Book 7, Section 233, Mindblast bonus missing

[lonevvolf]

I believe there's an issue in Book 7, section 233. If you don't have Psi-Surge, there should still be double damage due to Mindblast. The doubling is not applied.

[cracrayol]

Your fix is good if you start from book 1.
But if you start from another book and never take Mindblast, it's up to the player to choose if it has all kai disciplines or not when starting magnakai.
The best will be to ask him when starting a new game from book > 5 or when changing book serie if not previously started from first book of the serie (kai > magnakai / magnakai > grand master), but need more development than a simple fix.
https://www.projectaon.org/en/ReadersHandbook/MagnakaiDisciplines

[lonevvolf]

Wow. This makes it very complicated. Does the app keep track of completed books?

[cracrayol]

You can get previous action charts with state.getPreviousBookActionChart(bookNumber).

And the current actionChart store all the disciplines selected by the user (see kaiDisciplines/magnakaiDisciplines/grandMasterDisciplines arrays)

[lonevvolf]

I've dug into this - the app actually handles the disciplines from the previous books as one would expect. It does keep track of whether they actually have the skills, I don't think we need to add anything about getting Kai skills when starting Magnakai, unless this is mentioned somewhere in the rules/newsletters?
Regarding this specific case, well, what a mess. It's literally the only instance of having to check for Mindblast discipline in the books after the Kai series. The basic Mindblast bonus and even bonus multiplier for susceptible enemies is already implemented there. The only difference is in this section, it should double the ENDURANCE lost, instead of doubling the bonus. In order to get this to work correctly, we would have to change the book validation (so that a mindblast check is allowed in a Magnakai book), and also implement the checking of previous book disciplines for just this one case in all the books. I've implemented it locally, but it's such a change for one section that I really don't like it.