eTool bugs, in lieu of Fluid's Boards

[mattcolville]

1) I created a 5th halfling rogue, nothing odd. His AC is off by two because it seems to think that Studded Leather's +5 Max Dex Bonus is really +3. This is incorrect.

2) Goggles of Minute Seeing aren't granting their bonus to Spot (or search or whatever it is.)

These should be easy to fix, but I don't have Access.

 

[mattcolville]

Ok, well it turns out I do have access and I was able to find the Studded Leather entry. Unless there's something about Access I don't understand, it shows the Max Dex correctly. So why does the character sheet say his +1 studded leather has a max dex of +3?

 

[mattcolville]

Ok, I opened up the Wonderous Items Bonuses group and found there was no listing for Goggles of Minute Seeing. So I added a record. Never done any of this before, first time using Access. Let's see if my halfling Rogue has the bonus right.

Will I have to recreate the character or will changes to the Access DBase automatically reflect next time I open the program or character.

 

[mattcolville]

Ok, the Dbase didn't automatically update, or I did it wrong. I'll try ditching the goggles and then rebuying them.

Also, it's listing the Studded Leather's Max Dex correctly. But though my rogue has +5 dex bonus, under the AC breakdown up top of the char sheet, it says "Dex Bonus +3." So is there a rule that I don't know about that won't let a halfling rogue witha 20 dex and +1 leather get all +5 of his dex bonus?

 

[mattcolville]

Ok, the Goggles aren't granting their bonus because, according to the DMG, it only works on. . .well things like seams, cracks, and flaws in objects. However, that doesn't explain why, when I added the bonus in access, it didn't start adding it all the time. I didn't put any restriction like the DMG one on it. Is it necessary to link the Item entry in one group with the Bonus entry in the other group?

 

[EricNoah]

1) I built a 5th level halfling rogue with 20 dex, equipped him with studded leather armor, and am getting all of his dex bonus -- on the stat block and both character sheet formats. 10 + 3 for armor + 5 for dex + 1 for size = 19. If you're still having a problem could you e-mail me your .chr file (minus any purchased or equipped custom items). ericnoah@charter.net

2) I don't have Access on my machine any more so I can't help you with the database stuff at the moment.

 

[EricNoah]

Oh, you know what, I bet you're getting a max dex limit due to encumbrance -- how much stuff is that little guy carrying?

 

[shadoe]

On the gogles issue, did you equip them where you wield weapons? I found that one out by trial an error.

 

[Margaiaman]

Bug

When equiping weapons there is a pull down tab that lets you select all, melee, or ranged. This feature appears to do nothing. I presume it allows one to only see the said category, yet I have found no change. (Yes I have several of both types of weapons in my list)

 

[Mordeth]

I am having trouble with magical shield and magical armor bonus stacking, a +3 shield and a +3 armor shows the AC base bonus correctly but the magic box only has 3. Anyone else seen this, it did it even with standard bought magic items.