Race Conversion and All-Around Sight

[JASON YARNELL]

Hello all,

I am currently converting a race over from Hero System to Pathfinder using the ARG.

The race is, thus far, a Standard race at 10RP and I need to get one more Trait...All-Around Sight. Based on Point Value alone, this will increase the Power Level to Advanced. No problem at all.

However, the Trait I need is a Monstrous level trait, which means, as near as I can tell, I would have to spend about 6-7 more RP just to reach the 20RP minimum for Monstrous power level, just so I can get a single Trait.

Is there a work around? Do I have to meet the minimum RP listed in the table for the Monstrous Power Level?

I'd to have to tack on a bunch of additional Traits that don't reflect the race at all, just to get a single trait that does.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

[cartmanbeck]

JASON YARNELL wrote:

Hello all,

I am currently converting a race over from Hero System to Pathfinder using the ARG.

The race is, thus far, a Standard race at 10RP and I need to get one more Trait...All-Around Sight. Based on Point Value alone, this will increase the Power Level to Advanced. No problem at all.

However, the Trait I need is a Monstrous level trait, which means, as near as I can tell, I would have to spend about 6-7 more RP just to reach the 20RP minimum for Monstrous power level, just so I can get a single Trait.

Is there a work around? Do I have to meet the minimum RP listed in the table for the Monstrous Power Level?

I'd to have to tack on a bunch of additional Traits that don't reflect the race at all, just to get a single trait that does.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

From what I can tell, you don't NEED to have 20 points to hit Monstrous power level, but if you use a Monstrous trait you should consider the creature to be Monstrous power level.

From the book: "Table
4–1 summarizes the number of RP you can spend as well
as the maximum number of traits per racial trait category
you can take based on your power level."

This means you CAN use more than 20 RP for a Monstrous race, but it's not a minimum. However, using a Monstrous trait automatically makes the creature Monstrous.

Does that make sense?

Now, what you could do to give it a few more points and get it up to closer to 20, so that it's on par with other monstrous races, is just give it a static feat (chosen by you, maybe Toughness or something like that) and a flexible feat (chosen by the player at 1st level). That'll add you another 6 RP and won't affect the flavor of the race at all.

[JASON YARNELL]

Hm, that sounds like a solid solution. Thank you, sir.

[cartmanbeck]

JASON YARNELL wrote:

Hm, that sounds like a solid solution. Thank you, sir.

Very welcome. Just remember that race traits can by default only be taken once, so that's why you have to do a static feat and a flexible feat, not two or three of each one.