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I'm working on finally statting some of the homebrew races that are unique to my game group's world thanks to the ARG. I'm having a little trouble hammering out how to handle a racial feat that definitely needs to be available for one of them.
Mated Pair [Combat]
Prerequisites: Ansvar
Benefit: Designate an ally as your mate. While your mate is alive, you gain the benefits of Paired Opportunists, Coordinated Defense and Swap Places when you are adjacent to your mate. Your mate is considered to have these feats for the purposes of determining if you gain the bonuses from those feats. You may never designate another ally as your mate; however, if your mate dies, you may exchange this feat for one of the three feats it emulates.
Basically the Ansvar choose a life partner as a battle companion. This is functionally equivalent to a marriage in their society, but is more of a martial contract than a marital one. The two agree to fight by each others' side until death. Usually, if one of the two dies, the other chooses to fight to the death over the corpse of its mate. If the one survives, it never chooses another mate.
The two ansvar are supposed to basically learn to fight as one unit, perfectly aware of the others' movements and capable covering their weaknesses and exploiting openings they open from their foes. The ansvar are a large people, or I would have gone with the ratfolk's swarming ability.
Mechanically, I think it does what I want it to do, or at least feels like I want it to, but I think it might be a little powerful. I'm thinking the limitation on being only one other creature ever warrants getting three feats for the price of one.
What do you think? Is it balanced? Is it worded well enough?
Bump.
As you said, it only works with ONE very specific person and NEVER with any other (no "re-marriage").
Maybe you should remove one feat, though.
If it will become "common" for the player's to play such couples, it might be a bit too much.
But, all in all, I think it's fine AND a nice flair.
Greetings,
- DD
EDIT:
Maybe allow all three feats but only one feat per turn.
Go to my thread on 'At the risk of sounding stupid...Character Class Decon' (I would give the link, but I have yet to figure that one out.)
This may help to put some things into perspective. Mind you, this actually helps me seeing where you are going here as well.
Thank you.
As you said, it only works with ONE very specific person and NEVER with any other (no "re-marriage").
Maybe you should remove one feat, though.
If it will become "common" for the player's to play such couples, it might be a bit too much.
But, all in all, I think it's fine AND a nice flair.
Greetings,
- DD
EDIT:
Maybe allow all three feats but only one feat per turn.
Yes. The one per turn part was the bit I was missing. Thanks!
Happy to be of service! ;)