Ambiguously Gendered Child of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Rystil Arden]

Ah, hm. Extra Power is a nice feat, I'm guessing. I'm only familiar with 3.0 Psions; I haven't had a chance to play Psions in 3.5 yet. I'm guessing Attraction isn't more useful? What races are your dudes?

You're right. Attraction is completely useless in combat (it even states that they won't break off combat to pursue the Attraction) but it can give me a +4 to all Charisma-based checks against them (and Lasair already has +9 to Diplomacy, so with Attraction and the synergy coming her way next level, she will have +19 to Diplomacy at level 2). Lasair is a human and Zaeryl is an Elan (which means he can pay PsP as an Immediate action to instantly negate 2 damage, hopefully saving his pathetic life )

 

[Jdvn1]

You're right. Attraction is completely useless in combat (it even states that they won't break off combat to pursue the Attraction) but it can give me a +4 to all Charisma-based checks against them (and Lasair already has +9 to Diplomacy, so with Attraction and the synergy coming her way next level, she will have +19 to Diplomacy at level 2). Lasair is a human and Zaeryl is an Elan (which means he can pay PsP as an Immediate action to instantly negate 2 damage, hopefully saving his pathetic life )

Very nice. I guess you can't wait to level a couple times... Zaeryl probably has a better chance of living, anyway, because of Astral Construct. Lasair is probably better at getting out of bad social situations too ("Oh, you don't want to arrest me...")

 

[Rystil Arden]

Very nice. I guess you can't wait to level a couple times... Zaeryl probably has a better chance of living, anyway, because of Astral Construct. Lasair is probably better at getting out of bad social situations too ("Oh, you don't want to arrest me...")

Exactly! Whereas gruff guards who weren't going to arrest Zaeryl who walked past him on the street (Unfriendly) are 30% likely to decide to attack and decide to arrest him just because he seems...wrong

 

[Jdvn1]

Exactly! Whereas gruff guards who weren't going to arrest Zaeryl who walked past him on the street (Unfriendly) are 30% likely to decide to attack and decide to arrest him just because he seems...wrong

You have to find an appropriate game, though. The LEW game I just started is "go to dungeon, fight things." The first LEW I was in (that died) was "go to city, scope out a place, do social stuff, run away."

 

[Rystil Arden]

You have to find an appropriate game, though. The LEW game I just started is "go to dungeon, fight things." The first LEW I was in (that died) was "go to city, scope out a place, do social stuff, run away."

Yup, I figured the types of game ran gamut, that's why I made the two characters, so now I have one character that can play in each style of game, even though they seem superficially similar (because they share two powers in common).

 

[Jdvn1]

Elan is +0 LA, right? And you know you have to post your characters and email the dudes, right?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Elan is +0 LA, right? And you know you have to post your characters and email the dudes, right?

Yup, Elan is +0 LA. And I know I have to do that, but I need to make compelling histories for them first, which I have yet to do but I'm currently working on it (I got drained out making a 5-page history for my most recent character, a level 2 Enchanter in another game where I can use my extra supplements with spells, yay!)

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, the approval is just for the stats. My last character I was making kind of quick (there was a game starting up soon) and I didn't have a background or appearance for him until a week after I submitted him.

Not there's a rush now but.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, the approval is just for the stats. My last character I was making kind of quick (there was a game starting up soon) and I didn't have a background or appearance for him until a week after I submitted him.

Not there's a rush now but.

Oh, okay. I thought that I was supposed to be completely done with the history and such before submitting. One other thing: Elans were once human. I know our characters can never meet, but would they care if my Telepath was related to the human that the Shaper once was?

 

[Jdvn1]

Some people don't put much effort into histories either. I think they're there mostly for people to get an idea of who your character is and where he came from. They don't actually affect anything, though, and GMs are specifically not allowed to use people's backgrounds without permission.

I'd... guess the judges wouldn't care. One reason they can't meet is to avoid sharing items (my dude has 3x normal gold!), and to avoid cheesy roleplaying. Since it's in far past, they probably wouldn't care unless you wanted them to meet sometime in the future. I'd ask on the Discussion thread or ask the character approval judges, who might tell you to bring it up in the Discussion thread.