Zeispharn
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When creating an hold, is it a way to change Tendry's starting stats and/or creatures stats?

Xindaris
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Yes, just put down a character to set the players stats in variables. Use Imperative hide stat changes first (unless you want the player to see the stat changes from default), then the variables like _HP, _ATK, _DEF and so on refer to the player's stats.

You can also use characters to make custom monsters (make it visible and set variables like _Myatk , _mydef etc.), or you can set certain variables to modify all monsters' attack, defense, etc. if you want.

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Professor Tio
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The F4 key while in the room editor can allow you to set the game's standard variables - HP, keys, and all, including "multipliers" for specific things (100 is the base 1x value). Making a creature fine-tuned to have specific stats is most likely easier to implement using a scripted NPC rather than messing with multiplier values.

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kieranmillar
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Professor Tio wrote:
The F4 key while in the room editor can allow you to set the game's standard variables - HP, keys, and all, including "multipliers" for specific things (100 is the base 1x value). Making a creature fine-tuned to have specific stats is most likely easier to implement using a scripted NPC rather than messing with multiplier values.

Just a note, changing values via F4 applies only while testing in the editor.

If you want your starting to stats to be modified in a proper playthrough, you need to use the Character monster to set the variables as Xindaris mentioned.

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Zeispharn
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Thx for these answers, but how can I explain to the game that this character with custom stats is my character?

When I play the game continue to give me a Tendry with standard stats at the "Level Entrance" point.

kieranmillar
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If you've never used DROD's scripting system before, this is probably quite confusing.

The last monster in the monster list in the editor is one called Character, this is basically a thing that runs scripts.

Place one anywhere in the room and the script editor will appear. Press "Add Command". Then go to "Set Var", and assign a value to the _HP variable, or _Atk, or _Def, etc. The ones without "My" in the name refer to the player's stats and inventory, and can be modified in this way at any time. Any Character can just change the stats of the player character at any time.

Any time the player's stats change, text appears over the character's head. If you want to set starting stats, you probably don't want this to appear, so there's another script command called "Imperative" that lets you turn on and off these displayed stat changes. So add the "Hide stat changes" command before you modify players stats, then add the "Show stat changes" command at the end to resume standard behaviour (so you'll still see the numbers when you pick up health potions, etc.)

If this still didn't make a lot of sense, here's some pictures of the above steps:

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Zeispharn
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@kieranmillar

Thx a lot, very clean explanation.

Last question for now, how do I change the amount given by the potion? (i.e. I want a potion that add 10hp)

kieranmillar
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There are two ways to do that. One of which is very complicated.

The easy way: there is a variable that acts as a multiplier for all of the standard blue health potions. You change it just like you do the player's stats, by using a script's Set Var command. The variable is called _ItemHPMult. A value of 100 means 100%, and means potions will work as expected. If you change this to 67, then all blue potions will reduce the health they give by 1/3, until some other character sets it back to 100. The good news is that this means small potions will now give 10 health when the level multiplier is 1. The bad news, is that the medium and large potions will also reduce the amount of health they give by 1/3 too. If this is what you want, great! If it's not, and you instead want a custom potion, then things get a lot more complicated.

My recommendation is to press F1 in the editor to read the help files. The editor and scripting and custom characters are all documented very well. Before I make a big post explaining how to make a custom character, please read the help files and see how far you can get on your own. Playing around with DROD Script is fun, and you'll learn best that way, including accidentally learning some useful basics about programming too.

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