Changing tags of Equipment within modifications

[gudmo]

Hi everyone

I was wondering if anyone has a solution for this problem I've run into.

I'm trying to get the armor modification I'm adding to show it's description in the equipment list when printing on the phoenix sheet.

This is the line I have right now which is based on the idea that I add the text to the description tag on the armor I'm adding this to.

<Armor - Metal>
Quality: Reinforced, +35 CF, gives(=*1.2 to owner::baseweight), shortname(Reinforced Armor),
#MergeTags in owner::description with description(" Reinforced armor is resistant to armor penetrating methods. Reduce any armor divisor by 1 level.")

But it doesn't work as I hoped, I've tried a bunch of methods I've thought of but none of them have worked.

Does anyone have a solution to print the text along with the armor on the phoenix character sheet? It only prints the shortname and a couple of other tags that cannot be used for text. Using the shortname causes all kinds of other problems.

best regards
Gudmo

[ericbsmith]

Unless there's something I'm not remembering, you can't. For a modifier to affect the owning trait the tags it's looking to modify need to be made targetable in some way, and the description() tag just isn't.

[gudmo]

Had to be a reason why it wasn't working. :)

Thanks Eric

[Armin]

Also, #MergeTags is a data file command, and wouldn't work in that context.

There is a mergetags() tag for traits, that allows one trait to modify another trait, but it doesn't work as part of a modifier. (I'll add it to the request list for modifiers as a possible future addition.)