Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Astral Empire: The Abh (take 2, part 2)

So: a little bit of eladrin, a little bit of dragonborn. The Abh are given a psionic attack; this is mostly because psionics and force and the Astral all go together in my head. (The Abh are not given eladrin-style teleportation because designing the architecture and customs of a teleport-capable race is a task all on its own.) If the psionic classes are primarily Charisma-powered, the +2 Wisdom should be swapped for 2 Charisma, but they're intended to be capable warlords, warlocks, or (possibly) clerics directly as written.

The froch (that's /froʃ/, rhyming with the first syllable of lotion or social), in Seikai canon, is described as a "spatial-awareness sense organ" (空識覚器官); its ability is of course a reference to the elven ability to autodetect secret doors in editions past, which is kind of weak — in both the sense of ‘a weak ability’ and the sense of ‘a weak translation from the original’.

Other tweaks considered:
  • Down: strike the Miss line from Force Majeure.
  • Down: strike the damage from Force Majeure: make it straight score vs. Fort, push 2 per tier.
  • Down: limit Force Majeure to close burst 1.
  • Down (?): replace Force Majeure with the githyanki racial power telekinetic leap.
  • Up: swipe the gith Danger Sense.
  • Up: add a daily power to determine the distance and direction to a previously visited fixed location.
  • Up: include a weapons proficiency.
  • Up: change Perception to History, and add either a Perception-bonus power or a flat bonus to passive Perception only.
(TBC, with analysis, next year...)

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