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<blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 3972183" data-attributes="member: 19083"><p>No, preserving is the norm, defilers take it to extremes <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>besides the mechanic doesn't really make that much senses per se...it drains life, but not creatures life? Nah.</p><p></p><p>I think a better way to do it for 4th ed, is to give Feats. Defiling is a personal choice, you go down the path of defiling.</p><p>-Defiling feats give metamagic effects, "free", but at the cost of life energy to *anything* around you. Something like 1hp/per spell level in a 1' radius per caster level, will save negates.</p><p></p><p>Note how in the story/boxed set it says that defilers <em>are more powerful than preservers</em>,defiling is a "cheat" it pulls in more power, but at the cost of life. Defilers wiped out nearly all the preservers because defilers ARE more powerful than their benign brothers.</p><p></p><p>So defilers are just wizards who've taken a dark path to get more power. You don't need a seperate class, and you have to accept defilers are more powerful, that's the temptation...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Warlocks should absolutely not be on Athas! Much as I llike the class, magic is <em>very </em> rare on Athas, apart from elemental clerics. Warlocks, like monks, would break the paradigmns of the setting: unrestricted casting. </p><p></p><p>Folk who embrace the elemental focus, including destruction, are clerics, though they are often not "Priests" in the normal way...they live their way rather than preach, be it a stone mason, an insane pyromanica or whatever.</p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverblade The Ench, post: 3972183, member: 19083"] No, preserving is the norm, defilers take it to extremes :) besides the mechanic doesn't really make that much senses per se...it drains life, but not creatures life? Nah. I think a better way to do it for 4th ed, is to give Feats. Defiling is a personal choice, you go down the path of defiling. -Defiling feats give metamagic effects, "free", but at the cost of life energy to *anything* around you. Something like 1hp/per spell level in a 1' radius per caster level, will save negates. Note how in the story/boxed set it says that defilers [I]are more powerful than preservers[/I],defiling is a "cheat" it pulls in more power, but at the cost of life. Defilers wiped out nearly all the preservers because defilers ARE more powerful than their benign brothers. So defilers are just wizards who've taken a dark path to get more power. You don't need a seperate class, and you have to accept defilers are more powerful, that's the temptation... Warlocks should absolutely not be on Athas! Much as I llike the class, magic is [I]very [/I] rare on Athas, apart from elemental clerics. Warlocks, like monks, would break the paradigmns of the setting: unrestricted casting. Folk who embrace the elemental focus, including destruction, are clerics, though they are often not "Priests" in the normal way...they live their way rather than preach, be it a stone mason, an insane pyromanica or whatever. :) [/QUOTE]
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