Corlon
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In my campaign, the characters are generally teleporting all over the place, sometimes in the open, sometimes assaulting deep underground, so when one of my player's got a paladin cohort, I wanted him to actually have something useful instead of the mount.
I've heard of this summon mount ability alternative somewhere...but I'm not sure where, so I figured I'd come up with a new ability.
The idea I came up wiht was an intelligent sword. It's lawful good and wants to destroy all chaotic evil things (the cliche paladin if you will.) Looking at the paladin mount upgrade via level chart, and the different levels of intelligent items, I realized that the intelligent items chart has exactly twice as many levels as the paladin mount chart has upgrades.
So I figure start at 1 or 2, and every upgrade upgrades the intelligent item two levels. Everything is rolled randomly, except for the specific purpose. This gets better as level increases, as it has seemed to me that the mount gets less important as level increases.
We didn't really get to test out the power as right after the cleric got this cohort they assaulted a dragon's lair without too much of a plan and the entire party except for the wizard's cohort were sumerely destroyed (tricky dragons
).
So the questions are, would you change the upgrade process, is it too powerful, not powerful enough?
A dumb idea? a cool idea?
comments, questions, whatever.
I've heard of this summon mount ability alternative somewhere...but I'm not sure where, so I figured I'd come up with a new ability.
The idea I came up wiht was an intelligent sword. It's lawful good and wants to destroy all chaotic evil things (the cliche paladin if you will.) Looking at the paladin mount upgrade via level chart, and the different levels of intelligent items, I realized that the intelligent items chart has exactly twice as many levels as the paladin mount chart has upgrades.
So I figure start at 1 or 2, and every upgrade upgrades the intelligent item two levels. Everything is rolled randomly, except for the specific purpose. This gets better as level increases, as it has seemed to me that the mount gets less important as level increases.
We didn't really get to test out the power as right after the cleric got this cohort they assaulted a dragon's lair without too much of a plan and the entire party except for the wizard's cohort were sumerely destroyed (tricky dragons
![Devious :] :]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png)
So the questions are, would you change the upgrade process, is it too powerful, not powerful enough?
A dumb idea? a cool idea?
comments, questions, whatever.