I have a skald and a gunslinger at the same table. I want the to work together, so let’s lay some ground work for them…
Bullet Time
When you get mad, the world slows. Heart beats become minutes, and you stead instead of frenzy
Prerequisite(s): rage class feature.
Benefit(s):When you enter a rage, you can choose to either gain the bonus to strength or to dexterity. The bonus is the same, and changes depending on your level.
I had a friend who wanted to have a character how had a real bad history like a shadowruner hunter for the Azzies in Shadowrun. I like the idea, but feel bad rep doesn’t go far enough. How about something new…
You Got a History
Bonus: 6 Karma per level
Some people did things that can’t get better. Some people blow up people on accident. Some poison the well and don’t look back. Well you’re looking back, and you don’t like what you find. And neither do other people. Whatever you did, your start play with 3 points of Notoriety (p. 372) per level of this quality. You can remove this using normal karma rules for buying off a quality as you do more and more good out in the community paying out your debts to society.
Thoughts?
DnD is going South, so why not have Dinomen to compliment the dinoriders!
Dinomen
Dinomen are a race of mystery and division. Dinomen come from the southern jungles, living in isolated tribes of hunter gatherers. They survive as a tribe through hard work with little contact with the outside world. They are not know for their technology, but what they do have is strong crafted stone tools. Dinomen are not are not often found ranging from their homes, but when they do find society, they do fit in well to a new group. Dinomen are know for quick growth, but their brains lag behind and even full grown dinomen standing over eight feet tall may only be as developed as a child.
The origin of the dinomen is a mystery. Some speculate that their sentience was a gift from their mother goddess and the carnivores was a bane from their dark hunter god, while others point to wizards merging men and dinosaurs to create a stronger working stock. In either case they have existed for centuries, and show no signs of going extinct any time soon.
An oddity among the dinomen is their complete lack of animal husbandry. It is not known why their groups have not domesticated other, lesser dinosaurs or other creatures. It is suspected that some dinomen might view this as slavery to their kin or that simple hunger may drive carnivores to eat all captures livestock.
The one commonality among all the dinomen is that they differ. Dinomen very from depending on the stock they derived from. Dinosaur men who were shaped from long necked, long bodied dinosaurs can stand over 10 feet tall. Dinomen who derived from raptors might stand hunched and stand less then four feet tall at the highest point. The all stand bipedal, but some have faces with too many teeth while others are slow herbivores who chew grasses constantly.
The one truth about dinomen that is common among all the veried types is their tribal nature. Each tribe of dinomen forges a close bond among all members of the troop. These people work together in socialist, egalitarian groups. However, trade between groups is looked up with suspicion as each group is unsure of the motives of the others. Carnivores follow this as well, but their harvest tend to be more grizzly than their herbivore brothers.
Dinomen among other races are rare. They function in society extremely well, but they tend to shun others as they are a naturally cautions race. They tend to prefer open jungle, so dwarven ruins and other underground races see these people even less then the surface races.
Dinomen tend to live simple lives where government is not an often considered problem. Thus these people tend to be chaotic compared to other races. They do follow traditions of their tribes, but they do not follow most laws seeing individual possession as asynchronous to survival of the tribe as a whole, thus they do not agree with most property laws.
For religion, they follow a polytheistic religion where two main gods view for dominion. These two gods have different views depending on the nature of the dinomen. Herbivors view the Grand Mother as a generator of all life and intelligence of their race, while they feel here opposite is the Dark Hunter stalking among the evil taking the good to be devoured in the dark. Carnivores see the Dark Hunter as their noble progenitor teaching intelligence as a trick to harvest more prey, and the Grand Mother the simple behemoth who and whose children must be stalked as a necessary part of the circle of life.
Dinomen who do not want the simple tribe life are always free to leave the group. This is a monumental step in an individual’s life as leaving is seen as suicide among the herbivores and being a traitor among the carnivores as they hunters now have a harder time surviving, but no one will stop this process. Those who see a wider world leave often to find new hunting grounds or more interesting places to roam.
Male Names: Thark, Nurak, Berdic, Hiore, Mioric.
Female Names: S’ssars, Ppric, Weir, Quuica, Gricss.
Ability Score Increase: Your Strength score increases by 1, and your Constitution score increases by 1.
Age: Dinomen grow quick, but develop their intelligence slowly. They walk hours mier minutes after hatching, grow to the size of a man by age 2, but are not considered adult till then reach 20 winters. They live to be around 70.
Alignment: Dinomen are creatures of instinct, and most tend to align more toward chaotic than lawful. They can be both good and evil, but their tribal, family nature makes them much more likely to settle disputes through force then arbitration.
Size: Dinomen stand taller then men, but vary depending on the type of dinosaure they came from. Some dinosaurs are hunched and stand less then four feet tall, while long necked dinomen could easily stand taller then 10 feet tall with most of their height being their necks. Your size is medium, and your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Dinosaur Toughness: Your family comes from dinosaur stock, and you evolved to survive hard attacks. Increase your armor by +1 as your has a natural armor bonus from your hide.
Tooth and Claw: Whether from your spiked tail or large teeth and claws, you are a force to be reckoned with. You are considered proficient with unarmed attacks, and your unarmed attacks do 1d4 piercing damage.
Darkvision and Colorblindness: Accustomed to running in the dark jungle, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and darkness. You can’t discern color in any situation.
Dinosaur Heritage: Your ancient ancestors had to track game or find food in the wilderness, and this ability was passed to their young. Gain proficiency in Wisdom(survival).
Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and dinosaur. You can speak a rudimentary language that most dinosaurs speak. It is a guttural language with clicks and sequels that most humans find almost impossible to speak.
You come from the dinosaurs who had to defend themselves to survive from the terrors of the dark.
Ability Score Increase: Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Herd Tactics: Gain proficiency in Strength(athletics).
You derive from a long line of solitary hunters who stalked their prey through cunning and stealth.
Ability Score Increase: Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
Herd Tactics: Gain proficiency in Dexterity(stealth).
My wife found a sword in DCC. She loves it, but maybe she shouldn’t….
Seelendieb-this is a +1 longsword of impressive sharpness that also increases the wielders strength by +4. It’s hilt is shaped like interconnected grasping hands of bone with the crossbar being a spine. It was forged by a god of death and destruction and gifted to his chosen paladin to steal life in the multiverse.
INT: 18; PERS: 16; does not possess the wielder. Wielder gains hit points equal to half damage dealt, and then the wielder then makes a Will saving throw, DC equal to hit points recovered.
Fail First Three-The sword now makes the hit point recovery feel amazing. This process is almost addictive.
Fail Next Three-The wielders alignment shifts to chaotic.
Fail Final Three-The wielder becomes a soul wraith. There is no physical change, but the character now eats souls instead of food. This is done as an action over an intelligent creature that died less than 1 turn ago. The character can also consume blood of intelligent creatures in place of souls. The character heals damage as if they has used lay on hands on themselves using their own attributes if they drink blood. The character can no longer heal hit points as normal, but may be healed by a cleric of a neutral or chaotic deity. Healing from a Lawful cleric harms the character, but the character is allowed a Will save to prevent the healing, DC equal to amount that would the dealt as damage. The character’s title shifts as follows depending on the level:
1-Thrall
2-Damphyr
3-Aufhocker
4-Vampire
5-Dracul
I was about to convert shadow bolts for DnD 5e, but shadow evocation does not exist for DnD 5e! Let’s fix that!
Shadow Evocation
5th-level illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: see text
Components: see text
Duration: see text
You pull concentrated shadow from the plane of negative energy and throw it with your will as an imposter evocation spell. When you cast this spell, choose an evocation spell of level 4 or lower. This spell mimics that spell cast at the lowest level spell slot it is able, except the spell is now disbelieved with a Will saving throw instead of either a different saving throw or spell attack roll. If the original spell required multiple attacks or saves such as magic missile or scorching ray , each attack requires its own save.
At higher levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, you may choose to increase the effective level of the copied spell by one or choose to cast a one level higher evocation spell for each slot level above 5th.
What if Shadow Evocation and Magic Missile had a baby….
Shadow Bolts
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School illusion (shadow) [shadow]; Level bloodrager 1, magus 1, sorcerer/wizard 1 CASTING Casting Time 1 standard action EFFECT Range medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) |
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You tap energy from the Plane of Shadow to cast a quasi-real, illusory version of magic missile. The spell functions exactly as magic missile casted by a character of your level for all effects and damage except all affected creature can attempt to disbelieve via success on a Will save. Each disbelieving creature takes no damage. If the spell is believed, then the target may react as if under magic missile attack, but effects such as the shield spell are expended without stopping the effect.
How about some shadowrun fun?
Basic Errors
Bonus: 5 Karma
Some people are good at the hard stuff, but choke when they get simple. A character with Basic Errors suffers no penalties to clutch actions, but attempting to do an action when unhurried such as driving on easy roads or doing a simple computer search for dinner must attempt an edge check. If if the character does not get three successes, then the character fails the simple action resulting in a critical glitch. How often this occurs is up to the GM, but should not occur more than twice per session.
Thoughts?
We’re back from our break. Let’s get running!
Fizzy Bomb
Prerequisite: Alchemist 4
Benefit: The alchemist gains the ability make directional blasting bombs. When using a bomb, the alchemist can shake the bomb and release the contents in a 15-foot cone with its base at the alchemist feet. Creatures in the area must make a reflex saving throw to avoid attack with no damage done to any creature that succeeds at its saving throw.
Thoughts?
Let’s move onto the active skills in Shadowrun
Muscle Memory
(Mental)
Type: M Range: Self
Duration: S Drain: F+1
Coach
(Mental)
Type: M Range: T
Duration: S Drain: F + 3
You know Kung-Fu. When you cast this spell, you can choose one active skill and you gain temporary ranks in the skill for as long as you sustain the spell. Muscle Memory focuses the spell on yourself, and Coach is the same spell focuses on another individual in range.
Thoughts?
How about being able to learn quick with a spell?
Quick Learner
(Mental)
Type: M Range: Self
Duration: S Drain: F
Fast Teacher
(Mental)
Type: M Range: LOS
Duration: S Drain: F + 1
Sometimes you got to learn quick or you end up dead fast. When you cast this spell, you can choose one knowledge skill and you gain temporary ranks in the skill for as long as you sustain the spell. Quick learner focuses the spell on yourself, and Fast Teacher is the same spell focuses on another individual in range.
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