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Bloodline of Kings/Bloodline of Dragonmarks
« on: November 12, 2016, 08:11:29 PM »
So reviewing Bloodlines as one of my players expressed interest, I thought again of their relationship to Birthright Bloodlines and my thought of rewriting those to the UA format.
That made me think of just making "Blood of Kings" generic bloodline.
And then out of nowhere I thought about Dragonmarks.
Thus:

Blood of Kings
1st   Diplomacy +2
2nd   Favored
3rd   Charisma +1
4th   Leadership
5th   Subject Affinity +2
6th   Guildmaster**
7th   Sense Motive +2
8th   Landlord**
9th   Wisdom +1
10th   Rulership**
11th   Subject Affinity +4
12th   (Epic) Leadership*
13th   Bluff +2
14th   Extra Followers
15th   Intelligence +1
16th   Improved Cohort
17th   Subject Affinity +6
18th   Legendary Commander*
19th   Intimidate +2
20th   Mind Blank 1/day ***

Subject Affinity: The affinity skill bonus for those with the Blood of Kings applies to anyone they are in charge of, starting with their followers, and continuing with any subjects they rule over.
* Powers of Faerun allows for Leadership scores above 25 (essentially, Epic Leadership), as the default. This uses that and grants Epic Leadership and Legendary Commander as bonus feats.
** Guildmaster (DMG II), Landlord (SBG), and Rulership (PF) all assume some use of additional optional rules from those books. If you do not want to incorporate those rules, consider replacing these with other Leadership based feats. Wild Cohort, Dragon Cohort, Undead Cohort would be prime options.
*** Other capstones in the book are immunity to an energy type or DR. This is effectively immunity mind-affecting spells. I figured it was reasonable for a king.

Dragonmark Bloodline
1st   (mark skill) +2
2nd   Least Dragonmark
3rd   Charisma +1
4th   Dragonmark Prodigy
5th   Dragonmark Affinity +2
6th   Lesser Dragonmark
7th   (mark skill) +2
8th   Dragonmark Adept
9th   Strength or Dexterity +1
10th   Greater Dragonmark
11th   Dragonmark Affinity +4
12th   Dragonmark Visionary
13th   (mark skill) +2
14th   Siberys Mark
15th   Intelligence or Wisdom +1
16th   Least Dragonmark Mastery*
17th   Dragonmark Affinity +6
18th   Lesser Dragonmark Mastery*
19th   (mark skill) +2
20th   Greater Dragonmark Mastery*

Dragonmark Affinity: The bonus applies to people with the same Dragonmark/members of the same Dragonmarked House.
Skills: Are by dragonmark;
Mark of Detection: Spot/Diplomacy/Listen/Sense Motive
Mark of Finding: Search/Intimidate/Knowledge (nature)/Survival
Mark of Handling: Handle Animal/Heal/Ride/Survival
Mark of Healing: Healing/Knowledge (nature)/Sense Motive/Diplomacy
Mark of Hospitality: Diplomacy/Knowledge (local)/Sense Motive/Diplomacy
Mark of Making: Craft/Knowledge (local)/Appraise/Diplomacy
Mark of Passage: Diplomacy/Knowledge (local)/Bluff/Ride
Mark of Scribing: Decipher Script/Speak Language/Profession/Forgery
Mark of Sentinel: Sense Motive/Intimidate/Handle Animal/Ride
Mark of Shadow: Gather Information/Disguise/Move Silently/Listen
Mark of Storm: Balance/Knowledge (geography)/Climb/Swim
Mark of Warding: Search/Knowledge (a&e)/Disable Device/Craft
Ability boost: Should be variable by Dragonmark. The table has generic choices.

* Least/Lesser/Greater Dragonmark Mastery are as per the Dragonmark Heir prestige class.

They essentially get all the dragonmark benefits of the Dragonmark Heir and Heir of Siberys prestige classes except for the bonus action points.
The highest level benefits are not particularly spectacular, but the alternative would be losing them completely or delaying the Siberys Mark until 20th level, and that didn't seem useful.
Also, they don't get the CL increases. These could still be gained from the various prestige classes available for the marks, but should probably be given as a gratuitous bonus tagged into some of the feats.