Ability score and modifier in blue with asterisk

Hi all, I ran into a weird issue with my character sheet this week and wanted to share the workaroud, because old forum posts on the topic didn't have this solution. My wisdom score mysteriously doubled and changed to a bright blue colour with an asterisk beside it, which made my modifier outrageously high and impacted any wisdom-based rolls. I couldn't get the score to change back by typing the right score in, or updating the score in the settings or attributes and abilities. I ended up building a brand new character sheet from scratch BUT the same problem happened in that sheet too. Ultimately, I figured out that it was caused by a new item that I had added to my inventory. I had written a note-to-self in the "mods" section, to help remember what the item could do, thinking that it wouldn't impact anything. The text said "advantage on wisdom (perception) checks and..." and I think that triggered permanent advantage on my Wisdom score. I just deleted that text and the problem was solved! So, if you run into a similar issue, check/uncheck any new items that you've added to your inventory to see if that's the cause. Hope this is helpful!

This bug can be fixed by finding the 2 fields in the third abilities tab.  This bug can be reproduced by drag and dropping gauntlets of ogre power onto a sheet, then deleting them without unequipping them.  To fix this without doing complicated searches on the third tab, if you know the item that did it, redrag it onto the sheet, unequip it, then delete it.  If you made the item up, drag out one of the items that does something similar and find its entries that mod attributes and change it to mod your trouble attribute, then toggle equip/unequip till the blue attribute shuts off.  

DM Eddie said: This bug can be fixed by finding the 2 fields in the third abilities tab.  This bug can be reproduced by drag and dropping gauntlets of ogre power onto a sheet, then deleting them without unequipping them.  To fix this without doing complicated searches on the third tab, if you know the item that did it, redrag it onto the sheet, unequip it, then delete it.  If you made the item up, drag out one of the items that does something similar and find its entries that mod attributes and change it to mod your trouble attribute, then toggle equip/unequip till the blue attribute shuts off.   I can't reproduce this. If I drop Gauntlets of Ogre Power onto a sheet, the character's Str goes up, in blue with an asterisk as expected. If I delete without unequipping it goes back down. Am I missing a step? There used to be a very old bug that would hard-code item adjustments into the character if they were leveled up by Charactermancer while the item was equipped, but that was quashed a couple of years ago, IIRC. I'd stay away from entering values into the Attributes and Abilities tab unless absolutely necessary. It doesn't always play well with sheetworkers. Custom attributes are fin, of course.