Other than a manual and wish spell, what else can give a character an inherent bonus, as per the official rules?
And also, what other possible sources of inherent bonuses do you personally houserule as being available, and at what price?
Abyssal, orc and alternate infernal bloodline of wildblooded archetype bloodlines for sorcerers grant inherent bonus to Strength/Strength/Constitution.
Thanks for those!
At first I thought it'd be a piddly amount, but +6 at 17 is really not a bad bonus at all! I just wish it scaled by +1s more often instead of +2s rarely...
The other question still remains, though:
And also, what other possible sources of inherent bonuses do you personally houserule as being available, and at what price?
I always viewed the inherent bonus as wish-bonus and thus limited to those few already existing sources.
Maybe magic pools/fountains, magic elixirs (that practically would be liquid equivalent of the tomes and cost the same).
Funny thing about inherent bonuses: they don't stack with themselves, but the price increase is linear. Why is it so?
In my own campaign, I am running a sidequest about gathering "essential elixirs", alchemical substances that can increase ability scores, health, individual skills, etc. I am also running them as stackable, as they are linear price progression slotless items that only ever go as high as +5, and are still hilariously expensive, at ~25k for ability elixirs, ~5k for skill elixirs.
As I understand it, inherent bonus cost is generally based on wish costs plus a "fee" for having to avoid casting multiple wishes in quick succession. Tomes are just one or more wishes bound in parchment and leather.
High price is also intended to make it hard to get. Ability scores are already ridiculously inflated at higher levels.
Funny thing about inherent bonuses: they don't stack with themselves, but the price increase is linear. Why is it so?
One of my few House Rules. I allow them to stack simply because the cost of 5 +1 stat books is equal to that of a +5 book. RAW my players used to never use a book under a +4 stat increase because it was wasted if they found a better book. Now they can use that +2 stat book and the +3 stat book they find a few months later and they stack.
Other than that I dont have any other house rules about stacking inherent bonuses. They cap at +5 unless you take a bloodline that gives you a bonus of +6. The books stack but they do not stack with wishes or bloodlines.
I know there is at least one story feat that grants an Inherent bonus to a stat as soon as you fulfill the story.
So, uh, here's how I handle wishes and where additional inherent bonuses can apply to.
Doesn't exactly answer your question, but it opens up more options (and does note that in 3.5 there was a way to get an inherent bonus to a skill (+30 from the Nether Scrolls).
That thread has some neat ideas. Some are similar to what I already employ, but I still may end up lifting some others.
Feel free! I love it when people steal from me! :)
... well, steal ideas from me.
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... that I've given away for free. :)