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Tutorial: Adding Custom Classes

Discussion in 'User Created Content' started by Dan, Feb 2, 2010.

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  1. Dan

    Dan Member

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    If you want to add new classes to d20pro, then you will need to edit the classes.txt file in your "d20pro\dm\res\manually specified" folder. The information is not too hard to edit, especially for non-caster classes. Take the barbarian in the txt file:

    Code:
    ## CLASS: BARBARIAN
CreatureClass=Barbarian
AttackRate=1
GoodSaves=Fort
    If I wanted to import a Kensai (another non-caster) then I just type this:
    Code:
    ## CLASS: KENSAI
CreatureClass=Kensai
AttackRate=1
GoodSaves=Fort
    Non-casting prestige classes work just like regular classes.

    Spellcasting classes pose a bit more of a challenge, particularly prestige spellcasters. Let's start with a spellcasting class like the hexblade. The Complete Warrior says that the Hexblade casts spells as a sorcerer, using CHA as his primary stat. So let's look at the sorcerer from the classes.txt file:

    Code:
    ## CLASS: SORCERER
CreatureClass=Sorcerer
AttackRate=.5
GoodSaves=Will
SpellCaster=com.mindgene.d20.plugin.dnd.creature.SpellCasterTemplate_Sorceror|CHA
#SPELLS AVAILABLE
Spells0=Resistance|Acid Splash|Detect Poison|Detect Magic|Read Magic|Daze|Dancing Lights|Flare|Light|Ray of Frost|Ghost Sound|Bleed|Disrupt Undead|Touch of Fatigue|Mage Hand|Mending|Message|Open/Close|Arcane Mark|Prestidigitation
Spells1=Alarm.....
...
#SPELLS PER DAY
PerDay1=5|3
PerDay2=6|4
PerDay3=6|5
...
#SPELLS KNOWN
Known1=4|2
Known2=5|1
Known3=5|3
...
    Notice that we have the same basic top stuff (including attack rate and saves) then have a line that says:
    SpellCaster=com.mindgene.d20.plugin.dnd.creature.SpellCasterTemplate_Sorceror|CHA
    Just copy/paste that into your Hexblade. If your class was a spontaneous divine caster (like Spirit Shaman) then you could just change the CHA to WIS or whatever.

    Next come the spell lists. These are basically in the form of:
    Code:
    #SPELLS AVAILABLE
Spells0=__________|_________|____________|
    Where spells are separated by Pipe characters (shift+\)

    Then you fill out the spells per day. These are done in a similar fashion, but have the number of spell slots separated by pipes.
    Finally you list the spells known. Follow the same formatting and you will be fine.

    So Hexblade will look kind of like:
    Code:
    ## CLASS: HEXBLADE
CreatureClass=Hexblade
AttackRate=1
GoodSaves=Will
SpellCaster=com.mindgene.d20.plugin.dnd.creature.SpellCasterTemplate_Sorceror|CHA
#SPELLS AVAILABLE
Spells0=Resistance|Acid Splash|Detect Poison|Detect Magic|Read Magic|Daze|Dancing Lights|Flare|Light|Ray of Frost|Ghost Sound|Bleed|Disrupt Undead|Touch of Fatigue|Mage Hand|Mending|Message|Open/Close|Arcane Mark|Prestidigitation
Spells1=Alarm...
...
#SPELLS PER DAY
PerDay1=-
PerDay2=-
PerDay3=-
PerDay4=0
PerDay5=0
PerDay6=1
PerDay7=1
PerDay8=1|0
...
#SPELLS KNOWN
Known1=0
Known2=0
Known3=0
Known4=2
Known5=2
Known6=3
Known7=3
Known8=4|2
...
    Notice the dash (-) on the levels 1-3. These ensure that d20pro doesn't apply ability score modifiers to spells per day for those levels.

    If anyone wants to start on a project, I can help, but we can't release d20pro with that data coming from Mindgene.
     
    #1 Dan, Feb 2, 2010
  2. Keyafay

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    Here is a copy of a "Favored Soul" from the "Complete Divine". A Cleric that casts spells like a sorcerer.

    Code:
    ## CLASS: FAVORED SOUL
CreatureClass=Favored Soul
AttackRate=.75
GoodSaves=Fort|Will|Ref
SpellCaster=com.mindgene.d20.plugin.dnd.creature.SpellCasterTemplate_Sorceror|CHA
#SPELLS AVAILABLE
Spells0=Create Water|Cure Minor Wounds|Detect Magic|Detect Poison|Guidance|Inflict Minor Wounds|Light|Mending|Purify Food and Drink|Read Magic|Resistance|Virtue
Spells1=Bane|Bless|Bless Water|Cause Fear|Command|Comprehend Languages|Cure Light Wounds|Curse Water|Deathwatch|Detect Chaos|Detect Evil|Detect Good|Detect Law|Detect Undead|Divine Favor|Doom|Endure Elements|Entropic Shield|Hide from Undead|Inflict Light Wounds|Magic Stone|Magic Weapon|Obscuring Mist|Protection from Chaos|Protection from Evil|Protection from Good|Protection from Law|Remove Fear|Sanctuary|Shield of Faith|Summon Monster I
Spells2=Aid|Align Weapon|Augury|Bear's Endurance|Bull's Strength|Calm Emotions|Consecrate|Cure Moderate Wounds|Darkness|Death Knell|Delay Poison|Desecrate|Eagle's Splendor|Enthrall|Find Traps|Gentle Repose|Hold Person|Inflict Moderate Wounds|Make Whole|Owl's Wisdom|Remove Paralysis|Resist Energy|Restoration, Lesser|Shatter|Shield Other|Silence|Sound Burst|Spiritual Weapon|Status|Summon Monster II|Undetectable Alignment|Zone of Truth
Spells3=Animate Dead|Bestow Curse|Blindness/Deafness|Contagion|Continual Flame|Create Food and Water|Cure Serious Wounds|Daylight|Deeper Darkness|Dispel Magic|Glyph of Warding|Helping Hand|Inflict Serious Wounds|Invisibility Purge|Locate Object|Magic Circle against Chaos|Magic Circle against Evil|Magic Circle against Good|Magic Circle against Law|Magic Vestment|Meld into Stone|Obscure Object|Prayer|Protection from Energy|Remove Blindness/Deafness|Remove Curse|Remove Disease|Searing Light|Speak with Dead|Stone Shape|Summon Monster III|Water Breathing|Water Walk|Wind Wall
Spells4=Air Walk|Control Water|Cure Critical Wounds|Death Ward|Dimensional Anchor|Discern Lies|Dismissal|Divination|Divine Power|Freedom of Movement|Giant Vermin|Imbue with Spell Ability|Inflict Critical Wounds|Magic Weapon, Greater|Neutralize Poison|Planar Ally, Lesser|Poison|Repel Vermin|Restoration|Sending|Spell Immunity|Summon Monster IV|Tongues
Spells5=Atonement|Break Enchantment|Command, Greater|Commune|Cure Light Wounds, Mass|Dispel Chaos|Dispel Evil|Dispel Good|Dispel Law|Disrupting Weapon|Flame Strike|Hallow|Inflict Light Wounds, Mass|Insect Plague|Mark of Justice|Plane Shift|Raise Dead|Righteous Might|Scrying|Slay Living|Spell Resistance|Summon Monster V|Symbol of Pain|Symbol of Sleep|True Seeing|Unhallow|Wall of Stone
Spells6=Animate Objects|Antilife Shell|Banishment|Bear's Endurance, Mass|Blade Barrier|Bull's Strength, Mass|Create Undead|Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass|Dispel Magic, Greater|Eagle's Splendor, Mass|Find the Path|Forbiddance|Geas/Quest|Glyph of Warding, Greater|Harm|Heal|Heroes' Feast|Inflict Moderate Wounds, Mass|Owl's Wisdom, Mass|Planar Ally|Summon Monster VI|Symbol of Fear|Symbol of Persuasion|Undeath to Death|Wind Walk|Word of Recall
Spells7=Blasphemy|Control Weather|Cure Serious Wounds, Mass|Destruction|Dictum|Ethereal Jaunt|Holy Word|Inflict Serious Wounds, Mass|Refuge|Regenerate|Repulsion|Restoration, Greater|Resurrection|Scrying, Greater|Summon Monster VII|Symbol of Stunning|Symbol of Weakness|Word of Chaos
Spells8=Antimagic Field|Cloak of Chaos|Create Greater Undead|Cure Critical Wounds, Mass|Dimensional Lock|Discern Location|Earthquake|Fire Storm|Holy Aura|Planar Ally, Greater|Inflict Critical Wounds, Mass|Shield of Law|Spell Immunity, Greater|Summon Monster VIII|Symbol of Death|Symbol of Insanity|Unholy Aura
Spells9=Astral Projection|Energy Drain|Etherealness|Gate|Heal, Mass|Implosion|Miracle|Soul Bind|Storm of Vengeance|Summon Monster IX|True Resurrection
#SPELLS PER DAY
PerDay1=5|3
PerDay2=6|4
PerDay3=6|5
PerDay4=6|6|3
PerDay5=6|6|4
PerDay6=6|6|5|3
PerDay7=6|6|6|4
PerDay8=6|6|6|5|3
PerDay9=6|6|6|6|4
PerDay10=6|6|6|5|3
PerDay11=6|6|6|6|4
PerDay12=6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay13=6|6|6|6|6|4
PerDay14=6|6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay15=6|6|6|6|6|6|4
PerDay16=6|6|6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay17=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|4
PerDay18=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay19=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|4
PerDay20=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6
#SPELLS KNOWN
Known1=4|3
Known2=5|3
Known3=5|4
Known4=6|4|3
Known5=6|5|3
Known6=7|5|4|3
Known7=7|6|4|3
Known8=8|6|5|4|3
Known9=8|6|5|4|3
Known10=9|6|6|5|4|3
Known11=9|6|6|5|4|3
Known12=9|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known13=9|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known14=9|6|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known15=9|6|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known16=9|6|6|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known17=9|6|6|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known18=9|6|6|6|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known19=9|6|6|6|6|6|6|5|4|3
Known20=9|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|5|4
    Also The "Spirit Shaman" from the same book. Now this one is a Sorcerer that casts Druid spells.

    Code:
    ## CLASS: SPIRIT SHAMAN
CreatureClass=Spirit Shaman
AttackRate=.75
GoodSaves=Fort|Will
SpellCaster=com.mindgene.d20.plugin.dnd.creature.SpellCasterTemplate_Sorceror|WIS
#SPELLS AVAILABLE
Spells0=Create Water|Cure Minor Wounds|Detect Magic|Detect Poison|Flare|Guidance|Know Direction|Light|Mending|Purify Food and Drink|Read Magic|Resistance|Virtue
Spells1=Calm Animals|Charm Animal|Cure Light Wounds|Detect Animals or Plants|Detect Snares and Pits|Entangle|Faerie Fire|Goodberry|Hide from Animals|Jump|Longstrider|Magic Fang|Magic Stone|Obscuring Mist|Pass without Trace|Produce Flame|Shillelagh|Speak with Animals|Summon Nature's Ally I
Spells2=Animal Messenger|Animal Trance|Barkskin|Bear's Endurance|Bull's Strength|Cat's Grace|Chill Metal|Delay Poison|Fire Trap|Flame Blade|Flaming Sphere|Fog Cloud|Gust of Wind|Heat Metal|Hold Animal|Owl's Wisdom|Reduce Animal|Resist Energy|Restoration, Lesser|Soften Earth and Stone|Spider Climb|Summon Nature's Ally II|Summon Swarm|Tree Shape|Warp Wood|Wood Shape
Spells3=Call Lightning|Contagion|Cure Moderate Wounds|Daylight|Diminish Plants|Dominate Animal|Magic Fang, Greater|Meld into Stone|Neutralize Poison|Plant Growth|Poison|Protection from Energy|Quench|Remove Disease|Sleet Storm|Snare|Speak with Plants|Spike Growth|Stone Shape|Summon Nature's Ally III|Water Breathing|Wind Wall
Spells4=Air Walk|Antiplant Shell|Blight|Command Plants|Control Water|Cure Serious Wounds|Dispel Magic|Flame Strike|Freedom of Movement|Giant Vermin|Ice Storm|Reincarnate|Repel Vermin|Rusting Grasp|Scrying|Spike Stones|Summon Nature's Ally IV
Spells5=Animal Growth|Atonement|Awaken|Baleful Polymorph|Call Lightning Storm|Commune with Nature|Control Winds|Cure Critical Wounds|Death Ward|Hallow|Insect Plague|Stoneskin|Summon Nature's Ally V|Transmute Mud to Rock|Transmute Rock to Mud|Tree Stride|Unhallow|Wall of Fire|Wall of Thorns
Spells6=Antilife Shell|Bear's Endurance, Mass|Cat's Grace, Mass|Cure Light Wounds, Mass|Dispel Magic, Greater|Find the Path|Fire Seeds|Ironwood|Liveoak|Move Earth|Owl's Wisdom, Mass|Repel Wood|Spellstaff|Stone Tell|Summon Nature's Ally VI|Transport via Plants|Wall of Stone
Spells7=Animate Plants|Changestaff|Control Weather|Creeping Doom|Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass|Fire Storm|Heal|Scrying, Greater|Summon Nature's Ally VII|Sunbeam|Transmute Metal to Wood|True Seeing|Wind Walk
Spells8=Animal Shapes|Control Plants|Cure Serious Wounds, Mass|Earthquake|Finger of Death|Repel Metal or Stone|Reverse Gravity|Summon Nature's Ally VIII|Sunburst|Whirlwind|Word of Recall
Spells9=Antipathy|Cure Critical Wounds, Mass|Elemental Swarm|Foresight|Regenerate|Shambler|Shapechange|Storm of Vengeance|Summon Nature's Ally IX|Sympathy
#SPELLS PER DAY
PerDay1=3|2
PerDay2=4|3
PerDay3=5|4|2
PerDay4=6|5|3
PerDay5=6|6|4|2
PerDay6=6|6|5|3
PerDay7=6|6|6|4|2
PerDay8=6|6|6|5|3
PerDay9=6|6|6|6|4|2
PerDay10=6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay11=6|6|6|6|6|4|2
PerDay12=6|6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay13=6|6|6|6|6|6|4|2
PerDay14=6|6|6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay15=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|4|2
PerDay16=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay17=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|4|2
PerDay18=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|5|3
PerDay19=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|4
PerDay20=6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|6|5
#SPELLS KNOWN
Known1=3|1
Known2=3|2
Known3=3|2|1
Known4=3|3|1
Known5=3|3|1|1
Known6=3|3|2|1
Known7=3|3|2|1|1
Known8=3|3|2|2|1
Known9=3|3|3|2|1|1
Known10=3|3|3|2|2|1
Known11=3|3|3|3|2|1|1
Known12=3|3|3|3|2|2|1
Known13=3|3|3|3|3|2|1|1
Known14=3|3|3|3|3|2|2|1
Known15=3|3|3|3|3|3|2|1|1
Known16=3|3|3|3|3|3|2|2|1
Known17=3|3|3|3|3|3|3|2|1|1
Known18=3|3|3|3|3|3|3|2|2|1
Known19=3|3|3|3|3|3|3|3|2|2
Known20=3|3|3|3|3|3|3|3|3|2
     
    #2 Keyafay, Feb 3, 2010
  3. templar12

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    Thanks! I already needed to use the Favored Soul Class. This will do nicely, keyafey!
     
    #3 templar12, Feb 16, 2010
  4. Dan

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    A reminder: spells need to Be Capitalized, except for common words like: of, the, and, against, from
     
    #4 Dan, Mar 18, 2010
  5. markmad

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    It looks really cool how you can adjust these classes through a text files. In the far future I might want to do this, Is there a way to keep the changes separate from the other classes, via a content directory change. So I can have a folder with regular classes and a folder with my new class system.
     
    #5 markmad, Jun 16, 2010
  6. Thurgian

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    You can install multiple copies of d20, or you could create a batch file to copy the appropriate .txt files to the current directory before starting the game.
     
    #6 Thurgian, Jun 16, 2010
  7. ogexam

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    you can create different full installs of d20Pro and set them up for each different game system you play.

    There are plans in the near future to add the ability to choose which campaign to start requiring only one install.
     
    #7 ogexam, Jun 17, 2010
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    Yay!!!
     
    #8 vardeman, Jun 17, 2010
  9. Dan

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    Yeah, our next major update will focus more on making d20pro more friendly to custom rules, feats, spells, and systems. Our goal is to support more systems and make d20pro even more "free-form" than it currently is.
     
    #9 Dan, Jun 17, 2010
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    Is there currently any method of causing a Prestige Class to advance spellcasting levels in a Base class, such as Loremaster adding caster levels and spells-per-day to Wizards or Sorcerers?

    If not, how is this best handled?
     
    #10 Doskious, Sep 12, 2010
  11. Dan

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    The basic method is to add the levels to the character, then add original class levels to the character as well. Use his HD to track his official level, and modify his BAB to be the correct value.

    For example: Lvl 5 mage / 5 cleric gains a level in Mystic Theurge
    • I add a level in Mystic Theurge
    • I add 1 level each into his Wizard and Cleric levels.
    • I keep his Hit Dice at 6
    • If his BAB is off, I click the override box next to it and type in the real value.
     
    #11 Dan, Sep 12, 2010
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    Dan, when you say "free-form" are you referencing the same kind of "free-form" that Battlegrounds has? I've been thinking about dipping into the d20Pro license, but I have a Fantasy Grounds II license currently, it's not super user-friendly when it comes to custom rule-sets and when I saw the screens it's been making me ponder. PLUS I have a Hero Lab license and all the Pathfinder addons... But Fantasy Craft has really grabbed my attention...
     
    #12 Hoodsey, Sep 16, 2010
  13. Dan

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    We do NOT favor lots of coding on the back end. The classes system is currently the most complex and arcane of anything you customize in d20pro, and most everything else is done in the program itself. Most customizing is done via editing 3 plain text files. Check out our wiki at: http://help.mindgene.com and try downloading a free 30 day trial. If you want, I can give you a brief tutorial over it. Just let me know what you wish to explore.
     
    #13 Dan, Dec 13, 2010
  14. templar12

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    I am trying to add Warmage to my classes. Attached is a link to a copy of the classes.txt http://www.mediafire.com/?65sflecybqpqc3a
    The 2.3 D20Pro version is not recognizing it as a class to select.
    Any ideas why? I appreciate your help!
     
    #14 templar12, Feb 9, 2011
  15. edwardcd

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    Corrections..
    updated class.txt to include proper spacing between entries
    Assassin - added "|" between spellcaster template and primary ability.
    misc classes - saves had ", " to separate multiple "good saves"... replaced with "|".

    With the previous corrections made Warmage is an option for a class.
     

    Attached Files:

    #15 edwardcd, Feb 9, 2011
  16. templar12

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    Corrections..
    updated class.txt to include proper spacing between entries
    Assassin - added "|" between spellcaster template and primary ability.
    misc classes - saves had ", " to separate multiple "good saves"... replaced with "|".

    With the previous corrections made Warmage is an option for a class.[/quote]

    Thanks for all your hard work. I replaced the classes.txt with your changes, refreshed resources, and still it did not work....
    Hmm...
     
    #16 templar12, Feb 9, 2011
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    Must close/quit d20Pro, then reopen d20Pro.
    "Refresh Resources" does not update any user specified files inside the MannuallySpecified folder.
     
    #17 edwardcd, Feb 9, 2011
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    Yes, I have done that close/restart. Didn't clear the problem.
    ****WAIT****Part2- I went back into folders, and discovered that since everything is under Legacy Campaign, I went in there an lo and behold, I found another RES folder, that my legacy campaign is using. (I go way back to the 1.15umptysomething version)
    So, my folder list goes Prgram Files>Mindgene>d20Pro>judge>campaigns>Legacy Campaign>res> and my old original classes.txt is in there under Manually Specified.So, any changes I want to items,classes,etc, it looks like I have to go that route, NOT the Prgram Files>Mindgene>d20Pro>dm>res I had been fiddling with. Now I wonder....Is this normal? Or throught the years with updates etc, I have created this hydra (sic).Or is this what developers have in mind to modify 3.5;Pathfinder...and dare I say it... 4.ohs*t.
     
    #18 templar12, Feb 10, 2011
  19. edwardcd

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    Yes, this was a change as of version 2.2 to support multiple rulesets within the same d20pro installation. (release notes)
     
    #19 edwardcd, Feb 10, 2011
  20. Dan

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    Templar,

    My suggestion is perform a fresh install of d20pro into another directory, then copy over your campaign folders. It will save you some problems in the future and clean up your install folder. After a while, you can delete your original.
     
    #20 Dan, Feb 13, 2011
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