Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 3075851" data-attributes="member: 1645"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=159054" target="_blank">Voila</a>: I don't use a specific race to reflect the "Dunadan" idea - I use the PHB Bard class and limit it to humans from one specific culture. For bards who are spellsingers, loremasters, and travelling troubadour-types, I use Monte Cook's variant bard from Eldritch Magic (the one with spellnotes, spellchords etc). The PHB Bard is instead used for a bloodline of high men and ancient chieftains who have magic running in their veins and can uplift their fellows to heights of greatness by inspiration. They don't sing, they use oratory, conviction and their innate nobility (think of Aragorn's speech at the Black Gates in the RotK movie, or of the cooler Crispin's Day speech from Henry V). Their spells are magic that is in their very blood and their lore abilities come from having been raised in the ancient traditions of a land now lost, whose influence is nevertheless still felt in many parts of the world. The class is more of a cultural artifact limited to members of a single race but it captures the feel of this kind of individual better than having a race with all sorts of powers tacked on, neccesitating unwelcome level adjustments and the like (although I agree that a modified aasimar might work well if that's the approach you took). You can rule that all members of the Dunedain have at least one level in the PHB bard class, or state that those who don't have failed to embrace their heritage, for example, and are falling into the ways of lesser men.</blockquote>

Verification