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Encounter sets

Encounter sets are defined in Strange Eons in one of two ways

1. In the Preferences of the AHLCG plugin and then picked per card from a drop-down
2. On individual cards as a custom image

The first approach is preferable because

• It gives a first-class name to the encounter set
• The icon is only specified once and therefore any edits are easier to change for the entire set
• On individual cards encounter sets are picked from a list, reducing user error

However the second approach is prevelant in user content as it is easier to find. Zoop handles these in different ways to group cards into encounter sets.

Encounter set identification

For 1 above identification is straightforward as all cards in the set are linked to the configured encounter set.

For 2 the only available data is a custom image path. Zoop takes the filename of this image (with the extension removed) and uses this to both assign a name to the encounter set and use it as the unique key for grouping.

When is the encounter set relevant?

The encounter set is relevant when

• Assigning collection numbers - encounter set is an important sorting criteria for cards - see Automatic numbering
• Card database export - encounter set information is exported along with the individual card data - see Card database export
• When unrolling encounter sets - see Encounter set unrolling

Overriding the encounter set name

When 2 above is used the filename is used to derive the name of the encounter set. This may result in badly/incorrectly named encounter sets.

The recommended way of fixing this is to switch to option 1 above. Alternatively you can override the encounter set name by using an instruction