[mod release] The Lone Polymath—trinket buffing skills for soloists

The Lone Polymath is now available at the Deadfire Nexus.

This adds a trinket (and an identical ring for grimoire lovin' wizards) intended to help those soloing tackle skill checks without the benefit of party assist.

I really want to do an item that instead multiplies skills, but there's no "SkillMult" or "SkillAllMult" status effect types that I'm aware of (trying to add a skill's value to itself resulted in numerous violations of the time/space continuum and shan't be discussed further here   ).

The Lone Polymath is a cheat and/or a tool.  It's ridiculously overpowered and yet not really enough.  Do with it as you will.

Thanks to @peardox for the post in which numerous function names were revealed, including Boolean IsAnyCompanionActiveInParty() which is exactly what I was looking for.  (As anyone who has been crestfallen at how the

"loner" ability of some items are defeated by the simple addition of a pet or animal companion has indirectly learned, the Boolean IsAllyCount(Guid, Single, Operator, Int32) function has no filter.)

Edited June 12, 20187 yr by Nukenin