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I have searched the Paizo boards for posts on Gillmen, and I cannot find any post which breaks down the point cost for the Gillmen race. Please forgive me if this is a repeat (and please point me to that discussion).
Of particular interest to me are the "Enchantment Resistance" and "Water Dependent" point costs.
The "Slimehunter" racial trait replaces enchantment resistance, and I can see no drawback to Slimehunter (unlike Enchantment Resistance), so I assume Enchantment Resistance has a net positive point cost. But what is it? It is similar to Elven Immunities?
Water Dependent can be very deadly, so I would expect it to have a high negative cost. However, Throwback cancels it out be removing:
amphibious trait (2 RP)
aquatic subtype (0 RP)
swim speed and bonuses to the Swim skill (2 RP)
which, according to my math, would give "Water Dependent" a -4 RP cost.
Is that correct?
The Gillmen cost would be only 2 RP?!
Gillmen
0 RP Type: Humanoid (gillmen, aquatic)
0 RP Size: Medium
0 RP Base Speed: Normal speed
0 RP Ability Score Modifiers: Standard (+2 Con, +2 Cha, –2 Wis)
0 RP Languages: Standard
Racial Traits:
Defense Racial Traits
2 RP Enchantment Resistance (guessing value of 2)
Movement Racial Traits
2 RP Swim
Weakness Racial Traits
-4 RP Water Dependent
Other Racial Traits
2 RP Amphibious
Am I missing anything here?
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Actually, based on what I've read elsewhere, Enchantment Resistance is not quite as good as Elven Immunities, so I'd lower that point cost to 1, making the Gillmen cost only 1 RP?!
Gillmen
0 RP Type: Humanoid (gillmen, aquatic)
0 RP Size: Medium
0 RP Base Speed: Normal speed
0 RP Ability Score Modifiers: Standard (+2 Con, +2 Cha, –2 Wis)
0 RP Languages: Standard
Racial Traits:
Defense Racial Traits
1 RP Enchantment Resistance (guessing value of 1)
Movement Racial Traits
2 RP Swim
Weakness Racial Traits
-4 RP Water Dependent
Other Racial Traits
2 RP Amphibious
Am I missing anything here?
Slimehunter also has a lot less bonus than enchantment reisstance does...
Anyway, a lot of the trade-outs are not in fact perfectly balanced RP-wise.
I wish there were RP total and breakdowns for Merfolk, but they probably omitted that since they would be so high...