FANTASY GROUNDS 5E Automatic Effects - Essentials [BUNDLE]

Are there any plans to add the races and subclasses presented in Spalljammer and Dragonlance to the list of Automated Effects modules?

Also, the bug on the Psionic Powers class feature of the PsiWarrior and SoulKnife in Automated Effect's Tasha's Cauldron of Everything hasn't been fixed yet.

if i want to use this bundle is there anything else needed (like an extension) to make it work?

Hi, I read that Automatic effects (which I have), Equipped Effects (which I have) and Better Combat Effects Gold (which I don't have) are now integrated. Does that mean that the effects in the automatic effects bundle will be rewritten to take full advantage of the newly available BCEG effects? I had tried them before and found many of the effects lacked automation when compared to the other effects bundles that I had been using so I had to switch back to that other bundle. If BCEG will fully automate the Automated Effects then I will want to try them again. Please advice. Thanks, Web

OK so if I bought "Equipped Effects extension" here how do I get updates for it now?

We just wanted to let you know about a significant change in the next release of 5E Automatic Effects.

[Why the change?]
As we continue to expand the project and add new effects and new books, we're a little limited by the order in which Fantasy Grounds will load modules. This load order determines which entries get prioritization if there is ever a naming conflict. Although we've been able to work with it so far, our upcoming plans will be hampered by this limitation. It's time to XXX the bullet, make the change, and establish a more robust framework for the future.
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[What's changing?]
With the next release of 5E Automatic Effects, you will notice that the names of the modules have changed. Although the filenames have remained the same, the internal name now has a numeric prefix. This additional number will allow us to sort the modules in the preferred order. Core rule books will have a higher weight than supplements, who in turn will have a higher weight than adventures....See more />

[How does this affect me?]
Hopefully very little. New campaigns and new characters won't even notice the change. Everything will just work as expected. For existing campaigns and characters which are already using effects, they may need to be replaced. This is because all actions on the character sheet are actually copies of the original effect. If an effect has a link to another 5eAE resource, that link will still point to the original name, not the revised name.

For example, if your character has the spell 'Flaming Sphere', the spell contains a link to a NPC which can be used as part of the effect. The link text is "NPC: Flaming Sphere (Arcane Object)(5eAE)". Under the hood, that link is pointing to the module with the internal name of "5E Automatic Effects Player's Handbook". That copy of the spell doesn't know to look for the new name of "5E Automatic Effects 0.1: Player's Handbook"

[What do I need to do?]
You have a couple of options:

1) Nuke it from orbit. If you're using Equipped Effects, you can simply remove all effects from all character sheets. Then remove the character from the combat track and put it back. EE will replace all of the missing effects. While this seems like a quick and dirty method, it won't properly handle the character's spell choices, and you'll be better off with options 2 or 3. Probably better for lower level campaigns without a lot of spells.

2) Swap as you go. If you or a player gets a module load warning that the module is not loaded - a) Close the warning. b) Delete the effect from the character sheet c) Drag a replacement copy from the spell. This method requires the least advanced work, but there will be brief interruption to your game while you resolve the issue. This is probably the preferred method because you only have to deal with the effects that are actually in use and actually have the conflict

3) Advanced Scouting. You'll use the same process as option 2, but you'll do it ahead of time. Open each link to an effect on the character's actions tab. Look at the detail description and see if there are any supplementary links pointing to something with the (5eAE) suffix. If so, delete and replace that effect on the sheet. This method prevents any interruption to game play, however brief, but does require more up front work.

[What's next?]
5eAE continues to grow and mature. First off, we didn't want you to think that we were only giving you potentially bad news. As part of the next release, you will also notice that spells, scrolls, invocations, etc. now have a more detailed spell summary on them. This is a great way to see at a glance what a spell does. For those of you who prefer the summary view of your powers on the character sheet, this will be amazing for you.

After a very close vote by the community, the next book to be covered will be "Eberron: Rising of the Last War", and is currently in production.

Beyond that, we're not quite ready to share any more than this - there's a reason we needed to make sure that core books loaded before adventures.

Hello Everyone,

With paid extensions moving to the Fantasy Grounds Forge, the Equipped Effects extension is no longer available on the DMsGuild as of August 1st, 2021. You can find it here: https://forge.fantasygrounds.com/shop/items/158/view

If you have questions or concerns, please join our discord: https://discord.gg/N7MM93a

This is likely as much a question for DMsGuild as Grim Press, but I just purchased the bundle:

FANTASY GROUNDS 5E Automatic Effects - All Rule Books [BUNDLE]

While I can go into my library to download the files that are part of this bundle, neither the bundle nor individual products show in the store as "You have already purchased". Because of this the store is wanting to charge (effectively an extra) $6.36 for the other thing I wanted to purchase, namely the Silent Ruin bundle which also includes his Equipped Effects extension. I've not given it much attention in the past, but I always thought this happened immediately. Is there something setup incorrectly for this bundle that isn't giving me credit for purchasing individual components or do I just need to give it more time to process my purchase?

So I've been using the Rob2e stuff for three years, that's been the only "coding" package (or whatever you want to call it) I've used...(yes this was after I learned how to manually do this stuff myself and understand , for the most part, how FG parses and what not - but I wasn't about to manually do the volume of items and character features on my own hence why I like when folks like Rob and you do this stuff for me...) to the point having been reading forum posts and watching YouTube videos I do finally understand the extra utility the Grim Press package offers. Here's my concern as I'm *VERY* close to buying this bundle....As the DM in my games all my players built their characters logged into my FG session of course -- which was running the Rob2e products...that's how their spells were coded , character features, etc. So is all that work lost if I try this product for my "coding solution" so to speak and unload the Rob2e products from my FGU campaign?

As modules for all official WotC rule books are created, they will be added to this bundle.