Min/Max Boards

Being magical affords items some protections over mundane. Animated and haunt shifted items are probably less likely to be damaged due to being able to move on their own.

People are still arguing in my other thread that the fact that you gain some racial features and lose some racial features means that you are changing race...

I don't even know what to say to that... you are keeping far more original racial features than you are gaining new ones... and far better ones at that.

It's like the dnd equivalent of the ship of theseus.

It seems the rules of the game article answers this question by example... listing both the before and after alter self stat block for their sorcerer.

Anlion (Normal Form): Male half-elf  sorcerer 4; CR 4; Medium humanoid; HD 4d4; hp 10; Init +2; Spd 30 ft.; AC 13, touch 12, flat-footed 11; Base Atk +2; Grp +1; Atk +1 melee (1d6-1, quarterstaff) or +5 ranged (1d8/19-20, masterwork light crossbow); Full Atk +1 melee (1d6-1, quarterstaff) or +5 ranged (1d8/19-20, masterwork light crossbow); SQ half-elf traits, low-light vision; AL N; SV Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +5; Str 8, Dex 14, Con 11, Int 12, Wis 10, Cha 16.

Anlion (Lizardfolk Form): Male half-elf sorcerer 4; CR 4; Medium humanoid (half-elf, reptilian); HD 4d4; hp 10; Init +2; Spd 30 ft.; AC 18, touch 12, flat-footed 16; Base Atk +2; Grp +1; Atk +1 melee (1d4-1, claw) or +1 melee (1d6-1, quarterstaff) or +5 ranged (1d8/19-20, masterwork light crossbow); Full Atk +1 melee (1d4-1, 2 claws) and -4 melee (1d4-1 bite), or +1 melee (1d6-1, quarterstaff) and -4 melee (1d4-1 bite), or +5 ranged (1d8/19-20, masterwork light crossbow); SQ half-elf traits, hold breath, low-light vision; AL N; SV Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +5; Str 8, Dex 14, Con 11, Int 12, Wis 10, Cha 16.

I use a generic form of owod that is sort of homebrewed. I made custom character sheets and all. Basically I wanted to play a game like owod mage or vampire but with normalish humans that might have some special abilities.

Basically I stripped out most of the setting specific stuff and used the rules for actions and things. I let my players spend the freebie points I gave them to buy 1 ability from any owod book (subject to approval naturally) that they could afford.



I say, if you like owod, just use owod and pull out the things you don't want. Slap in things you need. owod especially is good for this kind of thing because it's so light weight. You don't have to worry about things like balancing encounters and CRs and things like that. Just a relatively simple ruleset for actions at it's base, especially if you already know it.