hollow-point bullet
Straight to the head
I never missed...you

tzirean posted:

Still can't get rid of the "Inner Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object," though.

I'm not getting this error at all, for the record, with or without the Power lines.

# ? Feb 28, 2012 01:47

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