PCGEN CUSTOM SOURCES HOW TO

Your homebrew trait should now be available to choose from the list of traits. On the right side, you should now see 'Pathfinder RPG for Players', as well as 'My Pathfinder Campaign'. In the dropdown list at the top, select Pathfinder RPG as your Game. Go To Sources -> Select Sources ( Ctrl L), and go to the Advanced tab.

Once you have your ability to your liking, save the file and open up PCGen.

Homebrew Trait KEY:Trait ~ Homebrew Trait CATEGORY:Special Ability TYPE: PREMULT:1, DESC:You have studied the workings of PCGen and managed to claw your way into creating a homebrew trait|PRERULE:1,DisplayFullAbility NATURALATTACKS:Claw.Piercing,*2,1d4 Under #insert your data here, add the following line Using a good text editor (Notepad++ or similar), open up my_abilities.lst.

Traits are internally handled as 'abilities'. This is the pre-installed Homebrew Campaign Thingy, which will do just fine for this purpose. Open up /data/pathfinder/homebrew/my_homebrew. This is achieved mostly by combining an existing Combat Trait with the claw attacks granted by the Maw or Claw Tiefling Alternate Racial trait, found in /data/pathfinder/paizo/roleplaying_game/advanced_players_guide/apg_abilities.lst and advanced_race_guide/arg_abilities_race.lst, respectively.

PCGEN CUSTOM SOURCES HOW TO

The following is an explanation on how to add a Combat Trait called 'Homebrew Trait' to the game, which adds two claw attacks dealing 1d4 points of damage. For more information about working with Homebrew files, I suggest looking into the documentation ( Help -> Documentation, F1), under the 'List Files' heading (Sadly, I cannot link to specific pages of the documentation here). However, this answer is in no way comprehensive, but meant to serve as a guide on how to patch your own homebrew stuff. By looking into the inner workings of PCGen, I have manage to cobble something together that seems to do the trick.

Pcgen custom sources