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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6369128" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>When I was thinking about how I'd do dragonmarks, my conclusion was similar. I wouldn't create new Backgrounds themselves, I used the same ones already in the book... but I did make a new Feature called Favored In House, which replaced the feature of whatever Background you were using to symbolize the House you were in. So if you wanted to be a Sentinel Marshal, you would still use the Soldier Background, but then replace the feature with Favored In House-- being a prominent member of a dragonmark house and all the privileges that provides.</p><p></p><p>Then for the marks themselves... I was going to basically commandeer the Magic Initiate feat and use it for dragonmarks only. So if you wanted a dragonmark, you gained the three abilities that came with that feat-- two cantrips and a 1st level spell usable once per long rest. I'd probably go ahead and pre-select the three spells for each of the dragonmarks in the book, making sure they all worked well and hopefully matched several of the spells that were in the 3E Eberron campaign setting book for Least dragonmarks.</p><p></p><p>I didn't go much further than that with it... but I figured in my head that if players eventually wanted to get a Lesser and then Greater dragonmarks, I'd probably have them cost another feat... which would be something along the lines of having a prerequisite of level 8 for a Lesser mark, but which makes the 1st level spell you already have now usable once every short rest, and you gain a 4th level spell usable once every long rest. Then at level 16 you could use a feat to take the Greater mark, the 1st level spell becomes at-will, the 4th level becomes once a short rest, and you gain a 7th level spell usable every long rest.</p><p></p><p>But then I ended up deciding to set my campaign in the Forgotten Realms and promptly stopped worrying about it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6369128, member: 7006"] When I was thinking about how I'd do dragonmarks, my conclusion was similar. I wouldn't create new Backgrounds themselves, I used the same ones already in the book... but I did make a new Feature called Favored In House, which replaced the feature of whatever Background you were using to symbolize the House you were in. So if you wanted to be a Sentinel Marshal, you would still use the Soldier Background, but then replace the feature with Favored In House-- being a prominent member of a dragonmark house and all the privileges that provides. Then for the marks themselves... I was going to basically commandeer the Magic Initiate feat and use it for dragonmarks only. So if you wanted a dragonmark, you gained the three abilities that came with that feat-- two cantrips and a 1st level spell usable once per long rest. I'd probably go ahead and pre-select the three spells for each of the dragonmarks in the book, making sure they all worked well and hopefully matched several of the spells that were in the 3E Eberron campaign setting book for Least dragonmarks. I didn't go much further than that with it... but I figured in my head that if players eventually wanted to get a Lesser and then Greater dragonmarks, I'd probably have them cost another feat... which would be something along the lines of having a prerequisite of level 8 for a Lesser mark, but which makes the 1st level spell you already have now usable once every short rest, and you gain a 4th level spell usable once every long rest. Then at level 16 you could use a feat to take the Greater mark, the 1st level spell becomes at-will, the 4th level becomes once a short rest, and you gain a 7th level spell usable every long rest. But then I ended up deciding to set my campaign in the Forgotten Realms and promptly stopped worrying about it. ;) [/QUOTE]
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