League of Extraordinary FoundryVTT Developers•5y ago

What's the visual effect?

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:36 PM

Maybe just clicking on whatever it is toggles it

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:41 PM

Didn't we get a drop down library?

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:41 PM

(and yes I know there's a foundry built in one. It interacts terribly with clipping, grids, overflow, etc)

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:44 PM

lol

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:45 PM

It gives us flexibility for other attack modifications

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:45 PM

https://tenor.com/view/its-free-real-sate-gif-7215175

Tenor

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:45 PM

Like death's-head/spotter attack rerolls

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:46 PM

Which take best iirc

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:46 PM

Empath's auto-10

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:47 PM

Its just a garbage bin for weird stuff that rarely applies, y'know?

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:49 PM

Lol

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:50 PM

I think we should get some practice using it anyways

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:50 PM

lol

Grygon•7/14/21, 4:54 PM

Are any of those in the data model somewhere so it could be done programmatically or are we hardcoding in specific handling? Because if we're hardcoding it's probably be good to build it around an extendible hooking system so custom lcps could in theory use it

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:55 PM

I agree wholeheartedly with the hooks

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:55 PM

Statuses and conditions aren't yet properly linked into machine mind

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:55 PM

But they can/should be editable in a roughly equivalent way to any other item

Grygon•7/14/21, 4:55 PM

Something where you pass through a name & function to be run and return a roll if selected

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:55 PM

(eventually)

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:56 PM

Well imo there should be a few hooks

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:57 PM

One: on initiate an attack, we pre-populate all of these fields based on statuses and weapon tags, etc. Having a hook that can modify this config in flight would be good

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:57 PM

We should also have a hook that fires for each attack as it resolves on targets

Grygon•7/14/21, 4:58 PM

Yeah may not need to be an explicit hook for the first one tbh, could just be an object containing name/func/condition to trigger that's set at the system level

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:58 PM

Including the roll info/total, who by, what with, upon whom

GGrygon Yeah may not need to be an explicit hook for the first one tbh, could just be an...

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:58 PM

I mean that's basically what hooks are

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:58 PM

Making a hook isn't like, a really formal process

Grygon•7/14/21, 4:58 PM

One issue with hooks is they're difficult for non-modules/systems to work with though

Grygon•7/14/21, 4:59 PM

I'm imagining more of a system setting thing for this use case

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:59 PM

I don't think we should try to handle this ourselves tbh

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:59 PM

I think dnd system kinda does it right

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 4:59 PM

There's a robust module ecosystem for handling different levels of people's preferred automation

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 5:00 PM

Not making it hook based gates functionality entirely to us, basically

Grygon•7/14/21, 5:00 PM

Fair, a hook can't hurt at least

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 5:00 PM

not to mention there's modules that let users set hooks to run macros

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 5:02 PM

I fully expect the community to want to go ham on this stuff

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 5:03 PM

Automagically apply status effects, bonus damage workflows, damage application, etc

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 5:06 PM

And my personal dream: automating brutal 3. I hate that talent! So much!

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 5:18 PM

Yeah sorry lol

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 5:18 PM

That's long term dreams

WHITESPINEOP•7/14/21, 7:14 PM

I think targets gives actors doesn't it?