+5 Toaster |
first a slight Lreeko revision
+2 dex, +2 wis, -2chr
small size
Normal Speed
Camouflage x2 (forest and jungle) 2 RP
Silent Hunter 2 RP
Skill Bonus (survival) 2 RP
Sticky Tongue 2 RP
Stalker 1 RP
climb 2RP
Expert Climber 4RP
15 RP
and a Urebeast feat
Through a strict training regimen you have gain your ancestors naturally strong tail
Prerequisites
Urebeast, Str 11
Benefit
You gain both the slapping tail and tripping tail racial abilities
LazarX |
I wanted to avoid the stereotype of hive mentality equals hive mind.
Olaf Stapledon (one of the really early authors who wrote back when antediluvian was still a catch word to use in speculative fiction), conceived a tier system for the Fifth and Eighteenth Men. Where each person maintained their own individuality, but would also put time in the communal mind. (kind of like reporting for Jury duty, save wholly voluntarily) in "First and Last Men".
Word to the wise though, if anyone decides to read the book, I would strongly advise skipping the first four chapters on the first reading and just go straight to the Fall of the First Men. Stapledon wrote when there was a lot of justified bad feeling against America when the latter had snubbed the League of Nations and that comes out in those chapters rather strongly and may unfairly prejudice one from reading the real meat of the book.
OmNomNid |
Alright, let's examine what makes for an average Dreg.
First, what I imagined for attributes: +2 Int, +2 Con, -2 Wis
Next: Wild Talent. Dregs culture rarely dabbles in magic, besides alchemy, yet psionics is prevalent in the society. They need to be natually psionic.
Despite being fish, my vision sees them as poor swimmers. They built their cities on the bottom of oceanic trenches, only recently moving inland to construct cities half on the shore. So I was thinking that maybe they have Slow and Steady to show how they would trudge across the bottom of the ocean in full plate to wage war on one another.
Also maybe an ability to use Int in place for heal as they treat anatomy with cold logic in place of eased practice.
Azaelas Fayth |
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I might PM you some questions on how the Psionic System Works...
What Psionic Books do you use?
I normally use all Paizo Sources... & I normally modify the Classes.
I have a setting where knowledge is so easy to obtain that every class gets +2 to its base Skill Points per Level and the Minimum Skill Ranks possible is 2 Skill Points.
Psionics might be nice... Though I would prefer them to follow something similar to the Spell Slot System as that would make it a bit more even and allow an easier meshing of Psionics, Mages, & my Modular Spell Slot System.
OmNomNid |
I use Dreamscarred Presses's Psionic-Point System. Though I do also have a psychic class [which uses spells with and interesting cast system] from the Tome of the Bizarre and my own homebrew Psychic which is a 'psion warlock' and is mostly inspired as a direct pull over from the 2nd Edition Psioniscist. I hate using spell slots for psionics because then it's just another type of magic. I hate that. I aslo use Pact magic, updated incarnum, riven magic, ki, spell weaving, and a homebrew take on the Force call Focus/Will.
OmNomNid |
So this seems to be shaping up to be an interesting campaign.
Side-Topic: Sweet. But I still am very leery of mixing Mages with Psionics...
Sorry for the sight Thread-Jacking...
I can hear you; I have had many players come along who voiced the same issue when I ran things. But I honestly feel alternate Supernatural systems are bad when balanced. Dreamscared's is balanced, as are the other 'magic' systems I use in my campaigns. Player's who find all of these different sources off putting usually change their mind when they encounter my Worlds spanning order the Five Chasers.
And Toaster, when ever you can man, no rush. I love your work with the Adv. Race Guide and can't wait to see what you do for the Dregs.
+5 Toaster |
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