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Ok, first, I’ll take a step back and think about the overall processing and theory behind what you’re trying to do. You want to have a bonus when a person has a certain item in their inventory to an attack. Before we even get to the details of that: 1. Is there more than one item that can generate a bonus in the game? 2. If there is more than one item, are the bonuses different for each item? 3. Can there be more than one item used at a single time? 4. If so, do the item bonuses stack, or should the game calculate just the highest bonus item? 5. Is there a max to the total bonus? 6. Can the bonus go negative? 7. Are there other potential modifiers to the attack bonus (location, option chosen)? I ask all these questions because the answers to them would determine how I would set up the variables and the process for the attack. This could be anything from zero variables to a whole stack of them (variables, not cats). If there is just one item, I would make this simpler and not even attempt to track anything. When the attack occurs, in the code for the attack, I’d simply add something simple using the ITEMSTATE option. For example, if success occurs when the attack is greater than 10 and having the item gives you a bonus of 5, I might do something like: IF %ATTACK + ($ITEMSTATE01 * 5) > 0 THEN attack success In this case, if the reader does not have the item, ITEMSTATE is zero, so it adds nothing. If the reader has the item, ITEMSTATE is 1, so five gets added to the attack attempt. I’m not 100% sure this actually works, I haven’t tried to use ITEMSTATE this way, but I think it would work. So… If you’re going to have more than one item or variable item bonuses, it might depend on how often you have attacks how you calculate the attack (yes, I really wish functions were available here, but they’re not). The problem with what we’ve discussed here is that if you just add to the bonus, any time that action happens, it will continue to add: In this case, if the just add five to the bonus when the reader has the item in their inventory, then ANY time that page is loaded, it will add five. So if I pick up the item and hit reload, I’m now at +10. If I try and use the item in my inventory, the page will tell me I can’t use it, then reload the page: +15. If I navigate to another room and return to this page: yes, now it’s +20. So just openly adding 5 isn’t going to work logistically in the long run. This is why so many questions about options. You could have a variable that just has attackbonus. Before you use it, you could load it with a stack of IF statements: %ATTACKBNS = 0 IF $ITEMSTATE01 = 1 THEN %ATTACKBNS = 5 IF $ITEMSTATE02 = 1 THEN %ATTACKBNS = %ATTACKBNS + 3 IF $ITEMSTATE03 = 1 THEN %ATTACKBNS = %ATTACKBNS + 4 And so on. You would need to do that calculation before each attack. That may be the simplest way to approach this, then you aren’t trying to make adjustments on the fly every time an item is picked up or put down (though you could do that, likely through ghost pages and scripts). Hope that helps!