how to handle items and effects?
I've been working on a system for a game that needs a concept that seems like it might be a good fit for active effects.
Though i'm not sure if effects are the right way to go.
Some of these effects can temporarily raise or lower a stat, seems like a fit for effects. While some of these effects may deal damage, give your current attack an AoE, or grant you an ability to use this turn. Some of these things i'm not sure do fit into effects.
Some of these effects may target the player, and others may target the player's target.
The last thing that I'm struggling with is how to model these things.
I don't want to have to create an active effect on every item that has one, as they are sometimes reused across several items.
I was planning on using
Items so I could have a sheet to manage them and pre-built effects ready to go in the compendium. Then I can easily drag on drop the effects onto the items/actor they should belong to.
Though I got stuck trying to apply my new effect (item) to a a weapon (item), due to default drag and drop behaviour not existing for item->item.
My questions are if these things sound like a good fit for active effects?
Should I try and model effects as items to be able to reuse them easily?
How do I handle drag and drop to add an item to an item?5 Replies
I don't think an item can have another item as a child.
For just dragging effects between items, you could look at my "cypher system active effects" module which adds drag and drop.
Although I actually got the drag and drop from another game system.
I'll check it out, thanks.
How do you handle effects that need to make an actual change to an actor? for example, my Bleed effect should cause them to take damage at the start of a round. From what I understand, effects only make temporary changes, usually to buff or debuff a stat temporarily.
Would it be a similar thing to transferring an effect to your target? Add a chat message when the effect should cause damage and have the player apply the damage to the actor?
Would it be a similar thing to transferring an effect to your target? Add a chat message when the effect should cause damage and have the player apply the damage to the actor?
Effects normally do a single change to an Actor. I've never looked into how to do periodic damage in FOUndry.
since I want to be able to create items out of these things to manage them easier, and not all of them may be good fits for effects. I created a drag drop handler for items->items that will copy some data over. (the id of the item and its name and description) that way I can display info about it in the owning item, and look up the original item if I need to create something from it later on.
Thanks for getting me started with the drag and drop @Farling
You can use Hooks.on("updateWorldTime", ... to loop thru all the actors with your damaging effect, applying damage as appropraite. You can also use Combat::nextTurn, looking for your damaging effect. You can add a duration to the effect to implement a Bleed for X seconds/rounds.