Spellcasting

Yes, the current spellcasting tab isn't as useful for me. I use the abilities tab for my creature's spellcasting abilities. There are many topics on here with this conversation and even a blog post about it. Perhaps after we implement 5E rules we'll come back and modify this area too, as yes, it does need attention.

 

Yeah, the spell system was originally designed just to keep track of what spells you had memorized. Then later on we added abilities, so to make it sorta work we could cast a spell then load a saved spell ability.

Currently the spells.txt just contains the Spell Names of each spell available in the world.
Then the classes.txt file contains which classes have access to which spells and at which level.

The Spell's tab can either work from the classes.txt listing or freeform which allows access to all spells at any level.
Only once the spell is cast can the user attach an effect, either pull from a saved effect or enter it manually.

The saved effects is per user, so even if you have a large library of saved effects it won't be accessible to your players. If you wanted to share your saved effects to your players or vice versa, there's a way - just distribute the associated file.

I just skip the spells tab and put them in abilities tab, as there you have the option to bind the effect.

 

I would put ki, grit, etc(pools) into uses per day. Then the real abilities into at-will. That's what I do, and it works for me.

 

For spontaneous casters, I typically put all spells and abilities as at-will:


Then in Per Day, I use a simple counter for each spell level:


Yes, player basically uses two abilities to complete the action, but it's an adaptation of what we have available to use currently.

In the future this may change to make it easier