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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 1212661" data-attributes="member: 537">This board could do with a "pimp" posticon, BTW.So, as I mention in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68363" target="_blank">this thread</a>, the Book of Exalted Deeds is the first WotC splatbook for some time that may actually see use in my game. I'm a bit "eh" on the waffly stuff about the meaning of good and evil, but the crunchy bits look nice, and I have a preference for heroic good-guy campaigns anyway.The campaign is set in the Britannia of the Ultima 4/5 CRPGs, and there is a website all about it <a href="http://www.zipworld.com.au/~hong/dnd/britannia" target="_blank">here</a>. With the setting's emphasis on virtue and enlightenment and wearing the white hat and killing horrible monsters with great gusto, you can see why I reckon the BoED fits it quite well.Background info on virtue in Britannia 3E:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are 8 virtues: Honesty, Compassion, Valor, Justice, Sacrifice, Honor, Spirituality, Humility.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Doing a special quest (or a number of quests) and generally acting in a not-evil way means you can become enlightened in one or more virtues, making you a partial avatar. You get a small powerup as a result.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gaining partial avatarhood in all 8 virtues makes you a full Avatar, and you get another powerup.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Acting in an evil way means you become a fallen Avatar.</li> </ul>Simple, isn't it? Partial avatarhood isn't meant to be super-hard to achieve, BTW, although getting all 8 virtues might take some doing.Current thoughts on how to integrate the BoED crunchy bits into Britannia 3E:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Only characters who have achieved partial avatarhood in at least one of the 8 virtues have access to any special power in the BoED (feat, spell, item enchantment, etc).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Achieving full avatarhood gains you the saint template, which I'll just rename as the Avatar template, replacing what's already on my website.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can take one BoED feat for every virtue you achieve partial avatarhood in. This means you can only have a max of 8 BoED feats (exalted or otherwise), but like 640K memory, 8 feats should be enough for anybody.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You gain access to one spell level of BoED spells for every virtue you achieve partial avatarhood in. Eg if you're a partial avatar in Honesty, you can add the 1st level spells in the BoED to your spell list. If you're a partial avatar in Honesty and Compassion, you can add the 1st and 2nd level spells to your spell list, and so on. Since there are only 8 virtues, this means you can gain access to up to 8th level spells. This suits me fine, since I ditched 9th level spells in my campaign (!).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I can't see any reason why sorcs shouldn't be able to cast sanctified spells, so now they can. Conversely, I can't see why clerics should be able to cast sanctified spells spontaneously, so now they can't.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'll probably dump the Vow of X feats. They go too far in balancing mechanics with roleplaying restrictions, which ought to be a no-no.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No fey IMC (or very few), so no Nymph's Kiss either. There are fey-like creatures who are a PC race; they're called spirit folk, and are from OA (which is another book by James Wyatt; coincidence or conspiracy?)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Britannia's cosmology doesn't feature lots of outer planes or a pantheon of individual gods, so I'll probably dump all the background info on the celestial hebdomad, Talisid and the five companions, and the court of stars. I'll still use the associated prestige classes, I'll just think up different names for them and make them agents of various aspects of virtue. I should also mention at this point that "Talisid and the Five Companions" would make not too shabby a name for a rock band.</li> </ul>Any comments on this?</blockquote>

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