Experimenting with JS save editing. Noticed that the Frostwyrm (among others) have this flag, but it doesn't seem to affect other characters? Am I missing something?
"Force Fem Gender" doesn't work on NPC's?
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TheShepard256
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The Force Gender status effects only work on the
... with one possible exception. If that NPC is a potential combat companion, they may come under an effect that is written to be generic i.e. it uses parsers to allow the writing to be accurate to any possible combat participant (so long as their statblock is set up correctly). If you give that NPC a Force Gender effect, go on the quest where they're a combat ally, and they come under a combat effect that uses a gender-based pronoun parser, then the resulting text would display the forced gender rather than their canonical gender.
mfn() parser and anything that flows from it (mf(), heShe, etc.). The vast majority of NPCs are written to be a single gender with no option to change that gender, so their writing doesn't bother with those parsers and thus the Force Gender effects don't work on them.... with one possible exception. If that NPC is a potential combat companion, they may come under an effect that is written to be generic i.e. it uses parsers to allow the writing to be accurate to any possible combat participant (so long as their statblock is set up correctly). If you give that NPC a Force Gender effect, go on the quest where they're a combat ally, and they come under a combat effect that uses a gender-based pronoun parser, then the resulting text would display the forced gender rather than their canonical gender.