Request: Add the option for a Stress mechanic

[Sam Barrie]

Stress is a new mechanic in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft.

Stress can be tracked numerically as a Stress Score, increasing in trying situations and decreasing with care.

At the DM’s discression discretion, a character’s Stress Score might increase by 1 when relevant situations occur

When a character makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, they must apply their current Stress Score as a penalty to the roll.

Stress is a blanket debuff for all d20 rolls

[Kim Mantas]

It should already be possible to model this:

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[Sam Barrie]

From a UX point of view this isn't especially good, having players have to go into their features and then manually add or remove a new point of stress (or sanity or.. etc) seems worse than being able to increase or decrease a score as you would if you were increasing or decreasing an ability, or health.

If there were a way to make a macro that affected that value it would be a different issue (macro for increase/decrease variable) but as it can't be derived from anything it doesn't work like that

[Sam Barrie]

in the way I’m proposing it would look more like this:

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[Kim Mantas]

Here’s a macro that will increase a selected character’s stress:

if (!token) return;
const actor = token.actor;
const stress = actor.items.getName('Stress');
if (!stress) return;
const effects = getProperty(stress.toObject(), 'flags.obsidian.effects');
if (!effects?.length) return;
const bonus = effects.flatMap(e => e.components).find(c => c.type === 'bonus');
if (!bonus) return;
bonus.bonus--;
stress.setFlag('obsidian', 'effects', effects);

Though this won’t actually work in 0.7 I don’t think. You would have to replace:

const effects = getProperty(stress.toObject(), 'flags.obsidian.effects');

With:

const effects = duplicate(stress.getFlag('obsidian', 'effects'));

To get it working in 0.7.