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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3594502" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p>[SBLOCK=Lasair]Idea! Lasair talks a lot about measuring people's mettle by reading their <em>ziivash</em>, but right now, it's just flavour-text on her Sense Motive. How about a rare <em>ziivash</em> focus crystal that aids her in taking a person's measure by reading their <em>ziivash</em>, sort of like an aura reading. It's fooled by anything that stops detections, and really it's just a more fun and flavourful version of the Detect cantrips/1st-levels (but it gives more colourful details while not necessarily saying 'good' or 'evil' in black and white--Lasair has to decide that from what is given). It's basically a way for her to get any weird 'aura' type clues that a GM might want to throw in and to measure a person's strength of character. Perhaps if she spends the concentration to use the focus crystal to read the <em>ziivash</em>, she might also get a +1 or +2 circumstance bonus to the DC of Telepaty powers against that person--that's the flavour I've always had for Lasair, that she can read and manipulate the <em>ziivash</em> that flows through every living thing (and leaves a gaping numbing void where there are undead!). This item would be well-within Lasair's means, I think--even if we are to consider the overpriced Psionatrix of Telepathy as a baseline (which seems silly anyway), in raw power, getting +1 or +2 to Telepathy DC without spending an action is vastly more useful than having to spend one round to get a +1 (or +2) to DC and then using a power (because you could just use the power twice in a row and have a much much higher chance of it working unless you're fighting something ridiculous that saves normally exactly on a 20, which is an edge case anyway), so the only real purpose would be for flavour. I'd price the +2 DC version at maybe 2000 (that's the price for a continuous use 1st-level spell or power, and this isn't as good as that). </p><p></p><p>Tell me what you think and let me know if you have any better ideas along this vein![/SBLOCK]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3594502, member: 29014"] [SBLOCK=Lasair]Idea! Lasair talks a lot about measuring people's mettle by reading their [I]ziivash[/I], but right now, it's just flavour-text on her Sense Motive. How about a rare [I]ziivash[/I] focus crystal that aids her in taking a person's measure by reading their [I]ziivash[/I], sort of like an aura reading. It's fooled by anything that stops detections, and really it's just a more fun and flavourful version of the Detect cantrips/1st-levels (but it gives more colourful details while not necessarily saying 'good' or 'evil' in black and white--Lasair has to decide that from what is given). It's basically a way for her to get any weird 'aura' type clues that a GM might want to throw in and to measure a person's strength of character. Perhaps if she spends the concentration to use the focus crystal to read the [I]ziivash[/I], she might also get a +1 or +2 circumstance bonus to the DC of Telepaty powers against that person--that's the flavour I've always had for Lasair, that she can read and manipulate the [I]ziivash[/I] that flows through every living thing (and leaves a gaping numbing void where there are undead!). This item would be well-within Lasair's means, I think--even if we are to consider the overpriced Psionatrix of Telepathy as a baseline (which seems silly anyway), in raw power, getting +1 or +2 to Telepathy DC without spending an action is vastly more useful than having to spend one round to get a +1 (or +2) to DC and then using a power (because you could just use the power twice in a row and have a much much higher chance of it working unless you're fighting something ridiculous that saves normally exactly on a 20, which is an edge case anyway), so the only real purpose would be for flavour. I'd price the +2 DC version at maybe 2000 (that's the price for a continuous use 1st-level spell or power, and this isn't as good as that). Tell me what you think and let me know if you have any better ideas along this vein![/SBLOCK] [/QUOTE]
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