[DMgenie] Level Adjustment

[duke...@yahoo.com]

Has anyone done anything with the rule about buying back the level
adjustment with XP? ? Trying to find a way to implement it in DM Genie.

[Zym]

Make a feat(special ability) ?- add this code under Use Feat

Y = InputBox("Enter the creatures new Template LA","LA Adjuster - Current LA is " & cr.TemplateLevelAdjust & ".",0)
cr.TemplateLevelAdjust = Y
X = cr.TemplatelevelAdjust
func.addtocombatlog cr.name & "'s new Template Level Adjustment is " & X

This will adjust the Template LA for a creature. You can use it for
Racial LA as well but you need to enter a negative value to lower the
LA.

I haven't found (or bothered to look to hard) a way to lower the
Racial LA (I found the code to reference the Racial LA but it does
nothing but regurgitate the value).

"I can already see your name disintegrating from my lips...."

[P]

In article <AGD.201604...@MX2.NX1B160422174826542>, duke...@yahoo.com wrote:

>Has anyone done anything with the rule about buying back the level
>adjustment with XP? ? Trying to find a way to implement it in DM Genie.

Yes. I wrote a template for it a while ago so I could use the rule on
a LA+2 character I'm playing. GM has "tested" it twice now :D.

I've added an export to the Unearthed Arcana folder in the files
section. It is open game content, so no passwords, etc.

The code applies the rules as per the book (including the XP cost,
which it logs in DM notes), but makes some assumptions about when/how
it is used:

Firstly it only works for the racial level adjustment, not for
adjustments applied by later templates (like Vampire for example).
Should work along side them, but not to reduce their effect. In many
cases the adjustment ends up too high to be reduced outside epic play,
according to the rules (vampire is +8), and our game group doesn't
generally go that high...

The race must have a "Level Adjustment" configured to something other
than "none". The code could be made to take template adjusted
levels into account when checking this, quite easily I think, but I
didn't consider it at the time because my character didn't need it.

Secondly, being a template, you have to remember apply it manually
yourself when required (ideally immediately after levelling the
character). This was deliberate on my part. I chose to use a template
because it fiddled with the character's XP and wanted to be able to
keep the non-adjusted version of the character (just in case). I
didn't want it being applied automatically each time the character
gained a level either (which you could do with a feat if you wanted).
The adjustment logic is quite straightforward so can probably be
transposed into a feat if you want to automate what Zym proposed.

Last caveat: I included the description text from the book as a
reference, which gets added to the character each time the template is
applied. You might want to remove it from the template if you do use
it or from the character each time it is used, since it doesn't really
add any value to the character's description (just bloat).

:Make a feat(special ability)
:...
:I haven't found (or bothered to look to hard) a way to lower the

:Racial LA (I found the code to reference the Racial LA but it does
:nothing but regurgitate the value).

My logic did exactly that. It just reduces the template adjustment
value by 1 each time it is applied.

P