Talk:3.5e Character Options

UA Bloodlines

Would this be the correct section for UA-style Bloodlines? While technically Racial, they seem to function more like a scaling Trait. --Be well 23:06, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

Looks like a good place as any, just be sure to create a new category for it ;-) --Ghostwheel 23:10, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure of the proper way, but tried to do so. Please let me know if I should alter or remove anything I did. --Be well 00:23, September 24, 2009 (UTC)

Semantic Navigation

The subcategories for Character Option have been created, but I can't think of any additional properties to add to these to make them searchable. Anyone have any thoughts on how they'd like to be able to search any of this material? - TarkisFlux 16:05, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

Property:Type (which should have zero restrictions on it) is a string and useful for searching feats. Property:Prerequisite as well, which also should have no restrictions, is also a string and useful for searching. Hopefully the string search on general strings isn't dumb. Surgo 18:36, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

If it behaves anything like the search tied into the Property:Prerequisite pages, it's exact matches only and very dumb. We'll have to get a filter up and working to test properly though. Later today probably. - TarkisFlux 18:53, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

If I'm already hacking semantic drilldown to not be buggy, I guess it's not much more of a stretch to add in some better searching. Surgo 18:54, September 25, 2009 (UTC)

In case it wasn't clear on your talk page, you don't need to hack searching as well. The string filter can be set to accept any text at all. It still tries to help you out with a drop down and auto-selecting the closest match if you're typing something that corresponds to the start of an actual entry, but you can delete out the junk and it works fine. It's live on this nav page (that I can't wiki link to because it doesn't format right) if you want to play with it. - TarkisFlux 01:31, September 26, 2009 (UTC)

Page Formatting

Trying to determine which works better, the list with explanation like is up there now, or a table with explanation like the 3.5e homebrew page. Here's an example of the latter:

Alternate Class Features		Racial Substitution Levels		Bloodlines
Not every ranger casts spells, and not every paladin is LG.		Sometimes elven wizards cast differently than the rest of us.		Occasionally your lineage matters as much as your career.
Feats		Flaws		Traits
Not every adventurer brings the same options to the fight.		Some adventurers have serious problems.		It's the minor things that help set you apart.
		Domains
		The powers that a god can bestow upon his chosen are many.

I'd like to do something more than the basic bullet list we had here before, preferably something that can be standardized and ported to all of the other nav pages. Thoughts appreciated. - TarkisFlux 21:55, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

I currently like its current style better than that format above. The format above is good only when you have a lot of options to choose from. This is only 8, so not really an issue. --Havvy 09:54, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Cleric Domains

Should cleric domains be moved to 3.5e Class Ability Components? --Havvy 09:54, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

It's already linked in the 3.5e Spells page actually. I'm pretty happy with it where is, though I guess we could move it up a level in the listnig over there and just have it listed in both places. - Tarkisflux 17:21, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Skill Tricks

For some reason I thought we had them.

Shall we make a place for skill tricks? -- Eiji-kun 16:16, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Skills

I see we have a "skills" category. I'd add to it, but we've neither a format nor do I have an idea how to put it there. With that said, Knowledge Xeno (currently in the Glossary) is already made, so it makes sense to bring it here. Wat do? -- Eiji-kun 07:25, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

The man, Tarkis, is you. Thanks. -- Eiji-kun 15:34, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Unqantifiable

Where did the category go? -- Eiji-kun (talk) 21:01, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Uquatable blance add. --Ganteka Future (talk) 21:09, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Replacement Feats

Okay, so, I was thinking last night as I was drifting off into Slumberland that, wouldn't it be lovely if there was a way to easily locate feats that serve as "this feat counts as X for the purposes of prerequisites" or some such. I can't remember if there's a term for that, but man, if we had a little template with a property, you could totally make a page of feats that are alternate feats, like "Oh sir, I require Combat Expertise for this character build but am able to use homebrew and would thus prefer an alternate option if one is available to me. How shall I find such a feat. Harken!", except less profoundly stupid sounding. Does that make sense? Is that a thing we could do? Would it be worth doing? --Ganteka Future (talk) 18:02, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

That would be pretty great actually. It would work best as a new semantic property, probably standardized through the feat template. Which I can do pretty quickly, but then someone would have to parse through existing content to manually update things. - Tarkisflux ^Talk 19:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

And there we go. |replaces=<comma separated feat list> is now a thing in the 3.5e Feat template. Example at Dash (3.5e Feat). Need to decide on replaces text and property name before we do any more though... - Tarkisflux ^Talk 19:49, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Should the "Replaces" line go last in the order of things after "Special"?... or perhaps not even be a line and just be hidden data for the article that we could use for auto-generated lists. I mean, authors can put stuff like "For the purposes of meeting prerequisites, this feat counts as Whatever (3.5e Feat)" under the "Special" line heading. If anyone else has some input, that would be lovely because I'd prefer to make it as open for authors as possible for their own wording if necessary. As we've seen, making homebrew is all about working around those edge-cases. --Ganteka Future (talk) 00:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Feat Type Template?

Having quite an amount of trouble finding where to make a new feat type (I've made one before, I just don't remember what I used, but I'll work it out), so I find myself wondering why there isn't a template for the creation of feat types available either here or on the Glossary articles page. Zhenra-Khal (talk) 22:51, 21 May 2017 (MDT)