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<blockquote data-quote="Moonsword" data-source="post: 792646" data-attributes="member: 7174"><p>Okay, let me state the exact reason I'm trying to match energy types to the templates: gmae balance. I'mtrying to make these as one-size-fits-all and quick as the clestial/fiendish templates are. More detailed forms and more powerful ones can be saved for situaitons. Developing them will be easier once we have the general form of the 'generic' template down.</p><p></p><p>I guess the quick-and-dirty solution is to just say 'pick two energy types' for chaos to represent the sheer randomness of chaotic energy and pick the two energy forms you like for Order, make a note, and use 'em in that campaign. How's that?</p><p></p><p>As for names, I _like_ anarchs for just that association. Since when to common names have to be dead on accurate? Most peasants, who are the ones likliest to use the 'common' name, don't give a flip about accurate sterotypes. A more formal term can be used for them in polite, educated speech, but 'Anarchs' for chaotic springs right to mind. It's one of the easiest names to remember, in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>A note on Symmetrions: They don't have to be perfectly symmetric in all dimensions. But color and exact placement of limbs in exatly the same spot from an angle perpindicular to the body _is_ important. Even as highly-evolved creatures as humans have diferent sized limbs, body parts, etc. on the same body. One foot is smaller than the other. We're technically symmetric from a biological standpoint, at least on the outside. A symmetrion would be _perfectly_ symmetric, inside and out. All organs are mirror-images of each other or else they're split right down the middle. The lines of the creature are more perfect and defined, as well. I imagine trying to desvribe the neuroscience involved would drive a brain surgeon nuts, but fortunately we have magic to fall back on. A side consequence of this perfect symmetry is that symmetrions are <em>always</em> ambidextrous or multidextrous and gain the appropriate feat for free.</p><p></p><p>Good or bad?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moonsword, post: 792646, member: 7174"] Okay, let me state the exact reason I'm trying to match energy types to the templates: gmae balance. I'mtrying to make these as one-size-fits-all and quick as the clestial/fiendish templates are. More detailed forms and more powerful ones can be saved for situaitons. Developing them will be easier once we have the general form of the 'generic' template down. I guess the quick-and-dirty solution is to just say 'pick two energy types' for chaos to represent the sheer randomness of chaotic energy and pick the two energy forms you like for Order, make a note, and use 'em in that campaign. How's that? As for names, I _like_ anarchs for just that association. Since when to common names have to be dead on accurate? Most peasants, who are the ones likliest to use the 'common' name, don't give a flip about accurate sterotypes. A more formal term can be used for them in polite, educated speech, but 'Anarchs' for chaotic springs right to mind. It's one of the easiest names to remember, in my opinion. A note on Symmetrions: They don't have to be perfectly symmetric in all dimensions. But color and exact placement of limbs in exatly the same spot from an angle perpindicular to the body _is_ important. Even as highly-evolved creatures as humans have diferent sized limbs, body parts, etc. on the same body. One foot is smaller than the other. We're technically symmetric from a biological standpoint, at least on the outside. A symmetrion would be _perfectly_ symmetric, inside and out. All organs are mirror-images of each other or else they're split right down the middle. The lines of the creature are more perfect and defined, as well. I imagine trying to desvribe the neuroscience involved would drive a brain surgeon nuts, but fortunately we have magic to fall back on. A side consequence of this perfect symmetry is that symmetrions are [I]always[/I] ambidextrous or multidextrous and gain the appropriate feat for free. Good or bad? [/QUOTE]
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