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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bykov" data-source="post: 4926338" data-attributes="member: 7636">Enslave (Su)I have broken down Enslave into (5) aspects.  The first two I think are pretty straight forward and unless there is a differing opinion, I will go with them.#1 - Resistance to Enslave - Enslave's duration is indefinite, but the target is allowed a Will save every 24 hours to attempt to break free. I do not see that 24 hour window expanding over the age categories.#2 - Similar to Dominate Person - With our choices of dominate person, dominate monster and psionic dominate, it seems that mimicking dominate person is the way to go. This also allows easy translation between a psionic and magically based creature if so desired.The other (3) aspects are Range, Creature Types Affected, and Times/Day:RangeStandard is 30'. As with the ecology article, this range expands with the greater aboleth. So sticking with 30' across the board seems restrictive. I believe that increasing 30' per category would be excessive, especially considering the Enslave ability would then extend beyond the aboleth's telepathy at higher ages. So I think the options are:A - 30' per age category and increase telepathy 50' per age category, orB - 30' + 10' per age category, giving the aboleth 40' early on and 100' at the most advanced age category.Creature Types AffectedI am thinking humanoid plus one other type per age category. This could give a common aboleth humanoid and monstrous humanoid, while a greater aboleth could have humanoid, fey, and giant and a grand ruler (category 7 in the second progression) could have humanoid, monstrous humanoid, outsiders, fey, giants, magical beasts, aberrations, and dragons.The other option would be to give a limited number at the beginning and leave it as such.  I can see applications for humanoids, monstrous humanoids, fey, giants, aberrations (not so much...but aren't skum aberrations?), and outsiders.Times/dayIn the ecology the common was at 3/day and the greater was at HD/day.  I am thinking HD/2 per day.  This would put the common at 4/day and the grand ruler at 16/day.  Or to have the start point line up it could be HD/2 minus 1 per day.The other option is to stick with 3/day but add the ability to do multiple targets at once, but I think that would be very overpowered for any monster.As always, your input is greatly appreciated Freyar (and any other lurkers out there that would care to chime in <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )Bykov.</blockquote>

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