Race/Class Edit
 

I know this is really basic question for some of you guys but....
How do I change the names of the Races and Classes in a single design?

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I fear you have to change everything in the races.txt traits.txt etc. -files according to what you want to have, and then import the new files into your single design.

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Ah yes, you should certainly have some backups of the original files. And if you e.g. change "gnome" into "antman", make sure that you make the change in all of the files!

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That's the way to do it. :)

What you can do is leave your original files alone and name your new files anything you want, like 'FD_races.txt', etc. As long as you import the text files one at a time this will work fine.

You might have some issues if you're going to do more than change the name. If so, just ask here. I know that I've come up against it already. :D:D:D

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Well, I was -thinking- about changing the HD of some of the classes....

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And thanks, guys.

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I've had pretty good results with doing that. :) Also, changing the experience points required per level works pretty well, too.

What DC will do is treat the first race as human, the second race as elf, etc. no matter what you change. So the first race can't multi-class, the second race can't be resurrected, etc. DC does read every thing in from the .txt files, but since it's all still hard-coded for computability with older versions of DC it just ignores some of the stuff.
In case you're wondering, the reason why is that CocoaSpud had not intended to make races and classes changeable until after 1.0 was achieved, but I asked about it so often that he changed the code to allow for designer modifications. :D

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I figure changing the XP is pretty easy, but what about the Hit Dice?
Also I've managed to import everything else, but how do I import the traits? There's no button for "traits".

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Hmm, it appears that I mistyped earlier. You can't use one of the .txt files to change the hit dice.

Unfortunately, all of the information in the traits.txt file is hard-coded in DC. CocoaSpud had planned to make it editable, but didn't get to it.

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Eh...okay