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I created a race of creatures called Reaplings. With the ARG and the opportunity to play nonstandard races becoming more common I have begun converting the various Reaplings into the ARG rules.
The reaplings are similar to an ant colony except some of them are independant and inttelligent.
The reaplings actually have multiple forms.
The Queen form, which can make many things and are the only ones that can make more reaplings. The queen looks like a larger version of the leader forms and is large sized.
The Warrior forms, soldier, corporal, sergeant. These forms are playable but are a little lacking in intelligence. They are medium sized with elven like but bland features.
The Leader forms, scout, captain, major. These forms are better for players, they are the smart forms doing the intellectual tasks and the spellcasting for the colony. They also usually lead and direct the warrior and worker forms. They are small sized and have an elven torso with a snake like body instead of legs.
The Worker forms, micro, spider. These forms are tiny and small respectively. They have 4 legs and a stumpy torse with two arms sitting in the middle of the 4 spider like legs.
Stats
All reaplings have these traits.
7 pts Half construct
3 pts aberration (warriors are humanoid [reapling] instead)
3 pts Deathless spirit
-1 negative energy affinity
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Reapling leader forms have a snake tail instead of legs. Officially this isn't allowed for PC races because of the magic item slots. Personally I think giving up a magic item slot for immunity to tripping (or at least free action to stand up with no AOO) seems a bit of a fair trade.
Please note that deathless spirit and negative energy affinity cross, so reaplings basically have a resistance to healing. I figure this is a bigger penalty then the points account for so I recommend treating that combo as a few points cheaper without a counterbalance like fast healing.
Reapling scouts also have,
Size small
AbSc +2 dex & int -2 str
-1 pt light sensativity
2 pts climb speed 20'
2 pts swim speed 20'
15 points total
Reapling captains have
Size small
4 pts AbSc +4 dex +2 int, wis, & cha -2 str
3 pts SR greater 11+character lvl
2 pts climb 20'
2 pts swim 20'
23 points total
Reapling majors have the same as a captain plus
4 pts DR 5/magic
6 pts Fast healing 1
33 pts total
These are the ones I have built so far. I will post history and bg and such later and I will post the other forms as I get them made.
I actually, when I saw the name, thought you might be making some sort of strange "Dead Like Me" creature.
However, these look interesting. Looks more like it should be a bestiary entry, as opposed to a PC race.
Dot.
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I actually, when I saw the name, thought you might be making some sort of strange "Dead Like Me" creature.
However, these look interesting. Looks more like it should be a bestiary entry, as opposed to a PC race.
The workers and queen would be better suited as monsters. I actually created them as a random spontaneous encounter, just workers at the time, and eventually they became the focus of the campaign. Most of it spontaneously created. I kinda fell in love with the idea and have been expanding on it, particularly after the race maker came out, I wanted to play my made race and they were one of the first to my mind (afyer my race of "awakened tiger" like people.
Though I have been sorely dissappointed in the assumtions the race maker makes (such as requiring arms and legs, and the requirement of all the magic slots being available, basically must be roughly humanoid or centaurish. Both my two initial races I wanted to make broke those assumtions)
The workers and queen would be better suited as monsters. I actually created them as a random spontaneous encounter, just workers at the time, and eventually they became the focus of the campaign. Most of it spontaneously created. I kinda fell in love with the idea and have been expanding on it, particularly after the race maker came out, I wanted to play my made race and they were one of the first to my mind (afyer my race of "awakened tiger" like people.
Gotcha. I've done that with several creature types. Last year, I created a disease by which a character (PC or otherwise) can be slowly turned into a humanoid form of an insect/reptilian monster (Anasi; Anasi-spawn are the result of the disease).
Though I have been sorely dissappointed in the assumtions the race maker makes (such as requiring arms and legs, and the requirement of all the magic slots being available, basically must be roughly humanoid or centaurish. Both my two initial races I wanted to make broke those assumtions)
You could use the base forms of the Eidolons (Summoner) to solve this. Assume that a stripped down version of a "base form" is free:
Example QuadrupedSize Medium; Speed 40 ft.;
Fill in anything you can with the Race Builder, then finish it off with evolution points at an assumed value of 1 evolution point = 2 RP.
I'm not saying that's the best way to go, it's just the first idea I had when you mentioned the above quoted text.=)
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Shiara Sorenson is the creator of reaplings. She was experimenting with trying to make a clone, after an assassination attempt had robbed her of her first unborn child and left her unable to bear any more.
She did not succeed in making clones but she did succeed in making life, and she had made a few servents. She had eventually needed to flee the nation she had come from when the emporer had learned of what she had done, for he sent his soldiers to kill her and destroy her work. She escaped and after much travel encountered the king of a neighboring land while he was out hunting. The king thought the servents were fascinating. In exchange for giving him one he had given her a job making magic items for the army and given a lab and materials. The first servent she gave him had sacrificed itself to save him from an attack while returning to the castle. (Which was actually those tracking Shiara) so Shiara was asked to make him several more and so she created a reapling that could make more reaplings on it's own and command them. She gave this first reapling queen to the king. After many long years she was close to the king and would have been taken as his wife except that was unable to bear any hiers. One of the kings generals saw use in these servents as troops to bolster his army. She did not like the idea but was encouraged by the king. So the general set up a larger lab outside the city next to one of the army forts. She discovered that this was to get her out of the castle. While she was away there was a coup. The general tried to hide from her since her results were so promising, instead of killing her like he had been ordered by his real master. So was not deceived however she knew about the coup and his orders, so that evening she gave him three queens who could make him an army but these were upgraded from her previous makings and they needed better magic items to make, but they were far more capable then the previous servents she produced. Late that night she made several reaplings for own two queens and many others. The queens she gave to the general were loyal to her and as they were given many items to make an army they made many reaplings and then attacked the fort from within killing the general and most of his men.
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During the fighting Shiara and the two youngest queens left to the mountains. The three queens secured the fort and the prisoners, those few peons who had surrendered, then left with a few loyalists who declared themselves to the old king and Shiara. However the new king had been planning this for a long time and had an immediate alliance set up with the empire across the mountains who had supported the coup. The emporer's son wanted to see Shiara dead as she was the only one to have ever escaped and personnally supported the new king's army in hunt her down. They finally found her and there was a major battle in the mountains where the emporer's son rode his dragon mount and confronted Shiara herself. Shiara survived because one of the loyalist soldiers had taken her latest project, a golem that was controlled by the soldier inside. The golem was damaged beyond function but it and Shiara defeated and killed the emporer's son and his dragon mount. After that, the king's army retreated. Shiara took the body of the dragon and useing the birth item of many dead reaplings, turned it into the overseer, the largest reapling. The emporer was not happy about his son's death and full forces available to the emporer was mustered against her. So with the new king and the empire collecting their full might against her she fled across the sea to find a rumored stone that could make her a god. She didn't have time to take all the reaplings with her so one queen and her daughters, left, and the overseer was left behind in command those that remained, to hold against the hoard until she could return.
Shiara found the stone's temple, but the empire had flanked the forces left behind and followed her across the sea and a great battle was fought at the temple gates while Shiara and a twenty one companions went for the stone. When she found the stone only thirteen of her companions survived to watch her ascend. She could immedietly sense how few of her remaining forces had survived and how many enemy troops had made it into the temple, so she cast out the stone beyond the plane and out of reach of the imperial forces. She was a new god with little power as far as gods went but she was able to take her remaining forces home and there she secured the new king's throne and discovering the only remaining loyalist in the castle was the old captain of the guard, beaten and tortured and by divine right placed the old kings captain of the guard on the throne. However the other gods were extremely displeased with Shiara for losing the sacred stone, and they cast her out of the plane along with all her people that had come to the capitol and sent the one she had just named king as well so she would know that her beloved kingdom would exist no more. Some of her reaplings were left behind including the overseer because they were secureing their mountain homes, but most reaplings got cast out and scattered to the planes.
I was just gonna write a short summery but my fingers got carried away. That is the history of the reaplings, some of which was discovered by actual players of mine during the game that I invented the reaplings.
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The workers and queen would be better suited as monsters. I actually created them as a random spontaneous encounter, just workers at the time, and eventually they became the focus of the campaign. Most of it spontaneously created. I kinda fell in love with the idea and have been expanding on it, particularly after the race maker came out, I wanted to play my made race and they were one of the first to my mind (afyer my race of "awakened tiger" like people.Gotcha. I've done that with several creature types. Last year, I created a disease by which a character (PC or otherwise) can be slowly turned into a humanoid form of an insect/reptilian monster (Anasi; Anasi-spawn are the result of the disease).
Though I have been sorely dissappointed in the assumtions the race maker makes (such as requiring arms and legs, and the requirement of all the magic slots being available, basically must be roughly humanoid or centaurish. Both my two initial races I wanted to make broke those assumtions)You could use the base forms of the Eidolons (Summoner) to solve this. Assume that a stripped down version of a "base form" is free:
Example Quadruped
Size Medium; Speed 40 ft.;Fill in anything you can with the Race Builder, then finish it off with evolution points at an assumed value of 1 evolution point = 2 RP.
I'm not saying that's the best way to go, it's just the first idea I had when you mentioned the above quoted text.=)
Interesting idea, though I don't know much about summoners, guess I'll have to look them up.
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The reapling queen usually ingests the required materials and forms the new reaplings basic body inside her, then gives birth to the basic body ( though the basic body can be made by hand but usually takes much longer). The basic body is then wrapped and caccooned with a magic item placed inside the body. Then a special arcane circle is drawn around the outside of the caccoon in fresh black blood, which is what flows in any reaplings veins, and several days later the new reapling emerges, fully formed physically, though mentally a child like any other species.
Becoming an adult doesn't take very long for reaplings, who can learn quite quickly. Usually having a coming of age ceremony about a month later, though usually they can learn the bare neccesities in only a day or two. Becoming skillful takes considerably longer.
A reaplings powers usually depend on the strength of their birth item, the stronger the item, the stronger the reapling.
What most reaplings have not figured out yetis that when a reapling dies, and it's birth item is left behind, that item is actually an intelligent item, though usually dorment. Should it awake (either because it was used, weilded, or affected by magic or a magical person, then the intelligence remembers everything of it's life as a reapling, and can be "ressurrected" by making it another body and going through the same process as creating it the first time.
A similar process can be used to morph any leader type reapling into a queen, though that requires many more materials and much more time.
For PCs, if they can find the information needed or can be directed by the "dead" reapling awakened or another reapling (for all reaplings know the methods), they can use this process to bring back a reapling PC for about the same cost as rezzing normal PC races via the spell, however they must have access to fresh black blood (or that has been preserved with Gentle Repose spell), if the blood is taken from a living creature, the amount needed is 1d4+4 hp worth of black blood.
Also described how to bring back a dead reapling, since rezzing spells don't normally work on them (though reincarnate may work as it has never been specified and it is a special case spell in other aspects, even being able to ignore and reset the natural age limit)