Player Template (Asset)

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A player template is a template for a character that gets randomly generated when you encounter them. Used in most random encounters. For boss encounters you\'ll want to use Player assets instead.

Field	Type	Default	Description
Label	String		A unique label for your template. Do not alter after creating.
Name	String		A name for your template. Does not have to be unique.
Species	String		Species for your template.
Voice	String		Voice kit. Not used by the official game.
Image	String		URL to the fully dressed NPC. Do not use if using advanced art layers.
Image Upper Body	String		URL to art of your NPC wearing only upper body armor. Do not use if using advanced art layers.
Image Lower Body	String		URL to art of your NPC wearing only lower body armor. Do not use if using advanced art layers.
Image Nude	String		URL to art of your NPC wearing no armor. Or if your NPC has only one art layer. Always use this field.
Image Base Path	String		Prepended to any art URLs (including advanced). Generally the domain.
Max Action	Int	3	Max actions the NPC can have, picked at random from the viable actions field. Use -1 for unlimited.
Min Level	Int	1	Minimum level for players to encounter this NPC unless there are no alternatives in the encounter that fit.
Max Level	Int	10	Maximum level for players to encounter this NPC unless there are no alternatives in the encounter that fit.
Max nr:	Int	-1	Sets a cap on how many of this NPCs may be generated into a single encounter. Use -1 for unlimited.
Carried copper:	Int	100	Max number of copper for this NPC to carry.
Gear quality	Float	0.2	Quality of gear worn and dropped.
Gear chance	Float	0.6	Chance of having a piece of equipment.
Min size	Float	4	Minimum size of NPC. Consider 4-7 to be humanoid range. Where 4 is shortstack, 5-6 average, and 7 freakishly tall. 0 is insect size and 10 a full sized dragon.
Max Size	Float	5	Maximum size of NPC.
Slots	Float	1	By default, the amount of slots in a random encounter is equal to the number of players, plus a random amount. Slots is a go to way of making an NPC more difficult. An NPC that takes up 2 slots becomes twice as powerful, but resulting in fewer NPCs as it takes up 2 NPC slots. Generally stick to 1 unless you're making a particularly difficult NPC.
Power	Float	1	Can be used to make a monster more or less difficult, but doesn't affect slots. Using slots instead is strongly recommended.
Armor	Int	0	Lets you add defensive armor (mainly to beasts since they don't wear armor). Value is percent in whole numbers. So 50 would reduce damage taken by 50% unless the attacker has a way to bypass armor. Recommended values are between 10 and 40.
No equip	Boolean	False	When checked, the NPC won't equip its generated gear. Mimics use this.
Sadistic min	Float	0.1	Mainly used for RP and punishment selection.
Sadistic Max	Float	1
Dominant Min	Float	0.5	Mainly used for RP, and punishment selection if players are defeated.
Dominant Max	Float	1
Hetero Min	Float	0	Mainly used for RP, but sexuality may also affect the player NPCs choose to attack.
Hetero Max	Float	1
Intelligence Min	Float	0.4	Mainly used for RP. But may also affect combat strategy. 0.4-0.6 is the span of human intelligence.
Intelligence Max	Float	0.5
Talkative Min	Float	0.3	Affects chance of NPC speaking during combat. The higher the value the higher the chance
Talkative Max	Float	1
Stats	Int	0	Affects base stats. Use these, but consider not using more than +-3 to any of these.
Description	String		Description of your NPC that shows when you inspect them.
Tags	Tags		Tag your character using the pl_ tags. Unlike editing tags in game, all tags should be prefixed with pl_
Advanced Icon States	Player Icon State		See the Advanced Art Layers guide.
Random unequipped loot	Random Loot		Lets you add random loot that shouldn't be equipped.
Viable Gear	Asset		Lets you add viable handheld assets that should be included in the equipment randomizer and equipped if possible.
Viable Asset Materials	Material Template		Materials of the viable asset templates field that should be included in the randomizer.
Viable Asset Templates	Asset Template		Asset templates that should be included in the randomizer.
Viable Consumables	Asset		Assets that can be equipped to potion slot.
Required Assets	Asset		Assets that are ALWAYS added, and equipped if possible.
Required Actions	Action		Actions that should ALWAYS be known, and bypass Max Actions.
Viable Classes	Player Class		Player classes that this NPC can be.
Passives	Wrapper		Passive wrappers.