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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1705550" data-attributes="member: 4910"><p>Heh, my group actually had a character that was like that when we ran thru the DMs GURPS conversion of Dragon Mountain - one of the PCs was a monk basically, who looked like an elf. In actuality he was a silver dragon. Sorta. His backstory ran something along the lines of his mother was a silver dragon that secretly protected this one elven community without the elves being any the wiser. She and her mate spend alot of their time in elf form, and she falls pregnant during such. Fast forward a while, she's nearing the end of her term and some big bad villian type attacks. She and her mate leap to the defense of the town - she's about half-way thru her shapechange back into a silver dragon when the bad guy blasts her dead on in the chest with some big juju, killing her. Mate sees her die, loses it, and ends up sacrificing his own life purposefully to defeat the baddie. Ho-hum, so tragic. Anyway. One of the pair's confidants and friends knows the female was with child and goes to see if the baby can be saved. Which he can.. but he's not... right. His body is still half way between being an elf and being a silver dragon, and his body doesn't have his mother's echo to copy from any more. His body isn't working properly, he's only viable by the loosest possible definition and he's going to die. In response, the elves do some kind of magic to him that binds him in elven form and keeps him stable, and that's how he grows up. Looks like an elf, quacks like an elf, but isn't like the other elves in certain fundamental ways.</p><p></p><p>The spells that kept him working right, were basically permanant but they still needed mana to keep going. Step into an antimagic field and all of a sudden they stop working until he would leave the field and they could be fueled again. Any time he was in a no-magic area, he would essentially take 1 point of Con damage per round until he would hit 0 Con and die. Once out of the no-magic area, he would recover Con at the same rate that anyone else would, which is to say not quickly at all. He <em>needed</em> mana to survive, even moreso than a fish needs water, because his body was just utterly unfit to deal with itself unaided.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 1705550, member: 4910"] Heh, my group actually had a character that was like that when we ran thru the DMs GURPS conversion of Dragon Mountain - one of the PCs was a monk basically, who looked like an elf. In actuality he was a silver dragon. Sorta. His backstory ran something along the lines of his mother was a silver dragon that secretly protected this one elven community without the elves being any the wiser. She and her mate spend alot of their time in elf form, and she falls pregnant during such. Fast forward a while, she's nearing the end of her term and some big bad villian type attacks. She and her mate leap to the defense of the town - she's about half-way thru her shapechange back into a silver dragon when the bad guy blasts her dead on in the chest with some big juju, killing her. Mate sees her die, loses it, and ends up sacrificing his own life purposefully to defeat the baddie. Ho-hum, so tragic. Anyway. One of the pair's confidants and friends knows the female was with child and goes to see if the baby can be saved. Which he can.. but he's not... right. His body is still half way between being an elf and being a silver dragon, and his body doesn't have his mother's echo to copy from any more. His body isn't working properly, he's only viable by the loosest possible definition and he's going to die. In response, the elves do some kind of magic to him that binds him in elven form and keeps him stable, and that's how he grows up. Looks like an elf, quacks like an elf, but isn't like the other elves in certain fundamental ways. The spells that kept him working right, were basically permanant but they still needed mana to keep going. Step into an antimagic field and all of a sudden they stop working until he would leave the field and they could be fueled again. Any time he was in a no-magic area, he would essentially take 1 point of Con damage per round until he would hit 0 Con and die. Once out of the no-magic area, he would recover Con at the same rate that anyone else would, which is to say not quickly at all. He [i]needed[/i] mana to survive, even moreso than a fish needs water, because his body was just utterly unfit to deal with itself unaided. [/QUOTE]
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