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Old 01-31-2023, 10:34 AM   #7
Armin
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Default Re: GCA, Alternate Form and limitations

(Everything I talk about here is for GCA5.)

Okay. Yes, if you want to have your alternate form listed with all the traits that it includes, then your best option IMO is indeed to do a parent item, with all the child items put under that. That's how folks do custom race templates and such, and that's what that is.

But that only lists/combines all the traits into a single listing. It won't do the point costs for the Alternate Form advantage. You'll still need to cost that out yourself, based on the total cost of the "Alternate Form (Demon)" parent item and the base cost.

What the Transform Manager lets you do is easily group any traits into This Form or That Form. It will turn off (no bonuses from them, doesn't count for prereqs) all traits in any form that isn't currently the active form. So if you pick This Form, all traits in That Form are disabled.

What the Transform Manager will not do is integrate with Alternate Form or Morph or anything like that, you'll still have to set those up yourself. Maybe some day I can get things better integrated, but that's a lot of work.

With parent items in GCA, you can also have them apply their modifiers to all child items. So, if the base cost of the parent is 0, then basically all the modifiers on the parent can be set as general modifiers which apply to all children. (That may help you here, but I'm not great on the rules applications involved.) Note that the modifiers will still apply to the base cost of the parent, so if you made the parent form something with a base cost, that would also be adjusted by the modifiers chosen, so be careful with this option.

Play around with GCA 5 for a bit, try things out, then let's see what we can accomplish. But please bear in mind that I'm not actually great on how all the rules are supposed to work (my GUPRS playing has always been with pretty simple characters and pretty simple traits), and I do *not* have a particularly deep knowledge of the rules. I tend to learn what I need to know to make things work, and then often forget the specifics.

And: You're welcome! I'm really glad you like GCA!
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