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Homebrew and House Rules (D&D) / God-Touched Templates
« on: December 14, 2011, 02:16:12 PM »
I'm working on making a template for each god in the theme of the Lolth-Touched template. I want them all to be of closely equivalent power and to fit their gods as much as possible (Lolth's is actually really good for spiders specifically).

Critiques are welcome, although as with a lot of homebrew it's often difficult to justify edits because most critiques end up feeling theoretical (Because unlike published official material, this stuff isn't getting play-tested regularly). Hextor's template, for example, used to be +10 to opposed checks and in the original thread people posted both that +10 was not that impressive and that +10 was too good. I dropped it to +6 because the stat bonuses are still solid for +1 LA, but the point of the example was to illustrate the difficulty in estimating the power of a lot of homebrew.


God-Touched Templates

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Finally got around to transferring them over! A friend pointed out that one of the balances on Lolth-Touched is that it is highly race-specific and Drow suck so badly already. Without disagreeing with either of his points, I will still mostly ignore them.

I will agree that someone who wears a God-Touched template should have always either gained the favor of the respective god or spend a lot of time and effort trying to do so. Most campaigns will only make the "trying to do so" possible, since the gods won't directly intervene and they won't always be the ones you worship, but in one campaign I've played we actually dealt with aspects who rewarded us with templates (Thus the "gained the favor of" option). The point is that you don't allow people to ignore the implications of their template. If you want a god-touched template, you had better get on board with that god's agenda. If you aren't willing to do so, your GM shouldn't allow you to have it.

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Introduce Yourself / Bloody Initiation
« on: December 02, 2011, 01:29:36 AM »
I finally put the effort forth to register over here. Shame about the old boards, not only did I like the name, but it's also just a pain to lose stuff like that. It's especially painful when you view most of what you write as brilliant and therefore a shame to lose, if not easy to justify transferring.

Weird that I could see more of the boards before I registered than I can now that I have. As astoundingly rhapsodic as most of what I wrote obviously was, I'm afraid most of it will just be lost.

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