Creature Refinement (Savage)

Context: HL Kit … Authoring Examples … Savage Worlds Walk-Through 

Overview

We've now got the ability to define and customize creatures in place. However, there are still a fair number of tasks we need to complete before creatures are fully handled. The sections below address these remaining issues.

Managing Abilities

• race-specific abilities
• creature-specific abilities
  • shared abilities with races
  • separate file to hold all of the general/shared abilities
• default abilities that can be added to any creature
  • identifying the abilities distinctly from other abilities via tag

Defining Complete Creatures

• walk-through of three different creatures

New Abilities Tab

• allow user to specify facets of dynamic abilities that are needed (value/text)
• User.NeedText and User.NeedValue tags

Cleanup the Interface

• Resource Revisions
• Basics Tab
• Skills Tabs

Validation Rules

• new validation rule for creature type
• need ContainerReq tests for race and creature validation things

Output Revisions

• show "creature type" instead of Race within character sheet
• same for statblock output

Custom Creatures

• define a "custom" creature that allows the author to create whatever he wants
• define a "custom" ability that allows the author to annotate the behaviors without actually creating a new ability in the Editor
  • just like custom containers